The works in Disguise: Masks and Global African Art are organized around the idea that masquerade is
The works in Disguise: Masks and Global African Art are organized around the idea that masquerade is always an art of becoming.Masks can be effective tools for offering pointed critiques of institutions. William Villalongo tackles the institution of art history itself in his collages, cutting and mixing imagery of historical African masks with canonical Western artists. Villalongo’s sources for imagery in this piece include the Brooklyn Museum’s mask by an unidentified Ngbandi artist and the works of Willem de Kooning.Posted by Kevin D. Dumouchelle and Meghan BillWilliam Villalongo (American, born 1975). Re: History—Muses (Artifact 3), 2012–14. One of seven paper collages in Plexiglas vitrines. Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York. © William Villalongo. -- source link
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