As promised, I am able to report that the installation for the upcoming exhibition Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora is going well. Most of the major works of art have been installed including Dispersion by Julie Mehretu seen here on the left.
Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Leesa Fanning writes about the painting:
"Julie Mehretu’s Dispersion is composed of intricately arranged ribbons of color, amorphous and hard-edge shapes, cartoon-like explosions and structural lines with geometric and architectural references. Within this maelstrom of activity are trajectories of swift motion and recession into space. Functioning as a futuristic diagram, Dispersion’s forms suggest psychological processes, imaginary societies and instantaneous global communications in cyberspace."
Another work of art that fascinates me is called Hovor by El Anastui (seen on the far wall above). It is made of recycled aluminum liquor-bottle tops that have been flattened and stitched together using copper wire. Fanning describes Hover as "an amazing transformation of humble, recycled liquor-bottle tops into a visually compelling sculpture."