Category: art

Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic

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This major exhibition, 29 January – 25 April 2010 at Tate Liverpool, (also traveled to Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, España, July – October 2010) inspired by Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), identifies a hybrid culture that spans the Atlantic, connecting Africa, North and South America, The Caribbean and Europe. The exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of Black Atlantic culture on Modernism and will reveal how black artists and intellectuals have played a central role in the formation of Modernism from the early twentieth century to today.

I made a post before. But I have recently found the dvd of installation images, dating April 2010.

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Images, courtesy of Tate Liverpool.

Maria Sibylla Merian

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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717)  was a Naturalist, an Entomologist and a Botanical Illustrator and is rated as being one of the greatest ever botanical artists.? She is best known for her illustrations of plants and insects made as a result of her trips to the tropical country of Suriname on the north eastern cost of South America. via

The National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Women & the American Story.

The History of Abortifacients. … in her 1705 book Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam, recounts:

The Indians, who are not treated well by their Dutch masters, use the seeds [of peacock flower (or flos pavonis)] to abort their children, so that their children will not become slaves like they are. The black slaves from Guinea and Angola have demanded to be well treated, threatening to refuse to have children. They told me this themselves.

Quote is also cited here – https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Workshop%20II%20papers/L.%20Schiebinger.doc.pdf

Related : Garden of Virtues.

Peacock flower - Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Peacock flower – Caesalpinia pulcherrima

Natural Transcendence at Oolite Arts

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‘Natural Transcendence’ curated by Rhonda Mitrani, which opens at Oolite Arts-928 gallery space, starting June 16. The group exhibition features video and photography work that reflects an ethereal sensibility toward nature. Exploring the intersection between humanity and nature even prior to the pandemic, not just in vast terrains, but in domesticated landscapes.

The exhibition features works by Adler Guerrier, Megan McLarney, Colleen Plumb, Anastasia Samoylova, Jennifer Steinkamp, Wendy Wischer and Antonia Wright.