ORLAN Six Decades

€ 50.00
VAT included. Shipping costs will be calculated at checkout

Edited by: Dr. Gabriele Schor, Catherine Morris Texts by: Patricia Allmer, Elisabeth Bronfen, Sophie Duplaix, Donatien Grau, Roxana Marcoci, Catherine Millet, Camille Morineau, Catherine Morris Graphic Design: Maria-Anna Friedl German, English 2023, 304 Pages, 250 Ills. Hardcover 292mm x 240mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5432-3
| The Art of Transformation

Using her own body as raw material for her artistic practice, French artist ORLAN deconstructs the traditional iconography of the feminine. In the 1990s, ORLAN caused a sensation with surgical operations performed on her body, but it was as early as 1964, at the age of 17, that she gave birth to her artistic self. Since then, she has continuously recreated herself and keenly explored the concept of identity. In her “carnal art,” the body becomes both subject and object. This publication traverses the six decades of ORLAN’s oeuvre, revisiting her early performances in particular. One of her most recent creations is the ORLAN-OÏDE robot, and thanks to an augmented reality app, ORLAN avatars come to life and emerge from this richly illustrated volume. The political status of the body is made evident through all of her works: in 1989 she transformed Gustave Courbet’s famous painting L’origine du monde into L’origine de la guerre by replacing the vulva with the phallus. The statement has not lost any of its topicality.

ORLAN (*1947, Saint-Étienne) is one of the most noteable representatives of the feminist avant-garde and performance art as well as the founder of L'Art Charnel (carnal art). The French artist has been using her own body as artistic material for six decades. She lives and works in Paris.
EXHIBITION 
Vertical Gallery, COLLECTION VERBUND, Vienna 
March 21–July 29, 2023