Powerful juxtapositions that tempt taboo, such as Glenn Ligon's Notes on the Margin of the Black Book, 1991 — 93, as threatening
cyclorama for Paul McCarthy's Michael Jackson Fucked Up Big Head Big Foot (MJFUBH), 2010, exemplify the extreme potential of this method to complicate both past and present.
Not exact matches
This weekend, head to the
Cyclorama in the South End
for the 21st annual Boston International Fine Art Show.
The BCA's
Cyclorama will be transformed into a canine compound
for the afternoon, featuring haunted happenings
for hounds... and their humans:
Bradford drew inspiration
for this new work from French artist Paul Philippoteaux's nineteenth - century
cyclorama, currently on view in Gettysburg National Military...
«New Works» opens on the heels of a year in which Bradford received acclaim
for «Tomorrow Is Another Day,» his searing exhibition
for the US Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, which will travel to The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), and unveiled «Pickett's Charge,» a monumental commission
for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., inspired by artist Paul Philippoteaux's nineteenth - century
cyclorama in Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania.
Like Young, Bradford represented his nation at last year's Venice Biennale and, in what was something of a monumental year
for the American, unveiled Pickett's Charge, a suitably monumental suite of paintings (collectively measuring more than 100 linear metres) that reinterpreted one of the defining moments of the American Civil War (the subject of an 1883
cyclorama by French painter Paul Philippoteaux, itself reinterpreted in Bradford's work) in a work of cut, torn and scraped layers that reflects on the complexities of history, its interpretation and its impact upon the present sociopolitical climate in the US.
Kunsthalle Winterthur CH; Teleonomy, Cafe Oto, London UK (all 2016); Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree, Camden Arts Centre, London UK; The London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London UK; Une Taxonomie des Sens et des Formes, Centre d'art contemporain La Halle des bouchers, Vienne FR; Project 09: Salvatore Arancio, Contemporary Art Society, London UK; The First Humans, Pump House Gallery, London UK (all 2015); Birds, Cinéphémère, FIAC, Paris FR; The Hidden, Ensapc Ygrec, Paris FR; Cathedral, AV Festival, Northern Gallery
For Contemporary Art, Sunderland UK (all 2014); Curiosity: Art & the Pleasure of Knowing, Hayward Touring UK (2013 - 2014);
Cyclorama, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City MX (2013); The Cosmos, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge UK (2012); An Arrangement of the Materials Ejected, Spacex, Exeter UK; Vedere un oggetto, vedere la luce / To See an Object to See a Light, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba IT (both 2011); SI Sindrome Italiana, Magasin - Centre National d'Art contemporain de Grenoble FR; Catastrophe?
This exhibition comes on the heels of a number of major public projects including «Tomorrow Is Another Day,» Bradford's widely - lauded exhibition
for the United States Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (which will travel to The Baltimore Museum of Art in September); «Pickett's Charge,» a monumental
cyclorama commissioned
for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; and a 32 - panel, site - specific painting of the entire US Constitution
for the new American Embassy in London.
Mark Bradford drew inspiration
for this new series of works from the French artist Paul Philippoteaux's nineteenth - century
cyclorama.
The
cyclorama at Gettysburg National Park is one of two extant examples in the US and it appealed to Mark both
for its proximity to Washington DC and the way its subject matter remains relevant today.