“The artists' Fall Exhibition is a juried exhibition that has traditionally functioned as a rubber-stamp institution: it is there where Danish artists make their breakthrough. The four artists then tied this situation to women's traditional role. The parallel to the artist's development from amateur to professional via the breakthrough exhibition must therefore be the development from maiden to wife via the wedding, and in particular, the breaking of the hymen on the wedding-night. Aside from a more than two-meter high color photograph of the four artists clad in full bridal array, Bob Smith's contribution consisted of a number of moving-crates. On four of them were placed shiny new red beauty-boxes - women's moving-crate... noch einmal: men make art, while women (in the best case) make women's art. At the exhibition opening, the four artists furthermore went around signing postcards displaying the bridal array motif and presenting them to the public. Instead of signing the postcards with their individual names, as one might expect of that kind of idol-gesture, they all wrote: art beauties.”

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