Museion wins the PAC - Plan for Contemporary Art of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Museion will acquire the work by artist Nicola L., Same Skin for Everybody, 1975, thanks to winning the PAC - Plan for Contemporary Art promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture. The initiative aims to support projects for the acquisition of works created in the last 70 years in order to expand public collections.
This is the fourth edition of the initiative of the Italian Ministry of Culture’s General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity, which each year selects and supports (through public call) projects for the acquisition, production and valorisation of contemporary works to increase public collections of contemporary art. Museion has been selected among the 40 projects selected for PAC 2024, which will receive a total of €3.5 million in funding.
The work that will be acquired Same Skin for Everybody is part of Nicola L.’s artistic production of the 1960s, when she started to shape her Pénétrables: a series of canvases that allowed the public to literally immerse themselves in the work by introducing parts of their body into it; over the years, these canvases turned into banners with political slogans.
During the demonstrations in May 1968, Nicola L. took to the streets and made a series of ‘penetrable’ protest banners, among them Same Skin For Everybody with space for eleven heads.
Nicola L.
Nicola L. (1932 Mazagan, Morocco - Los Angeles 2018) developed a multidisciplinary art practice combining art, design, film and performance, exploring themes such as the objectification of women and art as a form of social activism. Initially associated with Pop Art, during the 1960s, Nicola L. was influenced by Argentinian artist Alberto Greco, whose work led her to focus on sculpture.
In the 1970s she started to produce documentaries such as, “Bad Brains” (1980) and “Eva Forest” (1979). The artist has devised several performances, including ‘The Blue Cape’, first presented in Cuba in 2002, and ‘Red Coat’, last presented in London at the ‘The World goes Pop’ exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2015.
Furthermore, her works have been included in exhibitions such as ‘Future Bodies from a Recent Past’, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2022); ‘Museum in Motion’, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) (2022); and ‘Elles’,Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009).
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