Je ne serai jamais cubiste, Un siècle féminin

Je ne serai jamais cubiste, Un siècle féminin
Group show, Estrine Museum
8 Rue Lucien Estrine, 13210 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
From February, 15th to June, 8th 2025

In October 1915, the artist Juliette Roche told a journalist about her work: ‘Me [...]. I'll never be a Cubist, even though, of course, I'm very interested in this art. No, not even my husband can influence me.

This statement, whose audacity and freedom of action can be attributed to the prickly nature and class privileges of its author at the beginning of the 20th century, nevertheless highlights a reality in the status of women artists that has been prevented from lasting: an essentialist view of artistic practices and the very status of artist, careers cut short in favour of a male counterpart, under-representation of women artists in public collections in the contemporary era, etc.

Following on from the previous exhibition of the ‘Un siècle de peinture' collections, ‘Je ne serai jamais cubiste' (I'll never be a cubist) focuses on the work of the female artists in the collections, once again illustrating a century of creation. Although the exhibition is based on the criterion of gender, it is not intended to reduce the works presented to this identity.

The exhibition aims to create a dialogue between the work of different generations, bringing together the plastic writing of ceramist Anne Dangar, whose work illustrates Gleizian cubism, and that of the very contemporary Mireille Blanc, who uses paint to exacerbate detail and reveal the strangeness of an ordinary object. Geometric abstractions

Image : Mireille Blanc, Zeppelin, 2020, huile et spray sur toile, Collection Musée Estrine

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