Glenn Ligon

2015

Boek; 284 p ill

Met lijst werken. - Met bibliografie

Tent. Nottingham, Nottingham Contemporary, 03-04-2015, 14-06-2015 ; Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, 30-06-2015, 18-10-2015. - Glenn Ligon is one of the most significant American artists of his generation. Each of his works is a dialogue with other works of art, literature or culture. They relate, in particular, to American history, black experience and sexuality. For this exhibition he has brought together the work of 45 major artists - many of them referred to in his art or writing - from the late 1940s to the present day. Encounters and Collisions also includes key examples of Ligon's own work. Ligon came to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s with paintings related to abstract art. They featured stenciled texts repeated until smudging made them almost illegible. Some borrowed from books by important African- American writers, such as James Baldwin. Others used the words of famous public figures such as the comedian Richard Pryor and boxer Muhammad Ali. Ligon also makes works in other mediums, including video, neon, printmaking and installation.

Located in: LIGON, GLENN

ISBN: 9781849763561

VUBIS: 2:95573