Double Fuse (Panel 2 of 2)
Wangechi Mutu, Kenyan, born 19722003
Ink and collage on mylar
Panel: 44 13/16 × 36 1/8 in. (113.8 × 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
MIS.2003.38.2
Geography/Culture
Africa, Eastern Africa, Kenya
Period
21st century
Object Name
Art: Mixed Media
Classification
Africa
Mixed Media
On view
Inscription
Signed and dated, in ink, lower right: c[circled] Wangechi Mutu 2003
Course History
WRIT 5, After Humans, Christian Haines, Winter 2015
SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, Painting III, Jennifer Caine, Fall 2014
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.
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; sold to present collection, 2003.
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