13 Facts About Gina Pane

Gina Pane was a French artist of Italian origins.

Parallel to her art, Pane taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Mans from 1975 to 1990 and, at the request of Pontus Hulten, ran an atelier dedicated to performance art at the Centre Pompidou from 1978 to 1979.

Gina Pane is possibly best known for her performance piece The Conditioning, in which she is laid on a metal bed frame over an area of burning candles.

Gina Pane is represented by Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris.

Gina Pane returned to France to study under Andre Chastel at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1960 to 1965.

Gina Pane spent time working at Atelier d'Art sacre, an organization that paired artists to execute projects for civic and religious buildings.

Gina Pane died prematurely in 1990, following a long illness.

From 1962 to 1967, Gina Pane produced geometric abstraction and created a number of metal sculptures by bending sheets of metal into simple shapes, the structures and her use of primary colors being reminiscent of minimal art.

From her academic training Gina Pane developed an interest in the human body and turned to making sculpture and installation.

In 1968, Gina Pane began making minutely prepared and documented actions in which each gesture was imbued with a ritual dimension.

Gina Pane considered space and time to be the material for these works.

In 1973, at the Galerie Diagramma in Milan, Gina Pane executed Sentimental Action before an audience, the first row of which was exclusively female.

Gina Pane twice repeated an action twice, the first time with a bouquet of red roses, and the second time with a bouquet of white roses.