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News and Articles on Annette Messager
Dream in peace Jul 4, 2007
Within a year, the first three artists, Jesse Amado (from San Antonio), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (from New York), and Annette Messager (from France), were installing their work at Artpace. The bold plan, inspired in part by the Dia Center for the Arts in New York and the Capp Street Center in San Francisco, was to support a series of artist residencies in San Antonio. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Annette Messager: A bold messenger for feminist art Jun 27, 2007
Annette Messager at the Pompidou Center in Paris ... PARIS: Annette Messager remembers feeling lonely when she set out to become an artist in her 20s ... She also treated her art as a game that she called "false biography," variously portraying herself as Annette Messager the Collector, the Artist, the Cheater, the Peddler, the Practical Woman. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Paris loses its heart to modern art Oct 29, 2006
The exhibition, de Villepin's pet project, featured established artists such as Sophie Calle and Annette Messager and newer, more politicised and provocative figures such as Adel Abdessemed. His full-scale burnt-out ceramic car, exhibited last week at the Paris fair, is a clear reference to social problems and the riots that racked poor French suburbs a year ago. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
French modern art showcase opens amid controversy May 10, 2006
Work ranged from oil paintings to video installations, and featured young artists beside more established names such as the French installation artist Annette Messager, who presented a series of reworkings of the French map beside a wall of dismembered soft toys' limbs. Outside a painter, Pierre Gilou, handed out leaflets bearing a quote from the 19th-century French realist painter Gustave Courbet: "The state understands nothing about art.". (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
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