Sebastiaan Bremer at Winston Wachter New York

Wed, May 23 - Tue, Jul 31  2018

Winston Wächter New York - New York Consulate Region

From May 23rd until July 31st, Dutch visual artist Sebastiaan Bremer will take part in the “The Ideal Feminine/The Feminine Ideal?” group exhibition at Winston Wachter New York, NY.

“La Dame Combinèe Carrèe” (2013)

Unique hand-painted chromogenic print with mixed media

“The Ideal Feminine/The Feminine Ideal?”

The current political and cultural climate has refocused the world’s attention on the female body, the abuse it has suffered as well as the strength within every woman that defies historical prejudice and injustice. Barbara Kruger’s battle cry: “Your Body Is a Battleground” has never been truer. What has changed is that we are no longer content to simply offer our coy laments about the treatment of women by men in power. Perhaps for the first time in history, women are banding together, speaking out, using the legal system to bring their abusers to stand public trials, supporting one another as we move forward to a new era of feminism, equality and a future where our daughters will no longer feel afraid and be treated on par with their male counterparts. What is the role, the power, the future of the female body? What is the ideal feminine?

“Judith’s Second Anatomy Lesson” (2011)

Unique hand-painted chromogenic print with mixed media

49 1/2 x 44 7/8 inches

This show proposes to use the gallery as a platform to examine the way artists, mostly female, sees the female body as the ideal feminine. Can a female body be an ideal? What is that feminine ideal? Does it exist? Does it attract, repel, and exhibit strength, weakness? What are our expectations for the feminine ideal? Twelve artists have been invited to participate in the Ideal Feminine? show, each dealing with the notion of the female form in an individual way through a variety of materials, techniques, styles and interpretations.

“Zeemeermin” (2013)

Unique hand-painted chromogenic print with mixed media

About Sebastiaan Bremer

Sebastiaan Bremer was born in The Netherlands in 1970, and moved to New York in 1992. Largely self-taught, Bremer attended the open studio program at Vrije Academie in The Hague from 1989-1991, and has also studied at Skowhegan (1998) and Art Omi (2001). In 2001 he had his solo debut, ”Veronica,” at Roebling Hall, New York. Bremer’s work is part of several important collections in the US and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. Furthermore, Sebastiaan Bremer’s artwork has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, NY, and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT. He has also had solo exhibitions at, among others, Air de Paris and James Fuentes in New York.