Dorothy Iannone

 
For more than six decades, American artist Dorothy Iannone (1933, Boston–2022, Berlin) attempted to represent ecstatic love, the union of gender, feeling, and pleasure. Today her oeuvre, which encompasses painting, drawing, collage, video, sculpture, objects, and artist's books, is widely recognized as one of the most provocative and fruitful bodies of work in recent decades in terms of the liberalization of female sexuality, and political and feminist issues. As Fluxus artist Robert Filliou declared as early as in 1972, "She is a freedom fighter, and a forceful and dedicated artist, skillfully blending imagery and text, beauty and truth. Her aim is no less than human liberation." A narrative element fed with personal mythologies, experiences, feelings, and relationships runs through all of her work, unified by her distinctive colorful, explicit, and comic book style.
Active from the 1960s to the early 2020s, her work has been recently exhibited at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (2022); the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); the Serpentine Pavilion, London (2018); the Swiss Cultural Center, Paris (2016); MAMCO, Geneva (2017); the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunt, Zurich, and the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2014); the New Museum, New York (2009).

See also Dieter Roth.
 
Dorothy Iannone - Love Is Forever, Isn\'t It?
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
New approaches to Iannone's unique work.
Dorothy Iannone - First recording 1969 (CD)
2023
Tochnit Aleph
First recording: a cascade of sounds and words, recorded one after the other as they arose in the mind, consists of songs and poetry from diverse sources as well as original works by the artist.
Dorothy Iannone - Eros Paintings
2020
no text
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A selection of erotic paintings by the American artist, produced between 1969 and 1971: an ecstatic and mystical celebration of the sexual act.
Dorothy Iannone - The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The seminal tale of Iannone's advocacy for sexual liberation.
Dorothy Iannone - A CookBook
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
The long-awaited facsimile publication of Dorothy Iannone's 1969 cookbook.
Dorothy Iannone - A Fluxus Essay (book / CD)
2016
English edition
Tochnit Aleph
Dorothy Iannone tells her Fluxus Story in a Berlin recording from 1979.
Dorothy Iannone - Ewig Grün (vinyl LP)
2016
Tochnit Aleph
sold out
An audio recording of the American artist performing a German folk song while masturbating.
Dorothy Iannone - Censorship and The Irrepressible Drive Toward Love and Divinity
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Artist's book.


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