Carolee Schneemann's 'Forbidden Actions-Museum Window' at FIAC 2019
Catherine Millet fictively acquires Carolee Schneemann's 'Forbidden Actions-Museum Window' (1979) at FIAC. The work is a photo-serigraph of a performance from Schneemann's 'Clandestine Performances' series, where she stripped naked and threw herself against the windows of the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands. Millet compares it to Valie Export's actions but notes Schneemann's body violently collides with the architecture from inside. The edition is available at the mfc-Michèle Didier gallery stand for €9,000 (250 copies). Schneemann, a major figure of the 1970s New York scene, died months earlier.
Key facts
- Carolee Schneemann's Forbidden Actions-Museum Window is a photo-serigraph from 1979.
- The work depicts a performance from her 'Clandestine Performances' series.
- Schneemann stripped naked and threw herself against windows of the Kröller-Müller Museum.
- The Kröller-Müller Museum is near Arnhem, Netherlands.
- The edition is sold at the mfc-Michèle Didier gallery stand at FIAC.
- Price: €9,000 for an edition of 250 copies.
- Carolee Schneemann died a few months before the article (2019).
- Catherine Millet wrote the article for artpress.
Entities
Artists
- Carolee Schneemann
- Valie Export
- Catherine Millet
Institutions
- artpress
- Galerie mfc-Michèle Didier
- FIAC
- Grand Palais
- Kröller-Müller Museum
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Arnhem
- Netherlands
Sources
- artpress —