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Annette Messager

Annette Messager

1943
PaintingOutsider Art
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
1
Works in Collection
55
Assets Indexed
4
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
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Movements
  • • Outsider Art
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Bookworks
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
About

Why this artist matters now

Annette Messager assembles installations from soft toys, fabric, netting, photographs, and colored pencil drawings, building dense accumulations that probe domesticity, the body, and femininity with sardonic tenderness. Her work refuses clean categorical boundaries, folding the handmade and the abject into arrangements that are simultaneously intimate and unsettling. She represented France at the 2005 Venice Biennale, where her installation was awarded the Golden Lion.

Source: Marian Goodman · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Movement
Outsider Art
Medium
Painting
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Museum Collections

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Artworks (1)

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Images

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Artsy artwork: Lostlove (2023)
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Artsy artwork: Cool (2020)
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Artsy artwork: Piques (1994)
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Annette Messager (Wikipedia)
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As if this flesh, which wall about our life, were brass impregnable (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
As if this flesh, which wall about our life, were brass impregnable (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
As if this flesh, which wall about our life, were brass impregnable (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Movements and affiliations

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Institutional

Representation & Collections

Represented by
Marian Goodman Gallery
Current
In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Background

Education

École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
Visual Arts
Beaux-Arts de Paris
Visual Arts
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Exhibitions and timeline

Group ExhibitionBookworks
New York · 1977