March 2019
COMMUNITY NEWS Gendered Voices New series explores gender and traditional social RenfrewCollingwoodCommunityNews.com
roles at the Italian Cultural Centre Museum
by Angela Clarke For the 2019 exhibition season the Italian Cultural Centre has embarked on a new and innovative approach to its programming and curatorial vision. In order to fully explore traditional women’s lives, especially those of Italian women of the past, the Italian Cultural Centre Museum has conceived of an exhibition series entitled Gendered Voices. The series consists of four exhibitions. The first three explore the archetypal notions of womanhood that have created the context and shape for women’s lives in traditional society. Strongly held notions of feminine roles that have, in effect, predetermined the trajectory of women’s lives in the past, especially Italy prior to the 1960s. The exhibitions also question how these idealized feminine notions continue to pervade throughout contemporary society even with the advent of feminism. The first exhibition, Princesses + Monsters, features the paintings and sculpture of the Russian-born artist Anyuta Gusakova. Her work is a natural beginning to the Gendered Voices exhibition series since her artistic oeuvre has been devoted to explorations of gender archetypes.
Princess and Blue Horse. Photos courtesy of the Italian Cultural Centre
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