Results for “Courbet”

Deborah De Robertis's Museum Interventions

Deborah De Robertis stages unauthorised performances before canonical artworks — Courbet's 'Origin of the World', the Mona Lisa — exposing her body to reflect the museum's gaze back on itself, and drawing repeated police complaints.

Gustave Courbet

The father of Realism, whose frank nudes and radical politics scandalised the establishment. After the 1871 Paris Commune he was imprisoned and held liable for the toppling of the Vendôme Column, dying in exile.

Deborah De Robertis

A Luxembourgish performance artist who stages unauthorised interventions in front of canonical artworks — most famously exposing herself before Courbet's 'The Origin of the World' at the Musée d'Orsay and beneath the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. Her work turns the museum into a stage and the viewer's gaze back on itself, and has repeatedly drawn police complaints, arrests, and charges of sexual exhibitionism — making her a lightning rod in debates over the female body, censorship, and who is permitted to act inside the museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Sr7CblcVQ

Double Crossed Corbet

When Vandalism Became Performance Art

During a Jacques Lacan exhibition, artist Deborah De Robertis and collaborators wrote 'ME TOO' in red marker across Courbet's 'The Origin of the World' and targeted works by Louise Bourgeois and others.