Nicola L. & Hannah Wilke
in ‘She-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! The Amazons of POP’, MAMAC, Nice
3 October 2020 – 22 March 2021
‘She-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! The Amazons of POP’, 2020–21, exhibition view, MAMAC, Nice. Courtesy: MAMAC, Nice; photo: Cécilia Conan
‘She-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! The Amazons of POP’, 2020–21, exhibition view, MAMAC, Nice. Courtesy: MAMAC, Nice; photo: Cécilia Conan
‘She-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! The Amazons of POP’, 2020–21, exhibition view, MAMAC, Nice. Courtesy: MAMAC, Nice; photo: Cécilia Conan
‘She-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! The Amazons of POP’, 2020–21, exhibition view, MAMAC, Nice. Courtesy: MAMAC, Nice; photo: Cécilia Conan
Nicola L. and Hannah Wilke are included in ‘She-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! The Amazons of POP’ at MAMAC, Nice.
For the first time on this scale, She-Bam Pow POP Wizz! tells us the open story of a generation of European and North American women who contributed with bold and flamboyance, to a less famous side of international Pop Art. For MAMAC 30th anniversary, this exhibition highlights a major axis of its collection – the face to face between New Realism and Pop Art – and one of its charismatic figures: the Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. In her wake, it is the essential contribution of female artists to Pop Art history that is shown here.
A redesigned version of ‘She-Bam Pow POP Wizz! The amazons of POP’ will be presented at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany, from October 2, 2021 to March 6, 2022 and then at the Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, from April 21, to August 28, 2022 entitled ‘Amazons of Pop – Women artists, icons, superheroines 1961-1973’.