Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Weekly Selfie collage

 

Guillermo Argueta "Squillermo" 2022


John Berger

·       Before they are anything else, they are themselves objects which can be bought and owned. Unique objects.

·       To have anything painted and put on a canvas is not unlike buying it and putting it into your house. If you buy a painting you buy also the look of the thing it represents.

Mirzoeff3 

 

Wangechi Mutu at Met

·       Ms. Mutu calls “a stunning message from beyond.” It is testament to her belief that, like street theater or religious rituals, art can nudge viewers toward congregation.

·       The work of these women is immense. The regard for them is not.” 

 

The Feminist Challenge of Wangechi Mutu | Short description of one of her collage diptychs at the MoMA

·       She builds on the history of artistic photomontage as a socially engaged art form, nodding to artistic predecessors as diverse as Hannah Höch and Romare Bearden while staking out distinctly personal ideas on postcolonial Africa and globalization. 

Wangechi Mutu Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum

·       Mutu encourages audiences to consider these mythical worlds as places for cultural, psychological, and socio-political exploration and transformation.

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