Schwules Museum - Aktuelle Ausstellung

05.10.2010 - 22.11.2010

Sadie Lee and Martina Minette Dreier.
Two positions of contemporary portraiture

Opening: Mo., 4. Oktober 2010, 19 Uhr

Where: Gay Museum, ground floor (entrance 1st court yard)
Mehringdamm 61, 10961 Berlin (three steps, only partially accessible by wheel chair)

Duration: 5 October – 22 November 2010

Martina Minette Dreier: Harry, Öl auf Leinwand

Sadie Lee: Dressing I (Holly Woodlawn), Öl auf Leinwand

The Berlin woman painter Martina Minette Dreier paints portraits of people for whom the bipolar world of genders is too narrow and who are not able to or don’t want to define themselves exclusively as man or woman, among them are also personalities of the scene such as Ades Zabel, Océan LeRoy, Miss Debra Kate or the Spicy Tigers on Speed. Since 2004 the serial with the title “doing gender” came into existence, which meanwhile consists of 49 pictures and almost 500 sketches. The artist describes her intention as follows: She wants to comment on the tradition of classic portrait painting which formulates the “claim of the portrayed person on a position in society”. At the same time they want to make use of this tradition to confer the “dignity” on the portrayed “gender outlaws”, which they very often don’t receive.
We exhibit a selection from the project together with the portraits from the serial “And then he was a She” by the London woman painter Sadie Lee. She portrayed the Drag performer Holly Woodlawn, who was born in 1946 and who is one of the last members of the “Warhol Superstars” still alive and who became famous because of her performances in Warhol cult films such as “Trash” and “Women in Revolt”, in that privacy of her own homes and having absolutely nothing to do with their stardom. However, the pictures don’t show any accidental, i.e. documentary scenes, they are rather posed by the artist as well as by the model. “I wanted to paint her as she is now” Sadie Lee says. A “study of the representation of the ageing body, and the ambiguity of gender” came into existence.

Sadie Lee: Close-Up II. 2007, Öl auf Leinwand, 61 x 61 cm

Sadie Lee: Dressing III. 2007, Öl auf Leinwand, 122 x 91,5 cm

Supporting programme to the exhibition:
Public guidances by the exhibition with curator Michael Fürst and Birgit Bosold

Appointment:
Monday, 8th of November, 2010, 7.00 pm

Other appointments for group guidances please ask for:
Tel. 69 59 90 50 or kontakt@schwulesmuseum.de

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Current Exhibition deutsch
05.10.2010 - 22.11.2010 Gender_Gap Sadie Lee and Martina Minette Dreier. Two positions of contemporary portraiture Opening: Mo., 4. Oktober 2010, 19 Uhr Where: Gay Museum, ground floor (entrance 1st court yard) Mehringdamm 61, 10961 Berlin (three steps, only partially accessible by wheel chair) Duration: 5 October – 22 November 2010
Martina Minette Dreier: Harry, Öl auf Leinwand Sadie Lee: Dressing I (Holly Woodlawn), Öl auf Leinwand	The Berlin woman painter Martina Minette Dreier paints portraits of people for whom the bipolar world of genders is too narrow and who are not able to or don’t want to define themselves exclusively as man or woman, among them are also personalities of the scene such as Ades Zabel, Océan LeRoy, Miss Debra Kate or the Spicy Tigers on Speed. Since 2004 the serial with the title “doing gender” came into existence, which meanwhile consists of 49 pictures and almost 500 sketches. The artist describes her intention as follows: She wants to comment on the tradition of classic portrait painting which formulates the “claim of the portrayed person on a position in society”. At the same time they want to make use of this tradition to confer the “dignity” on the portrayed “gender outlaws”, which they very often don’t receive. We exhibit a selection from the project together with the portraits from the serial “And then he was a She” by the London woman painter Sadie Lee. She portrayed the Drag performer Holly Woodlawn, who was born in 1946 and who is one of the last members of the “Warhol Superstars” still alive and who became famous because of her performances in Warhol cult films such as “Trash” and “Women in Revolt”, in that privacy of her own homes and having absolutely nothing to do with their stardom. However, the pictures don’t show any accidental, i.e. documentary scenes, they are rather posed by the artist as well as by the model. “I wanted to paint her as she is now” Sadie Lee says. A “study of the representation of the ageing body, and the ambiguity of gender” came into existence.
Sadie Lee: Close-Up II. 2007, Öl auf Leinwand, 61 x 61 cm Sadie Lee: Dressing III. 2007, Öl auf Leinwand, 122 x 91,5 cm	Supporting programme to the exhibition: Public guidances by the exhibition with curator Michael Fürst and Birgit Bosold Appointment: Monday, 8th of November, 2010, 7.00 pm Other appointments for group guidances please ask for: Tel. 69 59 90 50 or kontakt@schwulesmuseum.de



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