Justin R. Thompson
New York, 1979
JUSTIN R. THOMPSON
New York, USA, 1979
Received the Fundación Botín Art Grant in 2013
Captives Buffoons and an Ensign Bearer, 2015
Stretcher, cushion made from canvas, small cotton box with nails, stretcher, staff with drum, and wooden ladder
Gift of the artist, 2015
Captives Buffoons and an Ensign Bearer is a series of large-scale sculptural canvases that re-elaborate the painting of the same title by Andrea Mantegna investing them with shifted sociopolitical implications.
The works connect Mantegna’s representations of captives of war and court entertainers with the architecture erected as a sign of victory by romans and subsequently fascists in Africa. The painting are created with various tones of shoe polish and are stretched over sculptural stretcher bars based on the architecture of Triumphant arches erected in Africa over a 3,000 year history of conquest.
Justin R. Thompson
New York, 1979
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