Random pic 29 March 2024
The First Supper (Galaxy Black), 2023; Tavares Strachan b.1979. Entangled pasts 1768-now, an RA exhibition https://flic.kr/p/2px7jrKEntangled Pasts 1768-now - Art, Colonialism & Change at the RATÁVARES STRACHAN (b. 1979): The First Supper (Galaxy Black), 2023 Bronze, black-patina and gold leaf. Courtesy of the artist and Courtesy of Glenstone Museum, Potomae, MarylandThis sculpture celebrates the act of sharing a meal. Twelve historically significant activists writers, musicians, explorers and political leaders from the continent of Africa and its diasporas are gathered around a table laden with rice, breadfruit, catfish, chicken, cocoa, custard apple and soursop. Although these people come from very different eras and backgrounds and hold different world views, Strachan imagines them coming together for physical and intellectual nourishment. Seated below Strachan's self-portrait is a thylacine, a species now extinct.From left to right:Tavares Strachan (b. 1979)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973)
Harriet.Tubman (1822-1913)
Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005)
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Zumbi dos Palmares (1655-1695)
Haile Selassie (18g2-1975)
Mary Seacole (1805-1881)
Matthew Henson (1866-1955)
Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992)
King Tubby (1941-1989)
Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
Robert Henry Lawrence (1935-1967)Supported by Brooke Brown Barzun and Matthew Barzun[Details from the RA labels]
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