Dorothy IANNONE
Dorothy Iannone's artistic project has a profoundly autobiographical, spiritual, and political dimension. The eccentricity of her nude characters is an ode to gender equality and sexual freedom.
During the Private Choice 2024 edition, her wool and cotton tufted tapestry named I don’t want to be D, will be presented, featuring a naked young woman riding a chimera. Amidst bright and bloody colors, the muse with hieratic power bears the title of the work on her thigh. This edition of 20 copies (+ 5 artist's proofs) is made possible through the association with WE DO NOT WORK ALONE.
Biography
The American artist was born in Boston in 1933 and passed away in Berlin in 2022. A graduate of Boston University in 1957 with a degree in American Literature, Dorothy Iannone pursued advanced studies in English Literature at Brandeis University. In 1958, she married the painter James Upham and moved to New York. In 1959, she began to paint. In late 2019, the Centre Pompidou dedicated a monographic exhibition to her entitled « Dorothy Iannone, Always Audacious ».
« Inversions abound in Iannone's work, whether through the inversion (and fusion) of the masculine and feminine, the muse and the creator, the sacred and the profane, the celestial and the carnal, submission and domination, compliment and insult, humor and seriousness. Nothing is quite what it seems to be, or entirely one thing or the other. »
These words by Lisa Pearson regarding Dorothy Iannone's work shed light on the collaboration conducted since 2018 and initiated by the design of the Forever True lamp.