The Women Artists Shows.Salons.Societies project was launched in 2017 as a collaboration between Artl@s and AWARE. Combining AWARE’s ambitions to restore the presence of 20th-century women artists in the history of art, and Artl@s’s desire to provide scholars with the data and tools necessary to question the canonical art historical narratives through quantitative and cartographic analyses, we decided to work on group exhibitions of women artists.
Our first ambition is to build a community of scholars and work together to develop a common terminology and even possibly a common and consistent methodology to study these events, because the ones used in the field of exhibition history are inadequate.None of these exhibitions “made art history” or can be thought as “exemplary,”and the discursive silence that surrounds them require art historians to come-up with new questions, new research strategies, and new discourses.
Through the programs we organized and will organize, and through the tools and resources we are making available to the public, including this issue of the Artl@s Bulletin, we also want to contribute to a global history of all-women exhibitions from the 1870s to the 1970s.
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Em dezembro de 1960, o Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo inaugurou a mostra “Contribuição da mulher às artes plásticas no país”. Trata-se da primeira exposição coletiva feminina de grandes dimensões ocorrida no Brasil. No entanto, mesmo tendo sido realizada numa instituição prestigiosa e agrupado artistas de renome, a mostra não teve repercussão na imprensa e não suscitou outras iniciativas semelhantes ao longo da década. Pretende-se refletir sobre o silêncio e as resistências do ambiente artístico brasileiro ao tratar das mulheres artistas enquanto coletividade, o que talvez possa explicar o impacto tardio do feminismo nesse campo.
Marina Mazze Cerchiaro, PhD student in Aesthetics and Art History at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo with a FAPESP scholarship. Her thesis focuses on the process of building the reputation of the Brazilian female sculptors from the 1940s to the 1960s who won the firsts Biennials of São Paulo (1951-1965).
Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni, Professor at the Institute of Brazilian Studies of the University of São Paulo. She is the author of several researches and publications in the area of sociology of art, in particular on the relations between art and gender in Brazil.
Talita Trizoli, PhD in Education at the University of São Paulo with a FAPESP scholarship. Her research addressed the presence of feminist issues in the works of Brazilian female artists during the 1960-1970s, and the problems of critical reception.