The excellent emission Footprints on France 5 has a documentary devoted to Annette Messager, great female personality (without being a feminist) of contemporary art. As pointed the movie title modest and public , Annette Messager is a media artist, she does not engage easily. So slowly, delicately as the film reveals the course of this highly sensitive artist since her childhood.
Annette Messager, Inflating Deflating (Inflated dégonflés) , 2005-2006 28 elements, painted parachute fabric, computerized motors
Dimensions variable
Marian Goodman Gallery
Annette Messager, articulés-désarticulés, 2002, détails © Centre Pompidou, Paris 2007, photo : André Morin
Annette Messager, Secret , 2006 Net wire 160 x 280 cm
Marian Goodman Gallery
Summary of the film: Since the early 70s, Annette Messager explores the secret regions and night of sexual identity, difficulty and freedom of being a woman in a man's world. This documentary sets out to meet this woman artist beyond feminism, yesterday ignored, now internationally recognized and acclaimed by critics and the public.
It traces his career and the themes around which she built her work: the body, the monstrosity, the floor ...
real maze of ideas and forms, this film in first person, returns to this unique work, both enchanting, grimacing and provocative ...
Author: HEINZ PETER Schwerfel
Duration: 52 minutes
Director: PETER HEINZ Schwerfel
Production: Schuch PRODUCTIONS
Participation: FRANCE TELEVISIONS
Annette Messager upsets me from the inside, just like Louise Bourgeois. His report to the body, sexuality and the unconscious pleases me. His attachment to childhood, its mixture of tenderness and cruelty, especially his bizarre touch me.
Annette Messager, modest and public is still visible a week on the site of France 5, I would strongly recommend it.
Annette Messager
