Robert Mapplethorpe
Grace Jones (1984)
Gelatin Silver Print
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York '07
This piece by Robert Mapplethorpe was part of the contentious show "Primitivism Revisited" back in 2007 at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. This show not only showed the so called "erratic" "relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas", but illustrated compensation to cultural meaning with relegation to non-Western art which supports the role in the story of Western Modernism.
In the 1980's, Multiculturalist thinking was to redefine the simple terms: "art," "African," "Modernism," and "universal." Currently these ideas and expressions are still being re-invented and embellished.
The show consisted of mixed contemporary art with Western and African-born artists, along with traditional and tourist art. The show also examined "authenticity, spiritual utility and cross-cultural perception."
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