From our #palmbeachculture family to yours, we wish you a happy Independence Day! ☺️🇺🇸⭐️
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Repost: J. Rachel Gustafson, Assistant Curator highlights Danh Vo’s artwork “We the People” (detail) this #IndependenceDay. 🗽
“Seen to the left, this seemingly abstract sculpture by Danh Vo is one of more than 300 pieces that collectively constitute a full-scale facsimile of the Statue of Liberty. Working with a fabricator, Vo employed the same techniques and materials used to create the original statue but intentionally isolated the fragments. Vo was intrigued with the Statue of Liberty’s surface — which is less than three millimeters thick — in juxtaposition to the ideals it represents. He has stated that “you think of this monumental sculpture but the image of it is stronger than the physical materiality.”
In observance of Independence Day, this work reminds us that the United States represents a patchwork of diverse people and perspectives that, at times, can become fragmented. “We the People (detail)” provides an opportunity to experience the hidden fragility of the Statue of Liberty while also reflecting on its symbolic values of freedom.
Visit the link in our bio to watch a short video from the National Museum of Denmark where this fragment, and others from the We the People series was installed in 2013, and hear more of Vo's own commentary on the project.”
- J. Rachel Gustafson, Assistant Curator
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2019 Installation of Harris Gallery
Danh Vo (Danish, born Vietnam, 1975)
We the People (detail), 2011
Copper
Gift of Jane B. Holzer in honor of her parents, Helen and Carl Brukenfeld, 2016.252
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From our #palmbeachculture family to yours, we wish you a happy Independence Day! ☺️🇺🇸⭐️
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Repost: J. Rachel Gustafson, Assistant Curator highlights Danh Vo’s artwork “We the People” (detail) this #IndependenceDay. 🗽
“Seen to the left, this seemingly abstract sculpture by Danh Vo is one of more than 300 pieces that collectively constitute a full-scale facsimile of the Statue of Liberty. Working with a fabricator, Vo employed the same techniques and materials used to create the original statue but intentionally isolated the fragments. Vo was intrigued with the Statue of Liberty’s surface — which is less than three millimeters thick — in juxtaposition to the ideals it represents. He has stated that “you think of this monumental sculpture but the image of it is stronger than the physical materiality.”
In observance of Independence Day, this work reminds us that the United States represents a patchwork of diverse people and perspectives that, at times, can become fragmented. “We the People (detail)” provides an opportunity to experience the hidden fragility of the Statue of Liberty while also reflecting on its symbolic values of freedom.
Visit the link in our bio to watch a short video from the National Museum of Denmark where this fragment, and others from the We the People series was installed in 2013, and hear more of Vo's own commentary on the project.”
- J. Rachel Gustafson, Assistant Curator
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2019 Installation of Harris Gallery
Danh Vo (Danish, born Vietnam, 1975)
We the People (detail), 2011
Copper
Gift of Jane B. Holzer in honor of her parents, Helen and Carl Brukenfeld, 2016.252
Earlier this summer, the City of West Palm Beach launched "DIY 4th of July", a fun way for locals to celebrate Independence Day from home this year. Check out the link in bio for activity tutorials, fireworks information and more to get started! Don't forget to take photos of your celebration & tag #WPBTogether! 🇺🇸✨ #palmbeachculture
Cha cha with us at “A Latin Affair”! 🌹🎶 Our next virtual Summer Performing Arts Series concert with Jill + Rich Switzer and Friends happens Saturday, July 11 at 7pm! Don’t miss this free concert, hosted by @wptv Newschannel 5’s @timallanwalker • Visit our link in bio for more info on how to watch! 🎵
We’ll see you soon ♥️✨ Art: @kobrastreetart • #palmbeachculture
Our virtual summer exhibition, “Alone Together: A Coronavirus Crisis Collage” by Sharon Koskoff / @sharondelray continues! This remarkable collage features 164 6" x 6" square artworks by 113 local artists. Bonus: prints of these pieces are available to purchase on our website and will benefit our Artist Relief Fund 🙌💕 #palmbeachculture #localart #artistrelieffund #collage #covid19 #isolationinspiration #collab #collaboration #mural #alonetogether #thepalmbeaches #palmbeachcounty #wearepalmbeachcounty
@bocamuseum ・・・
Hank Willis Thomas’s 𝘎𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 appropriates Pablo Picasso’s 1937 work of the same title and size, remaking it as a quilt composed of
sports jerseys. Both works are political. Picasso was reacting to Francisco Franco’s bombing of the town Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. 𝘎𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 has come to symbolize the horrors of all wars and exist as a powerful anti-war statement. Thomas’s Guernica speaks to current wars across the globe and violence against blacks.
For Thomas, sport is a proxy for warfare. He says that “the demarcation of ‘us versus them’ appears throughout history and culture and there is nothing that humans will not use as a basis for division and presumed superiority.”
Installation view of Hank Willis Thomas, 𝘎𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢, 2017, sports jerseys from 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘴: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘛𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘶𝘨𝘴
#bocamuseumathome @hankwillisthomas
#bocamuseumfromhome #lovebocaraton #coolart #tapestry #artlife #artistatwork #picasso #guernica