Andrea Fraser, Untitled (Pollock/Titian) #4 (1984/2005). Digital C-print. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. University purchase, Parsons Fund, 2006. Photo © Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

ST. LOUIS, MO.- Over the last two decades, Andrea Fraser has dramatized the relationship between art and its audiences through a series of performances, videos and photographs. Adopting a variety of art-world positions — the docent, the curator, the dealer, the collector, the critic — Fraser exposes and critiques the ways in which the artistic subject, as well as the art object, are staged and reified by the art institution.
In May, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Andrea Fraser, "What do I, as an artist, provide?," the artist's first Midwestern solo exhibition. The exhibition will include performance-based videos, photographs, and other works dating from the mid-1980s to the present.
The exhibition will highlight a series of recent C-prints in which Fraser employs appropriated imagery to investigate how art history constructs the artist as a transhistorical subject and, in particular, how that construction is articulated in relation to representations of women. The C-prints are made from images that Fraser first created in 1984 by superimposing slides of modern and old master paintings and drawings, which in turn were culled from museum libraries and gift shops. The resulting works are both dissonant and seductive. For example, in Untitled (Pollock/Titian) #4 (1984/2005), Titian's Venus gently dematerializes into one of Jackson Pollock's all-over fields. 
The exhibition also explores Fraser's strategic use of video installation and projection. The humorous Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk (1989), filmed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, shows Fraser — as fictional docent Jane Castleton — leading unsuspecting visitors on a subversively scripted tour of galleries as well as restrooms, water fountains and the museum's cafeteria. In Official Welcome, 2001 (Hamburg version, 2003), Fraser mimics the personas of a variety of contemporary artists as well as the patrons who support them. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19991