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🇺🇸 MARTIN PURYEAR 🇺🇸 ▫️ “Liberty” | U.S. Pavillion | Venice Biennale ▫️ Happy 4th of July! In honor of Independence Day, I’m sharing some highlights from the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, which housed a fantastic show by the American artist Martin Puryear. Puryear’s minimalist sculptures incorporate historical references that bring to light the social and political dynamics that define our world. Each work in “Liberty” carries a powerful and thought-provoking story, conveying Puryear’s theme of liberty through elegant, minimalist forms. ▫️ The red sculpture in the first slide is actually a huge version of the hats worn during the French Revolution, and the black sculpture in second slide similarly depicts the Union’s hats from the American Civil War. Both of these works remind us that liberty and freedom aren’t necessarily free — they come at the steep cost of revolution and war. ▫️ The work in the third slide was without a doubt the most powerful. Titled, “A Column for Sally Hemings,” the tall, slender sculpture sits in the center of the pavilion, anchoring the entire exhibition. The work is a monument for Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who had an unconsentual sexual relationship with Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. Puryear wanted to acknowledge Jefferson’s troubling past because the U.S. Pavilion is styled after Jefferson’s plantation in Virginia, Monticello. ▫️ The fourth work, titled “New Voortrekker,” represents the delicacy of colonization. The Dutch title references the Great Trek, the journey of Dutch settlers through colonial South Africa. In Puryear’s sculpture, the wagon, a symbol of colonization, is perfectly balanced on a wooden plank. But any forward movement will cause the entire foundation to collapse, just as colonizers are capable of destroying entire indigenous communities. ▫️ #martinpuryear #venicebiennale #biennale #biennalevenezia #biennalearte2019 #peggyguggenheimcollection #artmuseum #moma #museumofmodernart #whitneymuseum #guggenheim #sfmoma #tatemodern #artgallery #gallerywall #instart #contemporarysculpture #sculptures #sculptor #arthistory #arthistorynerd #museumaddict
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Martin Puryear represents the United States at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opens to the public this Saturday, May 11th. For “Martin Puryear: Liberty/Libertà,” commissioned and curated by Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Deputy Director and Martin Friedman, Senior Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy, the artist created an entirely new body of work, including new sculpture and a site-specific outdoor installation for the Pavilion’s forecourt titled “Swallowed Sun (Monstrance and Volute),” an enormous, bright lattice-work screen with a black, snake-like support that curls upwards. . . . . . #martinpuryear #biennaledivenezia #venicebiennale2019 #biennalearte2019 #venicebiennale #biennale #uspavilion #liberty #unitedstates #usa #installationart #art #contemporaryart #sitespecificart #madsqpark #venice #venezia #italy
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