Clara Schumann II
Künstler/in
Rosa Rendl
(geb. 1983 in Baden, Niederösterreich)
Date2017
ClassificationsGrafik
MediumCollage, Archival Pigment Print auf Hahnemühle Papier
Dimensions1100 × 800 mm; Rahmen: 112,4 × 82 × 3,5 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number28530
Description"...This kind of sheet music is seen elsewhere in Rendl’s photographic collages, particularly music from the Romantic tradition. In both her collaborative and solo musical projects, Rendl writes and performs songs, often built around the keyboard, with lyrics that describe longing and desire, often through the prisms of obsession, uncertainty, and the interminability of waiting. A series (Komponistinnen, 2017) displays scans of sheet music covers of female composers, including Clara Schumann, Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler, and Fanny Hensel, onto which secondary images of erotic bronzes—collectable sculptures made following a traditional Biedermeier-era style of realism—have been layered. The kitschy renderings of hyper sexualized young women in the bronzes, one pulls down her jeans to reveal the curve of a buttock; another tosses back a head of long flowing hair; yet another cranes her neck over her shoulder to kiss a lover while her body is displayed for a viewer, are a jarringly patriarchal vision of popular romance, designed as symbols of an ideal woman for the collector’s home. There’s a continuousness between these heteronormatively male-directed objects and the restricted work of the female composers featured in the series, who were only permitted to publish certain types of music or to enter certain spaces. Again here, the artist, who is also a composer, lies between the images. The home can be seen here as a zone of attempted resistance, in which inherited ideals and unspoken laws are marshaled by art.“ Text: Laura McLean-Ferris
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