Double Fuse (Panel 1 of 2)
Wangechi Mutu, Kenyan, born 19722003
Ink and collage on Mylar
Panel: 44 15/16 × 36 1/8 in. (114.1 × 91.8 cm)
Overall: 90 × 72 in. (228.6 × 182.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Charles F. Venrick 1936 Fund
© Wangechi Mutu
MIS.2003.38.1
Geography/Culture
Africa, Eastern Africa, Kenya
Period
21st century
Object Name
Mixed Media
Classification
Mixed Media
Africa
Not on view
Inscription
Signed and dated, in ink, lower right: Wangechi Mutu c[circled] 2003
Course History
ARTH 89.05, Art History: Theory and Method, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Fall 2019
AAAS 67.5, GEOG 21.01, Black Consciousness and Black Feminisms, Abigail Neely, Winter 2019
ARTH 17.2, AAAS 80.5, Twentieth-Century African Art , Ugochukwu Smooth Nzwei, Spring 2015
WRIT 5, After Humans, Christian Haines, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Wangechi Mutu, Musee D'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 2-April 22, 2012.
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, September 10-December 5, 2009.
Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 16, 2003-April 28, 2004.
Global Contemporary: A Focus on Africa, Churchill and Dorothy Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-April 14, 2019.
Deitch Projects, New York, New York, 2003.
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Art and / as Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 2006-March 11, 2007.
Publication History
Josée Belisle, Wangechi Mutu, Montreal: Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, 2012: ill. p. 43.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.148, no.122.
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 326, plate 108.
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 32.
Provenance
Deitch Projects, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2003.
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