Surrealism was one of
the major lacunae in our artistic culture, and its absence left the modern American artist without a portion of the romantic patrimony.
But that is the point: this exhibition seeks to fill
a major lacuna in the history of art, an absence that points directly to the patriarchal nature of the discipline of art history itself.
Not exact matches
These days, the art community is working around the clock to fill in the various
lacunae of the past century's art - historical record, casting an appreciative spotlight on
major artists who were long marginalized because they weren't while, male, and living in Western capitals.
His
major solo exhibitions include «FOCUS» (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 2006), «prime and foundation» (Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan, 2015), «frame and refrain» (Musée Bernard Buffet, Shizuoka, Japan, 2015),» particles and release» (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 2016), and «Hiroshi Sugito module or
lacuna» (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2017).
Through this project — positioned on billboards in Toronto and eight
major cities across Canada — the artist critiques the
lacuna of black women from visual culture while asserting their empowered presence and identity in the very spaces from which they have been historically excluded.