{"id":1813,"date":"2023-03-13T12:58:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:58:39","slug":"wangechi-mutus-excellent-new-museum-survey-transports-viewers-to-other-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/wangechi-mutus-excellent-new-museum-survey-transports-viewers-to-other-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wangechi Mutu\u2019s Excellent New Museum Survey Transports Viewers to Other Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-Install-6.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"A gallery with collages on its walls and large sculptures of fantastical beings, some of whom resemble mermaids and snakelike beings held in baskets.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Art historians, like emissaries of pretty much any other discipline, love to box people in, and part of the joy of\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_wangechi-mutu\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"wangechi-mutu\">Wangechi Mutu<\/a>\u2019s art is that it is virtually impossible to categorize\u2014a fact that her otherworldly survey at New York\u2019s\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_new-museum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"new-museum\">New Museum<\/a>\u00a0only seems to underline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">What might you call\u00a0<em>Moth Collection\u00a0<\/em>(2010): a painting, a sculpture, an installation, or some combination of the three? It\u2019s a piece comprising pairs of small porcelain legs affixed to the wall, each with oversize wings for a body. Some are arranged in uneven grids; others drift apart from those grids to float freely in space. The wall itself is thinly painted in cerulean that\u2019s left to drip down toward the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">And what might you say is depicted in\u00a0<em>Sleeping Serpent\u00a0<\/em>(2014), the 78-foot-long work that currently traverses much of the New Museum\u2019s third floor? As you walk along the snake-like form, following its curlicuing body, passing by its pregnant belly, you may be shocked to see the creature culminate in a sculpted human head that rests peacefully on a plush pillow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Countless other objects in Mutu\u2019s show attest to an artist who, in the past two decades, has built a universe that\u2019s all her own, replete with her own set of artistic rules.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-Install-24.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-Install-24.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-Install-24.jpg?resize=400,300 400w\" alt=\"A gallery with large red semi-abstract stories and, at its center, a long black sculpture resembling a pregnant snake with a human head resting on a pillow.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Installation view of\u00a0<em>Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined<\/em>, 2023, at the New Museum, New York.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">PHOTO DARIO LASAGNI<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Her excellent New Museum show, curated by Margot Norton and Vivian Crockett with Ian Wallace, arrives at a time when many younger artists are envisioning realms far removed from our own, populated by hybrid humans and bewitching animals. Few can hold a candle to the epic project that Mutu has undertaken, however. She is the rare artist whose work has grown only more convincing as it\u2019s become increasingly surreal over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Things start off in style on the first floor, with\u00a0<em>In Two Canoe<\/em>\u00a0(2022), the newest work in the show. Here, a pair of giant creatures, each with cabbage-like forms for faces, crouch in a low boat filled with water. Their arms split outward like the roots of mangrove trees, a plant that has \u201cmoved everywhere, has made journeys like those who were kidnapped from Africa and taken to the Americas,\u201d as Mutu once noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">This is not just a foray into fantasy. A Kenyan who studied art in the United States, Mutu is now based between New York and Nairobi. Her work, with its mashed-together mediums and cultural intermingling, is born of the same diasporic sensibility that has guided her life. Drawing on unreality is, for Mutu, a means of processing her reality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-Install-14.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-Install-14.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-Install-14.jpg?resize=400,300 400w\" alt=\"A large sculpture featuring two fantastical beings inside a canoe. Their arms look like tree roots, and their faces are covered in a ridged, lettuce-like form.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Installation view of\u00a0<em>Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined<\/em>, 2023, at the New Museum, New York.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">PHOTO DARIO LASAGNI<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The earliest works in the show evince that. Her 1997 \u201cBottle People\u201d series, made while Mutu was still a student at New York\u2019s Cooper Union art school and had few resources, features discarded beer bottles that she painted black and turned corporeal by way of cowrie shells that look like eyes. That Mutu could summon alien beings with such an economy of means is a testament to her talent from a young age. That she could incorporate references to so much history using so little\u2014cowrie shells were employed as currency between Africans who traded enslaved people, and the bottles look back to the altered found objects culled from urban detritus of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg\u2014is nothing short of astounding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">But it\u2019s the collages of the mid-2000s that made Mutu famous, and it\u2019s the collages many viewers will be here to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Some of the most provocative ones feature pornographic images of Black women. Her \u201cMUD\u201d works (2003) turn these sexualized pictures, in which little is left to the imagination, into something a lot more mysterious, with splotches of dried brown grime covering the more revealing bits. In one, a mass of filth appears to pour forth from one woman\u2019s genitals, hiding nearly all but one leg with a strappy high-heeled shoe on its foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The \u201cMUD\u201d works prove so striking because they undermine the piercing male gaze that has historically been cast upon models like these. Later collages grew in scale and ambition, and furthered that theme, similarly enlisting grotesquerie as a means of empowerment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-3.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-3.jpg?resize=400,279 400w\" alt=\"A two-part collage featuring a nude white figure leaned against a tree and a crouching Black woman amid grass. Splotches of red hang in the blue sky behind them. Mushrooms also float around them.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"836\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Wangechi Mutu,\u00a0<em>People in Glass Towers Should Not Imagine Us<\/em>, 2003.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">COURTESY THE ARTIST\/COLLECTION OF JEANNE GREENBERG ROHATYN AND NICOLAS ROHATYN, NEW YORK<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">There\u2019s the more-than-7-foot-wide\u00a0<em>Non, je ne regrette rien\u00a0<\/em>(2007), in which a busty woman kisses a snake, her head spraying red-brown blood as she does so; even grander ones feature beings with skin composed of blooms of yellow-green that look like pustules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Mutu\u2019s beautiful body horror reaches its climax with\u00a0<em>Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors<\/em>\u00a0(2006), a quiet shocker that features 12 images of Black faces comprising anatomical diagrams and pornography. Implicitly, the work alludes to the long history of medical experimentation performed on Black women, while also subverting it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Similar works were the main focus of Mutu\u2019s last major New York survey, at the Brooklyn Museum, a decade ago. It\u2019s rare for an artist to have one big New York museum show during their lifetime, and rarer still to have two. One could argue that the second one is premature, given that Mutu only just turned 50 last year. The New Museum show is amply justified, however, because it affords so much space to her work in other mediums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Hats off to Crockett and Norton for placing such emphasis on Mutu\u2019s videos, a part of her practice that doesn\u2019t get enough attention. Some take the form of private performances done only for her camera. There\u2019s\u00a0<em>Cleaning Earth<\/em>\u00a0(2006), in which Mutu, working on her hands and knees, scrubs away at a patch of land behind her Brooklyn brownstone. In the course of 25 minutes, the ground remains just as dirty as before. We observe Mutu\u2019s labor acutely, but it would go unrecognized by anyone looking at the land. What a shame this video is relegated to the museum\u2019s basement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-6.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-6.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-6.jpg?resize=400,225 400w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-6.jpg?resize=125,70 125w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-6.jpg?resize=681,383 681w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-6.jpg?resize=450,253 450w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-6.jpg?resize=250,140 250w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-6.jpg?resize=296,166 296w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-6.jpg?resize=248,139 248w\" alt=\"A Black woman carrying a wheel, buildings, and more on her back before a sunset.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Wangechi Mutu,\u00a0<em>The End of carrying All<\/em>, 2015.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">COURTESY THE ARTIST AND GLADSTONE GALLERY, VICTORIA MIRO, AND VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">At least\u00a0<em>The End of carrying All\u00a0<\/em>(2015), which premiered at the 2015 Venice Biennale, is presented front and center, its sounds allowed to rumble throughout the sizable gallery that houses\u00a0<em>Sleeping Serpent<\/em>. The animation follows a woman (Mutu) who ascends a hill. She bends over slightly as she carries a building, a giant wheel, and other objects on her back\u2014the weight of the world. When she finally makes it to the peak, she transmutes into a gelatinous blob that glows red and pink. In the end, this creature slides off the cliffside, leaving behind a slimy trail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Moving from one place to another and becoming something else in between: this is the central theme that guides many of Mutu\u2019s gorgeous sculptures from the past decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Some from recent years underscore the spirituality that has long hung in the background of Mutu\u2019s art. There are large bronze sculptures that feature beings inside oversize\u00a0<em>Kikap\u00fa<\/em>\u00a0baskets, smaller versions of which artisans regularly sell in Kenya. One features a serpentine form that would appear threatening were it not so gorgeous; its name is\u00a0<em>Nyoka<\/em>\u00a0(2022), the Swahili word for snake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-7.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-7.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mutu-7.jpg?resize=400,570 400w\" alt=\"A sculpture of a reddish female form ensconced in a branch.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1711\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Wangechi Mutu,\u00a0<em>Sentinel I<\/em>, 2018.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">COURTESY THE ARTIST AND VICTORIA MIRO, LONDON\/YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \"><em>The Seated I<\/em>\u00a0(2019), a kneeling figure with a plate in its mouth, has traveled downtown from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which commissioned the piece for a niche within its facade. It loses some of its mystique at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">New Museum<\/a>, whose clinical galleries unfortunately seem to tame and diminish it, but even so, the sculpture feels as though it has opened a portal to another world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">For my money, the timeliest series of work in a New York museum right now is one in this exhibition: a grouping of eight sculptures that depict blown-up versions of viruses that have ravaged the global populace. Covid isn\u2019t represented, but pathogens like Zika, named after the Ugandan forest where it was first isolated, are. Some of these sculptures were made before the pandemic, while others\u2014like one depicting the common cold\u2014came along during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Covid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">As diseases continue to smash through the immune systems of many, these sculptures hit a nerve. The reason, however, is not that they evoke so much death and destruction, but rather that they are such attractive objects. Covered in an admixture of reddish Kenyan soil and paper pulp that Mutu has termed \u201cporridge,\u201d they exude an aesthetic charm that\u2019s infectious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Mutu\u2019s work has never provided direct statements, and the virus sculptures place among her most challenging efforts to date. They propose these diseases as something transcendent\u2014something that can bind peoples across the globe. After all, what\u2019s disgusting can be beautiful, and what\u2019s alluring can be abject. It\u2019s never one or the other for Mutu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art historians, like emissaries of pretty much any other discipline, love to box people in, and part of the joy of\u00a0Wangechi Mutu\u2019s art is that it is virtually impossible to categorize\u2014a fact that her otherworldly survey at New York\u2019s\u00a0New Museum\u00a0only seems to underline. 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