Branicka / Brioschi Mariuccia Secol. Unraveling

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-7757-6207-6
Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

This monograph is the first comprehensive study of Italian artist Mariuccia Secol (*1929), who redefined the boundaries of feminist art through powerful textile and sculptural works. Her practice evolved from abstract painting in the 1950s and 1960s to innovative fabric assemblages, installations with everyday materials, ceramics, and collages. Thematically, her works revolve around issues such as the subordinate role of women, domestic violence, and social exclusion. Using embroidery, fabric deconstructions, and household objects, Secol created textile artworks that symbolize wounds and resilience and intensively address the political and social problems of our time.

Mariuccia Secol was born in Castellanza (northern Italy) in 1929 and lives and works in Daverio near Milan. After completing her artistic training, she began exhibiting her work extensively and, in 1974, co-founded the feminist artist group Gruppo Feminist Immagine di Varese, with which she exhibited at the 1978 Venice Biennale. Today, her works are recognised worldwide and shown at important feminist art exhibitions, such as The Unexpected Subject: 1978 – Art and Feminism in Italy at the FM Centre for Contemporary Art in Milan and Cooking, Cleaning, Caring: Care Work in the Arts Since 1960 at the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Branicka, Monika

Brioschi, Eva

Weitere Mitwirkende

Branicka, Monika

Bremer, Maria

Brioschi, Eva

Gandini, Manuela

Jefferies, Janis

Plaza Lazo, María Inés

Scotini, Marco

Secol, Mariuccia

Pridgar, Harald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Textilkunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Foreword
Mariuccia Secol: A Life in Images
Art as an Act of Humanitarianism and Social and Political Engagement
Second Genesis: Care, Cure, and Autopoiesis
Vogliamo—Vo(g)liamo* Conference: Woman-Art-Society
The Gallery of Works
Transformative Encounters: Mariuccia Secol's Work on Display in the Mid-Nineteen-Seventies
Iconography of an Absence: Mariuccia Secol, the Rebel Archives of Feminism, and the Amnesia of History
Near to the Wild Heart: Feminism, Labor, Art, and the Rediscovery of Mariuccia Secol
Capital Has No Mother, Only Managers: Mariuccia Secol and the Feminist Struggle Against the Economization of Women's Labor
Mariuccia Secol: Three Tales
To Fable One's Own Experiences: No Longer a Labor of Love
The Horizon Is Always Farther …
Author Biographies
Copyright page