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Donnez votre main: Hank Willis Thomas

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Donnez votre main
, Gallery | Brussels, 23.04 - 29.06.2019Hank Willis Thomas

Donnez votre main: Hank Willis Thomas

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Donnez votre main, Hank Willis Thomas

As an expression of consciousness and the perception of reality, Surrealism and Abstraction become vehicles of liberation and possibility.

MARUANI MERCIER Gallery is pleased to present Hank Willis Thomas’ second solo exhibition at the Brussels gallery. Well-known for his interest in the framing and context of history and perspective, this new body of work marks a progression in Thomas' critique of the construction of identity, power, and popular culture in the western imagination.
 
As an expression of consciousness and the perception of reality, Surrealism and Abstraction become vehicles of liberation and possibility. Using these movements as a jumping off point both aesthetically and conceptually, this exhibition focuses on the relationships drawn between art history, the history of Belgium, colonialism and the history of the Congo. Through a variety of mediums, Thomas presents a visual timeline as a way to draw new connections between the history of art and conquest, and the subversion of colonialism.
 
Through visual layering of historical archives, art historial tropes, and references to popular culture, Thomas reveals how power relations, the struggle for independence, and the establishment of trade and popular culture have been constructed by and large in the western imagination.
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Works
  • Hank Willis Thomas, C'est moi qui te regarde (Mobutu), 2019
    Hank Willis Thomas, C'est moi qui te regarde (Mobutu), 2019
  • Hank Willis Thomas Vivid Imagination (rainbow on blue), 2019 screenprint on retroreflective vinyl mounted on Dibond unique work 86.36 x 121.92 cm 34 x 48 in Framing Dimensions: 87.8 x 123.5 x 4.5 cm
    Hank Willis Thomas
    Vivid Imagination (rainbow on blue), 2019
    screenprint on retroreflective vinyl mounted on Dibond
    unique work
    86.36 x 121.92 cm
    34 x 48 in
    Framing Dimensions: 87.8 x 123.5 x 4.5 cm
  • HWT13.010 If I could tell the story in words lr
    Hank Willis Thomas
    If I could tell the story in words, 2013
    mounted digital c-prints and stained African Mahogany
    121.285 x 121.92 x 9.2075 cm
    47 3/4 x 48 x 3 5/8 in
  • Hank Willis Thomas, C'est moi qui te regarde (Mobutu), 2019
    Hank Willis Thomas, C'est moi qui te regarde (Mobutu), 2019
  • Hank Willis Thomas Vivid Imagination (rainbow on blue), 2019 screenprint on retroreflective vinyl mounted on Dibond unique work 86.36 x 121.92 cm 34 x 48 in Framing Dimensions: 87.8 x 123.5 x 4.5 cm
    Hank Willis Thomas
    Vivid Imagination (rainbow on blue), 2019
    screenprint on retroreflective vinyl mounted on Dibond
    unique work
    86.36 x 121.92 cm
    34 x 48 in
    Framing Dimensions: 87.8 x 123.5 x 4.5 cm
  • HWT13.010 If I could tell the story in words lr
    Hank Willis Thomas
    If I could tell the story in words, 2013
    mounted digital c-prints and stained African Mahogany
    121.285 x 121.92 x 9.2075 cm
    47 3/4 x 48 x 3 5/8 in
News
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    Middelheim Museum 7.5.2021
    Op de plek waar in 1920 de Koloniale Hogeschool werd opgericht, bevinden zich vandaag zowel het Middelheimmuseum als de Universiteit Antwerpen. Honderd jaar later vormt...
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  • Hank Willis Thomas’s Colonialism and Abstract Art

    Hank Willis Thomas’s Colonialism and Abstract Art

    MoMA 15.9.2020
    The artist reimagines Alfred H. Barr’s “Cubism and Abstract Art” diagram. by Hank Willis Thomas and Sarah Meister for MoMA Hank Willis Thomas helps us...
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  • Hedendaagse kunstenaars bewandelen koloniale sporen

    Hedendaagse kunstenaars bewandelen koloniale sporen

    Middelheim Museum 7.5.2021
    Op de plek waar in 1920 de Koloniale Hogeschool werd opgericht, bevinden zich vandaag zowel het Middelheimmuseum als de Universiteit Antwerpen. Honderd jaar later vormt...
    Read more
  • Hank Willis Thomas’s Colonialism and Abstract Art

    Hank Willis Thomas’s Colonialism and Abstract Art

    MoMA 15.9.2020
    The artist reimagines Alfred H. Barr’s “Cubism and Abstract Art” diagram. by Hank Willis Thomas and Sarah Meister for MoMA Hank Willis Thomas helps us...
    Read more

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