Saw this in the American pavilion at the biennale in Venice, don't remember if it was literally this or similar. The message is good, execution clever enough, definitely not my favourite aesthetically. My friend hated the whole thing.
Do you remember if any of his other work was with it, or just the one piece? In context with his other work I feel like it’s beautiful. But a lot of the work of his that was on display was huge, so it would be understandable if they only showed one or two pieces.
The other art of his on display at The Broad mostly included found objects from unknown Native bead artists which he had also placed beadwork around, and painted similar boldly designed textual elements. It’s not that none of the art worked without the others, adding them all together just layers on the messaging and style of his in a way that’s pleasing to me.
Almost everything was very boldly colored, though, so if that’s not your jam that’s understandable!
He did the whole pavilion, statues in beads like this and paintings and walls in similar colours.
That sounds rad tbh
Yeah but in context, it's one pavilion in a big park with loads of those, a lot of other countries just did even better.
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