Gisele Amantea
Gisele Amantea: In Your Dreams
Stéphane Aquin
The artist takes a sentimental, romantic and universal approach to presenting a tableau of the history of women as seen in the cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. Employing the McLuhanian concept, "the medium is the message", Amantea imbues tiny everyday snow cones with extracts from films by Felini and Hitchcock as well as musical comedies featuring personalities such as Esther Williams and Josette Day thereby creating an exquisite allegory of women's submission to love and their vain and tragic resistance.
L'artiste propose, d'une façon sentimentale, romantique et universelle, un tableau de l'histoire des femmes capté par le cinéma des années 40-50. Elle a su exploiter et condenser le principe de McLuhanian , selon lequel "le médium est le message" et insérer dans les bulles de verre des extraits de films de Felini et Hitchcock, ainsi des images d'Esther Williams et Josette Day. L'ensemble compose une étrange allégorie de la soumission de la femme à l'amour et de sa vaine et tragique résistance.
Canadian Cultural Centre / Centre culturel canadien, Paris (1999) 63 p., 20 col. ill., 5.5x8 in. / 14x20 cm English/Français 1896940137 $20.00
Gisele Amantea: Requiescat
Annette Hurtig
The artist responds to cultural codes and social mechanisms that produce identity and designate difference, thereby determining relations and the formation of desire.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1997) 8x9 in col. ill., 092113228x $10.00
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