Red Blanket And Devine
Provenance : [Propriété non datée]
- This work has been kindly donated by the artist
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Notes : Henry Mujunga ‘Mzili’ (b. 1971, Uganda) is an artist whose works reference his immediate environment. Fascinated by mundane human scenes and by the delicacy of plants and flowers he establishes intimate connection with his subjects. Family is currently one of the most common motifs in his paintings, where he creates scenarios of heroism – the intimate and every-day kind of heroism which brings to light human strength and empathy. Red Blanket and Devine is a contemplation of our present in relation to the past. It shows a woman joyfully playing a West African talking drum as she is lying down on a blanket. An ancestral sculpture to the left of the figure represents the past; a mask/net covering her face represents the present. The figure can be interpreted as the medium playing the talking drum as a means to communicate between the past and the present.
Condition_report : Structure: The work is executed on canvas and stretched with standard woods stretchers. Surface: The surface of the work is stable.
