Sotto la maschera

by Guerrilla Girls

Le Guerrilla Girls sono un collettivo artistico femminista. Nate come «coscienza del mondo dell’arte», si battono contro ogni forma di sessismo e razzismo. Le Guerrilla Girls praticano interferenza culturale creando poster, adesivi, libri, azioni e conferenze, per contrastare la discriminazione con sarcasmo e dati inoppugnabili. In pubblico si presentano con il volto coperto da maschere da gorilla e nomi di artiste del passato, affinché il loro messaggio emerga chiaramente, a prescindere dalle identità personali. Questo volume ripercorre la storia delle Guerrilla Girls attraverso un’intervista rilasciata nel 2008 da due fondatrici, note con gli pseudonimi di Frida Kahlo e Käthe Kollwitz.

Genres: Art

128 pages, Paperback

Published August 23, 2018

About the author

The Guerrilla Girls are feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. We use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art, film and pop culture. We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative in visual culture by revealing the understory, the subtext, the forgotten, the overlooked, the understated and the downright unfair. Our work has been passed around the world by our tireless supporters, who use us as a model for doing their own crazy kind of activism.

In the last few years, the Guerrilla Girls have appeared at over 100 universities and museums around the world. We created a large scale installation for the Venice Biennale, brainstormed with Greenpeace, and participated in Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women Campaign in the UK. In 2006, we unveiled our latest anti-film industry billboard in Hollywood just in time for the Oscars, appeared at the Tate Modern, London, and created large scale projects for Istanbul and Mexico City. In 2007 we dissed the Museum of Modern Art at its own Feminist Futures Symposium, examined the museums of Washington DC in a full page in the Washington Post, and exhibited large-scale posters and banners in Athens, Rotterdam, Bilbao, Sarajevo, Belgrade and Shanghai. In 2008-9, we did actions at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, Los Angeles, Bronx Museum, New York, Ireland and Montreal.

The Guerrilla Girls’ work has appeared in The New York Times, The London Times, The New Yorker, and Bitch; on NPR, the BBC and the CBC; and in many art and feminist texts. We are the authors of stickers, billboards, posters and other projects, and several books including The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book. Our latest book, The Guerrilla Girls' Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How it Was Cured, from Ancient times Until Now, will be published in 2010.

(From http://www.guerrillagirls.com/press/o...)