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Looking through my photos I discovered images of this child from 2012 and this year. However,…
Monday’s Child
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Photo of the Week 19/52: Friday’s Child - Iyana Roach
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I met this young…
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Continues thru Aug 4:
“Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works”
El Anatsui
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show features over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction.
Included in the exhibition are twelve recent monumental wall and floor sculptures, widely considered to represent the apex of Anatsui’s career. The metal wall works, created with bottle caps from a distillery in Nsukka, are pieced together to form colorful, textured hangings that take on radically new shapes with each installation. Anatsui is captivated by his materials’ history of use, reflecting his own nomadic background. Gravity and Grace responds to a long history of innovations in abstract art and performance, building upon cross-cultural exchange among Africa, Europe, and the Americas and presenting works in a wholly new, African medium.photos: C-Monster
J’adore le musée de Brooklyn. Il ya une exposition impressionnante du travail de Hank Willis Thomas “Unbranded”. Sa te byen fre. Vous devriez aller le voir.
