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Gina Pane (Biarritz, May 24, 1939 – Paris, March 6, 1990) was a French artist of Italian origins. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1960 to 1965 [2] and was a member of the 1970s Body Art movement in France, called "Art corporel."
Mar 6, 1990 · Performance artist Gina Pane used her own body as a symbol for the universal body - a canvas on which to express communal concerns.
- French
- May 24, 1939
- Biarritz, France
- March 6, 1990
Gina Pane (Biarritz, May 24, 1939 – Paris, March 6, 1990) was a French artist of Italian origins. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1960 to 1965 and was a member of the 1970s Body Art movement in France, called "Art corporel."
A declared Christian, Pane identified Escalade non-anesthésiée as a commentary on the 1955–75 Vietnam War, a conflict that had, by then, escalated for 16 years; her self-inflicted wounds were a way of shaking an anaesthetized society awake. She described her pain as protest, her body a sacrifice.
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- French
A leading figure in the "body art" movement of the 1970s, Gina Pane staged a series of meticulously prepared and documented performances in which every gesture was performed as a ritual,...
Gina Pane was born in 1939 in Biarritz, France and spent most of her life working between Milan and Paris, where she died in 1990. She trained at the École Beaux-Arts in Paris and was associated with Edmee Larnaudie's Atelier d'Art Sacré [Studio for Sacred Arts] from 1961 and 1963.
