Artists

Ruth Marten

Press release

The jazz era! Cinema! Sex! Josephine Baker! Surrealism! Dangerous ideas! My heart leaps when I paint on these prints and I feel a tremendous kinship with these women. We are one body and one soul. - Ruth Marten, 2024

Ruth Marten, *1949, lives and works in New York City, NY/USA). The exhibition shows her latest series All About Eve, which the American artist has been working on since 2022. The series reveals a complex structure that blurs between high and low art, transcends boundaries of reality and genre, and is full of humour. Art historical references are mixed with her own pictorial inventions, which enter into a deep symbiosis with the original motif. One hundred years after the nude series of dancers from the Parisian variety theatre Les Folies Bergère was created, Ruth Marten examines the dancers - captured by the British-Polish photographer Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg (1863-1929) - from today's perspective.