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ISABELLA DUCROT
Tendernesses
July 30 - September 5, 2021
ISABELLA DUCROT - Tendernesses
Galerie Gisela Capitain is delighted to announce its second solo show with powerful force to act. In so-called primitive civilizations, taboo was a kind of
Italian artist Isabella Ducrot (*1931 in Naples). The exhibition Tendernesses electric charge, anointing certain not-yet-fully-defined objects, always capable
features a new series of large scaled works on paper. of assuming purity or impurity, the sacred or the forbidden (the word sacer, in
Hebrew qadoš, means both “sacred” and “impure”). One and the same
Observing these creatures intertwine with one another, confusingly feeling and gesture, the impossibility of being touched, indicated the observance of that
groping, a few things become immediately clear: the characters seem Slavic, or which is sacred and that which is impure. Isabella is attracted by this space
at least from Eastern Europe, dressed in folk costumes, almost straight out of laden with opposing tensions. She does not proceed with the intention of
Stravinsky’s Petrushka. They hail from another time and another place, perhaps desecrating, but with an instinctive desire for knowledge, spurred on by an
where clothes, in all their agile polychromic blends, characterized our lives in a inkling that, among the stained and greasy checked fabrics, something decisive
different way. Are they inhabitants of a beautiful land? lurks.
Undoubtedly, their habitat is the night: not just the thin crescent moon in the – Emanuele Dattilo
sky but the fabrics recall nighttime, in some cases seemingly torn from the
vault of the heavens (as if wearing fragments of what, figuratively, we
sometimes refer to as the celestial mantle). As is Isabella’s custom, the clothes Isabella Ducrot has lived in Rome for many years. Only beginning her artistic
are checked, starred, and polka-dotted, but not all the characters are dressed: career later in life, her approach is extremely sensitive; the initial moment in
naked figures stand out, some with vestigial wings. Are they human beings? the creation process of the works is tactile. Ducrot uses textiles and paper
Perhaps not; they may be demons, just like in Greek mythology Eros is a both as an artistic medium and as an artistic thread. She allows the material to
demon. Two figures of Eros seem to be represented: a sexual Eros, apparently become part of the image and so drains the fabric of its historical content
in these winged creatures, similar to Eros or Lilith; and a more human Eros, treating it as pure matter. This exposes the materials’ hidden elements and its
freed from any demonic power, in which one is clothed, or half-naked. The composition. Repetition is the subject and primary theme in many of her
demon is the natural instinct, sex, stripped down and raw, in all its imperious artworks. For Ducrot, this repetitive element becomes the object of
urgency; the human is the fabric, in which, as soon as the erotic instinct is representation.
fulfilled and disenchanted, Eros is revealed through a simple touching of the
self. Always, however, we glimpse the body through the garments, as if this Institutional exhibitions include: Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese,
were a prehistoric carnal background in which the fetishistic joy of the fabric Rome; Biennale Internazionale Donna, Trieste; Fondazione Dino ed Ernesta
elbows its way in. […] Santarelli, Rome (2021); Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna et
Contemporanea, Rome (2016); Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli,
Isabella seems attracted to everything that is normally hidden. Not self- Naples; Nazionale Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (2015); Museo
important official mysteries, but precisely what is kept hidden out of modesty, Michetta, Francavilla al Mare (2010); City University of New York, New York
out of embarrassment, all that is tacitly considered to be of little importance, (2008); Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, 21st Biennale, Ljubljana (1995);
unworthy and unseemly. In other words, Isabella is attracted not by what is Palazzo del Popolo, Orvieto (1994).
expressly forbidden, by prohibitions, but by what we refer to as taboos: things,
objects or gestures that we skirt around out of some kind of social and Isabella Ducrot was invited to exhibit at the Italian Pavilion for the Venice
cultural pact. Yet precisely because of this, because they are not officially- Biennale in 2011 and 1993.
formulated rules or legal prohibitions, they offer scope for an even more
Tendernesses XI, 2021 Mixed media on paper 179 x 130 cm
Tendernesses IV, 2020 Tendernesses III, 2020 Mixed media on paper Mixed media on paper 205 x 96 cm 186 x 96 cm
Tendernesses XVI, 2020 Mixed media on paper 178 x 129 cm
Tendernesses XVII, 2021 Tendernesses XIX, 2021 Mixed media on paper Mixed media on paper 212 x 115 cm 217 x 115 cm
Tendernesses XIX, 2021 detail Mixed media on paper 217 x 115 cm
Tendernesses XX, 2021
Tendernesses IX, 2021
Mixed media on paper
Mixed media on paper
227 x 116 cm
181 x 128 cmTendernesses XIII, 2021 Mixed media on paper 181 x 129 cm
Tendernesses X, 2021 Mixed media on paper 215 x 135 cm
Tendernesses XVIII, 2021 Mixed media on paper 203 x 146 cm
Isabella Ducrot in her studio in Rome
ISABELLA DUCROT
Solo Exhibitions Projects
2021 2002 2019
Tendernesses, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Cancion de libertad. Le strade della ricerca sulle donne, Spalti del In mappa compescere risum (music by the class of Moritz
Maschio Angioino, Napels Eggert), libretto, Nuova Consonanza, Teatro Palladium, Rome
2020 Memorie di una terra, Milan State Archives, Milan
Opere a ripa, T293, Rome 2016
Subjects, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva 2001 MISHIMA - Hanjo (music by Marcello Panni), stage design, Teatro
Rimpianto dei Budda di Bamyan, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Palladium, Rome
2019 Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
Big Aura, Capitain Petzel, Berlin Realms, Egizio's Project, New York 2012
Isabella Ducrot | Claire de Virieu, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Fra dentro e fuori, Casa delle Letterature, Rome Le quattro stagioni, stage design, Teatro Politeama, Lecce
Rome
La bella terra, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne 1999 2009
Galleria Extra Moenia, Todi Serenata a tre, stage design, Teatro Olimpico, Rome
2018
In Tibet, Spazio Parlato, Palermo 1998 2005
Bianca di pelle, Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome Miseno e Cuma (produced by Bruno Amman), mosaics,
2016 MetroNapoli, station Piazza Vanvitelli, Naples
Eden, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome 1997
Isabella Ducrot - Mishima. Hanjo. Letture 5, diagonale/ Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid 2003
librogalleria, Rome Premio le signore dell'Ippica, Premio Lydia Tesio, Capannelle
1994 Racecourse, Rome
2015 Palazzo del Popolo, Orvieto
Effimero, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples Galleria Bonomo, Rome 2002
Gran ballo di Ferragosto (organized by the city of Rome), Rome
2014 1992 La Maschera d'Oro (organized by the city of Rome), Rome
Galleryske, New Delhi Galleria Kouros, New York
Bende sacre, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e 1998
Contemporanea, Rome 1991 Le donne nelle Forze Armate, conference, State University, Milan
Interior Daytime, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome Oeuvres rècentes, Atelier Catherine Willis, Paris
1997
2010 1989 Flamenco y Kathak, stage design, Teatro Olimpico, Rome
Vasi, Galleria Monty & Company, Rome Galleria Sauro Bocchi, Rome
Suoni sensi segni, Piomonti Artecontemporanea, Rome 1995
1988 Festival del Suono, stage design, Orvieto
2008 Studi Barozzi, Milan
Variazioni. Ritratti d’autore di Isabella Ducrot, Galleria Nazionale Istituto di Cultura, Stockholm 1994
d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome Il costume mediterraneo, seminar, Gibellina
Le commencement du monde, Galleria Monty & Company, 1985
Rome Libreria della Galleria Giulia, Rome 1992
Russian Faces (curated by Diane Kelder), City University of New Festa di San Rocco, tapestry, Gibellina
York, New York
La matassa primordiale, Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome
2005
Montagne, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, BerlinGroup Exhibitions
2021 2010 1996
Art and Nature, Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Diorama letterario. Arte e ambiente, 61st Michetti Price, Museo Art for All, Food and Agriculture Orgaization, Rome
Rome Michetta, Francavilla al Mare Cultura-Scrittura. I miei libri, Osterio Magno, Palermo
Painting and Marble, Fondazione Dino ed Ernesta Santarelli, L’arte è donna, Art Gallery, Rome
Villa Lontana, Rome 2009
Io dico Io – I say I, Galleria Nazionale, Rome Donne di Roma, Auditorium, Rome 1995
Silent Transformations (curated by Gabriela von Habsburg), Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, 21st Biennale, Ljubljana
BID21ART/ Biennale Internazionale Donna, Trieste 2006 Galleria Bonomo, Bari
Therein /Thereof / Thereto (curated by Eivind Furnesvik), 57th Michetti Price, Francavilla al Mare Guepiére, Galleria Guido Novi, Rome
Standard, Oslo
2004 1994
2020 Epicentro, Akhenaton Gallery, Cairo Art et jeans. Reliefs minimax, Passage de Retz, Paris
3D, MAC Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome OutArt, Villa Sgaravatti, Rome
room enough for former teasers (curated by Marcel Hiller, Tre!, L’officina arte al borghetto, Rome 1993
Christof Lötscher and Marco Zeppenfeld), Stracci, Galleria Navona 42, Rome Straniati Stracci, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Artivisive Teofilo Patini, Teofilo Patini Price, Castel di Sangro Italian Pavilion (curated by Achille Bonito Oliva), 45th Venice
Art Cologne at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Biennale, Venice
Cologne 2003
Art Woman, Castello Carlo V, Lecce 1990
2019 Le opere e i giorni, Certosa S.Lorenzo, Padula Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro
Japonismes, Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, 1st Biennale, Kōchi
2001
2018 Donne di polso, Associazione Culturale Marcello Rumma, Rome 1987
Triptychs, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome Galleria Florence Quelien, Rome
2000 Segno, colore, spazio, atmosfere romane (curated by Federica di
2017 Il Viaggio, l’Immagine, Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro Castro), Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome
Japonismes, Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris Kouros Gallery, New York
Homage, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome Maison de Balzac, Paris 1986
A.I. Prove tecniche di trasmissione, Caserme Guido Reni, Rome Carissime nemiche, Il Politecnico Arte, Rome Ofelia '86, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris
2016 1999
Il sangue delle donne (curated by Manuela De Leonardis), Balzac e l'Italia, Bologna; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome EMM - Eventi multimediali, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e
Connections, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome Contemporanea, Rome
2015 1998
L’altra metà dell’arte. Un percorso al femminile nella collezione Disidentico, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo; Castel dell’Ovo, Naples
MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome Lavori in corso (curated by Giovanna Bonasegale), Galleria
Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2013 Della densità del silenzio, Galleria Navona 42, Rome
Partita doppia, Nuova Galleria Campo dei Fiori / Maja Arte
Contemporanea, Rome 1997
Babele III, German Academy, Villa Massimo, Rome
2011 Arte Contemporanea. Lavori in corso, Galleria Comunale d’Arte
L’Arte non è cosa nostra (curated by Vittorio Sgarbi), Italian Contemporanea, Rome
Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice Della densità del silenzio, Galleria Navona 42, RomeBibliography
Solo Exhibition Catalogues / Monographs Artists' Writings and Publications Group Exhibition Catalogues / Other Publications
2019 2021 2011
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costume mediterraneo II, University of Palermo, Palermo 1996. 1994.
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Ofelia '86 (exhib. cat.), Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris 1986.For further information please contact
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