Dorothy Iannone catalog

Louisiana exhibition catalogue featuring the American artist, Dorothy Iannone (b. 1933). The cover features a section of the work, At Home (1969). Freedom, free love, liberated sexuality and the ecstatic union with the other are central themes in Dorothy Iannone's explicitly autobiographical and explicitly erotic images. In 2022, Louisiana will present a retrospective selection of Iannone's works as part of the exhibition series, Louisiana on Paper.

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Since the 1960s, Iannone has developed a colorful, ornamental imagery that unfolds in paintings, drawings, books, video sculptures and more.

Dorothy Iannone's personal love affairs constitute an essential element. But the autobiographical depictions are built on a solid foundation of mythological and historical depictions of relationships and gender, love, sex and ecstasy. Here Iannone draws on references ranging from antiquity, the Icelandic sagas, Christianity and the Baroque to Indian tantra, world literature and film history.

Many works have the character of psychedelic 'graphic novels', where handwritten texts and images together tell the stories – without frills and with humor embedded in both linguistic and pictorial details.

Dorothy Iannone was born in Boston, USA, but has lived and worked in Europe since 1967. She is represented in the Louisiana collection with two works.

Dimensions: H. 34 x W: 24.5 cm
Published by: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Number of pages: 108
Release year: 2022
Language: English