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Wangechi Mutu combines African sculpture and futuristic imagination in a brand-new installation for The Met’s façade. | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Wangechi Mutu’s majestic new sculptures grace The Met’s façade in this historic installation. | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Wangechi Mutu’s majestic new sculptures grace The Met’s façade in this historic installation. | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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This sculpture emerged from an underwater Afrofuturist world. Artist Wangechi Mutu reshapes narratives of womanhood, playing with the female form with divine female warriors, goddesses, and supernatural creatures. Mutu’s “MamaRay” is an otherworldly female guardian deity — her body references aquatic creatures with broad cape-like wings that stretch from the top of the figure’s head to its serpentine tail. “I create as a way of reinvigorating myself by replacing and reworking images and ideas th

This sculpture emerged from an underwater Afrofuturist world. Artist Wangechi Mutu reshapes narratives of womanhood, playing with the female form with divine female warriors, goddesses, and supernatural creatures. Mutu’s “MamaRay” is an otherworldly female guardian deity — her body references aquatic creatures with broad cape-like wings that stretch from the top of the figure’s head to its serpentine tail. “I create as a way of reinvigorating myself by replacing and reworking images and ideas th

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This kinetic sculpture by Wangechi Mutu mimics the action of a phonograph, its needle replaced by the tip of a slowly rotating wooden branch that is suspended from the ceiling. For Mutu, the sound produced by the scrape of wood as it slowly circles the aluminum pot below is an elegiac representation of the poems, voices, and stories lost with the passing of previous generations. If the pot is a tool for providing sustenance, here it is repurposed as a symbol for the importance of maternal lineag

This kinetic sculpture by Wangechi Mutu mimics the action of a phonograph, its needle replaced by the tip of a slowly rotating wooden branch that is suspended from the ceiling. For Mutu, the sound produced by the scrape of wood as it slowly circles the aluminum pot below is an elegiac representation of the poems, voices, and stories lost with the passing of previous generations. If the pot is a tool for providing sustenance, here it is repurposed as a symbol for the importance of maternal lineag

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On view at NOMA through July 14, “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” brings together nearly 100 sculpture, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artist’s multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today.⁠ ⁠ The exhibition traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link our bio to lea

On view at NOMA through July 14, “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” brings together nearly 100 sculpture, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artist’s multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today.⁠ ⁠ The exhibition traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions.⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link our bio to lea

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The Light-Filled “Dream Studio” of Kenyan-American Artist Wangechi Mutu

The Light-Filled “Dream Studio” of Kenyan-American Artist Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

A major survey of Wangechi Mutu's phenomenal art practice opens today at the New Museum. ⁠ ⁠ Since the 1990s, her surreal artworks have focused on creating haunting and sometimes grotesque characters to question systems of power and aesthetic conventions.⁠ ⁠ The exhibition traces the connections between recent developments in Mutu's sculptural practice, and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalisation, and African and diasporic cultural traditions.⁠ ⁠ Explore the sh

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Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu was born #OnThisDay in 1972. Her work “The Seated III,” a large sculpture of a kneeling female figure embellished with bronze coils, is on view now in the first pavilion gallery, where it faces the Modern’s reflecting pond. The multidisciplinary artist’s work is informed by the legacies of colonialism, racialization, and science. The female figure is central to Mutu’s visual language, through which she engages with race, cultural identity, and art history. ___ @w

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Between the Earth and the Sky, Wangechi Mutu — Art21

UW installs new sculpture by Wangechi Mutu

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Wangechi Mutu's work explores themes of femininity across history and civilizations and in many different media. In this week's Slow Art, listen in as a Modern docent explores Mutu's "The Seated III," 2019, and its references to both cultural conflict and the ties between art and architecture. | The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

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Artists Alex Katz and Wangechi Mutu explore works in our collection. Created for the 27th annual Art & Artists Gala, this video brings them together to consider how The Met’s extraordinary collection continues to shape their practice. The Art & Artists Gala is a special evening that celebrates the visionary artists and the works that define The Met collection. Proceeds from this event support the Museum’s acquisitions fund and other Museum activities. | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Wangechi Mutu - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

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Cyborg Humanism: Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Don’t Miss: The Wangechi Mutu Retrospective at the New Museum

Wangechi Mutu's Untitled (Flower Series) is our 14th object in our 100 Centennial Collection Highlights. Wangechi Mutu established her reputation in the early 2000s with large-scale, colorful works on paper combining painting and collage. At once voluptuous and frightening, her hybrid figures, part human, part animal, plant, and machine address issues of gender, race, and postcolonial politics. With its mix of references to African cultural traditions, high fashion, and science fiction Mutuʼs wo

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Installing Wangechi Mutu's "MamaRay" in the Great Hall [Timelapse]

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Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan artist, now based in New York City. She constructs rich mythical mash-ups of beauty and the grotesque that tease and taunt the eye. “The End of Eating Everything” is her first animation, made in 2013 out of a desire to bring her “Tumour” series of collages to life. “I wanted to have the time dimension be a part of it,” she says. The series references a blistering and ulcerated planet that has erupted into all kinds of problems: “Its pulsing and alive but it’s also sick,

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Wangechi Mutu + Santigold - The End of eating Everything - Nasher Museum at Duke

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Allowing time for her damp materials to dry, Wangechi Mutu balances efforts from work to work—from painting to sculpture—while maintaining a fluid and interconnected studio practice. "Sometimes a three-dimensional piece will completely influence how I end up working on a two-dimensional piece," says Mutu in a new film premiering today in our "Extended Play" series. "There's a lot of osmosis and learning from my work." Watch → https://a21.tv/MutuEarthSky | Art21

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Wangechi Mutu, Suspended Playtime, 2012

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Wangechi Mutu, In Two Canoe, 2022 - Storm King Art Center

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Wangechi Mutu's Incredible Sculpture at New Museum

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Brilliant Ideas | Wangechi Mutu | Reclaiming the Female Form Through Afrofuturist Art | Documentary

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Behind The Scenes of "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined"

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Wangechi Mutu: On The End of eating Everything

Meet the Artist—Wangechi Mutu: The NewOnes, will free Us | Met Exhibitions

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