9 May 2007 – 6 July 2007
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Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. is proud to present the solo show by the Swiss artist Miriam Cahn, opening on 9 May at 18.00, via Pontaccio 19, Milan. The artist will be present at the opening.


Miriam Cahn was born on 21 July 1949 in Basel, where she lives and works. She began her career at the end of the 1960s, with a series of black and white drawings, a medium in which she continues to work today. Her drawings have never been conceived as a preparatory phase for other works, but as autonomous works of art.

The worlds of silence, women, animals and war, the transfigured body as an object of violence, are constantly reflected in her work. Flaming reds and oranges, spectral blues, luminous greens are the colors chosen by the artist for the representation of her world.

The exhibition, with the emblematic title “Bellezza” (Beauty), includes 5 drawings and 20 paintings of different sizes (from 30x20 to 250x200 cm) that represent a panorama of subjects that recur in the work of this artist: women, men, children, animals, plants, landscapes, objects, buildings, often shown from an aerial vantage point, a bird’s-eye view, or as the artist puts it from the viewpoint of a pilot in a war plane. The works simultaneously convey a sense of melancholy solitude and a vivid impression of creative, revolutionary force.

For Miriam Cahn women are the central theme of her poetics:
"I concentrate on analyzing myself, and I am a woman", she emphasizes.
Her women are slender, impalpable spectres, with empty gazes, often depicted with enormous breasts and exposed genitals, always surrounded by a sort of luminous halo that comes from the flashing of bombs. Around the human figure lifeless landscapes are composed, for the most part, of simple geometric figures.

The works of Miriam Cahn are included in the collections of museums all over the world, where important solo exhibitions have been held, including the Kunsthalle of Basel, Musée la Chaux-de-Fonds of Neuchàtel, Kunstmuseum of Bonn, Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, Kunsthaus of Zurich, Kunstverein of Hanover, Musée Rath of Ghent, Museum fur Moderne of Frankfurt, Tate Gallery in London, Museum of Modern Art of New York, Cornerhouse in Manchester.
In 1984 Miriam Cahn participated at the 41st Venice Biennial, representing Switzerland.

The artist will attend the opening.