Nancy Spero – To Soar (1997)

Exhibition poster with the work, To Soar, (1997) , by the American artist, Nancy Spero, (1926-2009), published in connection with the exhibition at Louisiana in 2020. Nancy Spero was an activist and feminist pioneer and known for her artistic confrontation with the 1960s rulers of all kinds. Nancy Spero's works are part of Louisiana's collection.

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Nancy Spero's work actively takes a stand on injustice - whether it concerns war or the oppression of women.

Early in her career, Spero abandoned painting. She considered it a symbol of a male-dominated world order and instead used primarily paper, which as a material has a more fragile expression - less macho, less pompous.

Among Spero's most important motifs is the human body, especially the female body. In order to express what she perceived as the basic nature of man, Spero also removed men from her art in the 1970s, and during the same period she co-founded the gallery AIR, which exclusively shows female artists.

Dimensions: W: 45.5 x H: 118.5 cm

Note: The poster is sold as shown in the first picture, i.e. without a frame.