{"id":235,"date":"2025-03-26T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhizomabiennial.art\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=235"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:03:32","slug":"corita-kent","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/rhizomabiennial.art\/nl\/artist\/corita-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Corita Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Corita Kent (1918 \u2013 1986) was een Amerikaanse kunstenaar en voormalig katholieke non, bekend om haar levendige, tekstgebaseerde zeefdrukken die Pop Art combineren met sociale rechtvaardigheid en spiritualiteit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In 1936 trad ze toe tot de Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles en werd ze Sister Mary Corita. In de jaren zestig, be\u00efnvloed door Pop Art, begon ze commerci\u00eble beelden en gedurfde typografie te gebruiken om boodschappen van liefde, hoop en activisme te verspreiden. Ze herinterpreteerde reclameslogans en bijbelse verwijzingen om armoede, racisme en oorlog aan te kaarten. In 1968 verliet ze de orde en verhuisde naar Boston, waar haar werk steeds politieker werd en zich richtte op burgerrechten en de anti-oorlogsbeweging. Haar gedurfde, kleurrijke prints blijven invloedrijk en slaan een brug tussen kunst en activisme.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In samenwerking met het Corita Art Center en het Coll\u00e8ge des Bernardiens presenteerde RHIZOMA voor het eerst in Belgi\u00eb negen historische werken van Corita Kent.<\/p>\n<p>In de jaren 1960 gebruikte Corita Kent haar kunst om popcultuur, sociale betrokkenheid en spirituele reflectie te verbinden. Na haar ontdekking van popart in 1962 transformeerde ze alledaagse commerci\u00eble beelden\u2014zoals het Wonder Bread-logo\u2014tot overpeinzingen over sociale rechtvaardigheid, mededogen en menselijke verbondenheid, bijvoorbeeld in <em>Enriched Bread<\/em> en <em>Wonderbread<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tegen het eind van de jaren 1960 werd Kent een uitgesproken pleitbezorger van burgerrechten en anti-oorlogsbewegingen. Drukken zoals <em>Stop the Bombing<\/em> (1967) en <em>For Emergency Use Soft Shoulder<\/em> (1966) combineren felle typografie en levendige kleuren met urgente oproepen tot vrede en empathie. In de serie <em>Heroes and Sheroes<\/em> (1968\u201369), waaronder <em>A Passion for the Possible<\/em>, <em>Phil and Dan<\/em> en <em>The Cry That Will Be Heard<\/em>, benadrukte ze collectieve actie, verbondenheid en optimisme, en liet ze zien dat positieve verandering mogelijk en noodzakelijk is.<\/p>\n<p>Kent\u2019s werk transformeert het alledaagse\u2014taal, logo\u2019s, merkbeelden\u2014tot diepgaande reflecties over rechtvaardigheid, spiritualiteit en menselijke ervaring. Haar kunst nodigt uit om de wereld te bekijken met meer bewustzijn, mededogen en betrokkenheid, en laat zien hoe het gewone kan inspireren tot sociale en persoonlijke transformatie.<\/p>\n<p><em>enriched bread\u00a0<\/em>(1965)\u00a075.56 x\u00a092.07 cm<br \/>\n<em>people like us<\/em>\u00a0(1965)\u00a058.42 x\u00a063.5 cm<br \/>\n<em>bread and toast<\/em>\u00a0(1965)\u00a042.54 x 67.31 cm<br \/>\n<em>apples are basic\u00a0<\/em>(1966)\u00a076.2 x 91.44 cm<\/p>\n<p><em>stop the bombing<\/em>\u00a0(1967)\u00a048.36 x\u00a058.42 cm<br \/>\n<em>the cry that will be heard\u00a0<\/em>(1968)\u00a055.88 x\u00a029.21<br \/>\n<em>phil\u00a0and\u00a0dan\u00a0<\/em>(1969)\u00a057.15 x 29.21 cm<br \/>\n<em>a\u00a0passion for the possible<\/em>\u00a0(1969)\u00a058.42 x\u00a030.48 cm<br \/>\n<em>for emergency use soft shoulder<\/em>\u00a0(1966)\u00a076.2 x\u00a091.44 cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-235","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Corita Kent - RHIZOMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rhizomabiennial.art\/nl\/artist\/corita-kent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Corita Kent - RHIZOMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Corita Kent (1918 \u2013 1986) was een Amerikaanse kunstenaar en voormalig katholieke non, bekend om haar levendige, tekstgebaseerde zeefdrukken die Pop Art combineren met sociale rechtvaardigheid en spiritualiteit. 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