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Sonia Delaunay: Designing a Life, an exhibition and accompanying publication at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, will cast a new look at the achievements and influence of this pioneering twentieth-century woman artist and designer. Recent interest in Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) has rightly emphasized the importance of her work outside the shadow of that of her husband, Robert (1885–1941). Yet, her paintings continue to be prioritized over her efforts in the decorative arts, despite the fact that her commercial designs spanned the entirety of her career.
Curators Maude Bass-Krueger and Waleria Dorogova will speak about the genesis of the exhibition, their collaboration, the sources and objects that they have uncovered, their curatorial vision, and some of the challenges they have faced. They will provide insight into ongoing new research underlying the exhibition and present some of its core themes.
Wednesday, October 27, 12:15-1:15 pm
This event is open to the BGC community and invited guests of the speakers. This event will be virtual: held on Zoom and streamed in the Lecture Hall. A link will be circulated to registrants by 10 am on the day of the event.
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Maude Bass-Krueger is a professor of art history at Ghent University in Belgium. Her research focuses on fashion, architecture, and the relationship between the two. She received her PhD from Bard Graduate Center in 2016. In 2019, she co-curated the exhibition French Fashion, Women, and the First World War at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery.
Waleria Dorogova is an art and fashion historian and assistant curator at Kunstmuseen Krefeld, where she is in charge of a research project about Sonia Delaunay as a textile designer and her collaboration with silk industrialist Robert Perrier. Dorogova holds an MA in art history and classical archaeology from the University of Bonn, where she is currently completing her PhD. She has previously worked as a research fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, assisted fashion and textiles specialist auctioneer Kerry Taylor, and was curator of the Goldsmiths Textile Collection in London. Her research centers around international aspects, historicism, and heritage in haute couture and the Russian diaspora’s involvement in Paris fashion.
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Curator’s Workshop is a new series that aims to bring early stage curatorial projects to the BGC community for collaborative conversation. This initiative is part of new commitment to rooting exhibition projects in the BGC’s teaching and research vocations, and to bringing student and community voices into the formation of these projects from their earliest stage.
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