Dorothy Iannone was born in 1933, Boston, now lives in Berlin. Her new exhibition in Peres Projects, Berlin titled Sunny Days and Sweetness showing her artworks depicting female and male sexual intercourse. The way she portrait female sexuality is not repressed or exploited like the teacher in Ghost World would have loved. The stiffness of her portraits these human figures and the deliberately white space on human subjects, in contrast with the back ground, clothing, accessories, vivid typography, makes me thinking of the old paintings in the cave, or on the wall when people still thinks the cave can just be the natural skin colour for human, or there is no need to put colour onto human skin.
I am not sure about my attitude towards hedonism representation in painting yet, after all, I do think our generation is not so much hedonistic, at least not in 70s sense. I think we really need a new vocabulary to represent the state of mind of our generation, although nothing can ever be fully represented - from lot of philosopher's point of view. so we can only put words such as post-, alte- super-, alter- in front of or after to state the chaotic feeling that we can never make sense of unless we are remote to a certain degree.
Photo credit: Peres Projects
Resources: http://moussemagazine.it/dorothy-iannone-peres/
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