Women artists in contemporary Italy. Autoritratti at MAMbo

You should know it first: it’s a [pink]gender-based project. Autoritratti at MAMbo, Bologna showcases contemporary Italian artists, selected and introduced by female curators. But this wouldn’t be the point. Grasping instead its deeper intentions, the idea of Uliana Zanetti, in concert with the museum direction, aims to start a critical reflection about the role and dignity that female artists have conquered in the contemporary art scene and public art spaces during the last three decades.
A long list of names, points of view, contributors and art visions in such an enormous space makes it very difficult to catch so many possible meanings and observations. The whole operation is remarkable and with noble intent, still it leaves you with a sensation of mess and unresolved result. Well, it’s a beginning: we’ll see what will come next.

Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea (collective show with over 40 artists present) at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna through September 1, 2013

Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea at MAMbo Bologna – Exhibition view

Alice Guareschi, She doesn’t say things are. she says: things are to me, 2011 at MAMbo Bologna [lettere sagomate al neon, 200x20]

Ottonella Mocellin, Some kind of solitude is measured out in you, you think you know me, but you haven’t got a clue, 2013 at MAMbo Bologna [installation]