page_title: Agnès Thurnauer
section_title: Portraits grandeur nature (2007—2009)
hierarchical_section_title: Agnès Thurnauer / Notable work / Portraits grandeur nature (2007—2009)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Grande Prédelle Rainbow Elbow
context_page_description: Agnès Thurnauer is a French-Swiss contemporary artist. Primarily a painter, she also works with a number of other media and techniques.
context_section_description: In 2007, Thurnauer first exhibited her work Portraits grandeur nature, a series of oversized buttons (each 120 cm in diameter) in resin and epoxy paint displaying the names of well-known artists, mostly male, transformed into names evoking the opposite gender. For example, Marcel Duchamp becomes Marcelle Duchamp and Andy Warhol becomes Annie Warhol. An exception is the button reading Louis Bourgeois, a masculinized version of the name of the artist Louise Bourgeois. This work, which questions both the literal and figurative representation of women in art, propelled her to previously unattained notoriety as an artist.
caption: Grande Prédelle Rainbow Elbow (2008)
exif: {}