Glenn Ligon

Description

American artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is best known for his landmark text-based
paintings, which draw on the influential writings and speeches of twentieth-century
historical and cultural figures including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston and
Gertrude Stein. This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge, in which Ligon’s art will be displayed in dialogue with objects
from the Fitzwilliam and Trinity College collections selected by the artist himself.
Glenn Ligon is widely considered one of the most important figures in the
contemporary art world. Informed by his experiences as an African American living
in New York, his art is a sustained meditation on issues of interpretation through
translation and quotation, the role of the past in the present, and the representation of
the self in relation to culture and history, both as the conceptual underpinning and as a
critique of modern society. His text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, engage
provocatively and incisively with the written and oral legacy of writers and cultural
icons, from Ralph Ellison to Richard Pryor, highlighting the social, linguistic and
political constructions of race, gender and sexuality.
The catalogue accompanies a major exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge, while also serving as an introduction to the artist’s oeuvre. A large-scale
neon, Waiting for the Barbarians (2021), will be installed in the museum’s grade-I listed
portico and two dedicated galleries will be linked by interventions threaded throughout
the museum’s permanent collection, in which the artist has been invited to select
artworks and objects following themes including annotation, cultural hybridity and
legibility.
By exploring Ligon’s curatorial practice alongside his artworks, the exhibition
showcases the ideas of one of the most significant Black artists working today in direct
dialogue with museological tradition. Issues such as art making and aesthetics, as well
as broader questions about race and its socio-political implications, will be further
developed in the catalogue, which includes a series of essays and conversations between
Ligon and a range of museum curators.

Détails

Auteur: Ligon Glenn

Editeur: HOLBERTON

Format: Broché

Presentation: Broché

Date de parution: 18 Octobre 2024

Nombre de pages: 144

Dimensions: 16,5 x 24 x 0,1

Prix publique: 30,00 €

Information complémentaires

EAN-13: 9781913645700