A portrait of a youthful Prince foregrounds Eric N. Mack’s Parade, juxtaposed with pages taken from

A portrait of a youthful Prince foregrounds Eric N. Mack’s Parade, juxtaposed with pages taken from various printed materials, including fashion magazines, newspapers, and the artist’s own stained papers. In taping the iconic artist Prince’s image alongside a catalogue spread for the foundational German Conceptual artist Joseph Beuys, Mack insists upon seeing the resonance of radical creativity across different cultural spheres and across time. (Indeed, Beuys died the same year Prince’s eight studio album, Parade, was released). By using Tartan plaid fabric instead of a conventional canvas, and incorporating materials like the red suitcase fragment and shower curtain rod, Mack carries forth Beuys and others’ charge to collapse the distinction between art and everyday life, channeling it through the spirit of Black musical and stylistic genius.Posted by Ashley JamesInstallation view of Parade (2016), Eric N Mack: Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, January 11, 2019 - July 7, 2019. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado) -- source link

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