Shigeko Kubota
Vagina Painting

LA RECENSIONE

"Sola con su spiritu, sola con suo amor el mar".

Until the 1940s, women did not vote, could not light cigarettes in public, and had to stay home knitting, they were the superior race, capable of sustaining the species, nurturing it in their wombs for nine months and then giving life.

The artistic performances we hear about are those that were close to the media; we know little about actions like that of Thomas Ruller, who set himself on fire in Prague in 1988. If we know about them, it's only because, after the political censorship of the communist regime, all "unofficial" art found in performance a quick and adaptable means capable of astonishing and leaving no evidence in a clandestine environment.

The relationship between oneself and others becomes dramatic around the theme of women's emancipation, a new chapter in performance.

Image: Keep on rising.

From Japan, the land of samurai and identical faces, comes Shigeko Kubota who utilizing the legacy of Gutai along with that of Fluxus, painted publicly, in front of bigoted critics and curious spectators, on a horizontal surface, squatting, guiding a large brush with her vagina.

"VAGINA PAINTING", 1965, NEW YORK

Ultimately it's a prankish gesture, a gesture that accompanies the actions of Ana Mendieta, Valie Expert, Gina Pane, Marina Abramovic.

The body as such, a narcissistic and original display that overturns the aesthetic canons of modern art, which risks diving too many times into rhetoric, finally my inspiration is towards a matriarchal society, only those who have experienced on themselves what it is to give life can aspire to make the right decisions.

Image: White handkerchiefs and fleshy lips, sticky brushes.