Wangechi mutu artist statement rubric

Wangechi Mutu has a problem with art. Or perhaps that should be a problem with the way we think about art. As the Kenyan-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker and performance artist points out, “historically, most of the world’s art isn’t on a canvas, or in a frame.”

“I am very much a believer that the limitations that we've placed upon what art represents – like, ‘Art is a painting’ or ‘Art belongs in a museum’ – have a lot to do with colonization and the attempt to own things that are sacred and un-ownable” Mutu tells the art historian, Courtney J.

Martin, in Phaidon’s forthcoming Wangechi Mutu monograph. ( You can reserve a signed copy here ).

In an artist's statement, Mutu has referred to “the beauty and survival capabilities of the human imagination.” She could as easily be talking about her own.

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The artistic statement of Kenyan-born American visual artist Wangechi Mutu tackles power and hints at inequity, the tension between which is a.

Mutu's works are her socio-political statements in which she expresses and critiques the issues of racial and class discrimination in the.

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“The most dominant idea of acceptable art is the art of the European canon. Everything else is Voodoo, is lesser than, is craft, is folklore, is anthropology. Who knows who made these terms up?”

Wangechi Mutu, Ox Pecked ,

That remains an open question, even if, thank