I chose this piece of fine art to write about because it was the first time I saw anything from Wangechi Mutu in person, and since i've been loving this artist forever i was very much impressed. Pretty much
anything done by her inspires me to the core, since i find her pieces both visually expressive
and utterly symbolic in relation to her background, therefore the media used and the way she combines elements in her collages tell a story (which will be later explained) and also amaze the eye that hungers for beauty.
I believe her work can be a brilliant source of inspiration for an animation both conceptually and physically. Conceptually, because her art "aspire a super race, by-products of a troubled and imposed evolution". She references colonial history, fashion and contemporary african politics." From corruption and violence Mutu creates a glamourous beauty. Needless to say, her work can be of great influ
ence to our "Amnesty International" project as well. Physically because by drawing from the aesthetics of traditional african crafts, Mutu engages in her own form of story telling. By piercing together magazine imagery with painted surfaces and found materials, this artists shows how by mixing media an original result can be made in a surprising and shocking way.
"Mutu’s elaborate figurative paintings incorporate collaged materials from a variety of sources including medical journals, ethnographic photo-essays, fashion, wildlife and pornographic magazines. In this double profile, the larger, lower, head is mainly in earth tones, and includes collaged images of a begging figure and a jewelled hand. The smaller head is lushly coloured and partly built-up in layers of a moss-like plant substance. The entire construction suggests a conflation between natural and artificial constructions of beauty and plenty." - (From the display caption Tate Modern January 2009)
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