About The Work
In Time Can Pass Fast or Slowly, Enrique Chagoya layers hand-painted acrylic colors and printed elements on gessoed amate paper to arrive at a visually sumptuous (and very funny) composition. In 1995, Chagoya was invited to complete a residency at Monet’s gardens in Giverny, giving him an opportunity to paint the same locations that Monet had depicted nearly a century earlier. Here, an idyllic background reminiscent of Monet’s 1899 painting Water Lily Pond is the setting for an episode of Chagoya’s trademark “reverse anthropology,” inverting a Eurocentric approach to art and appropriation by imagining an Africanesque statue nibbling on an unfortunate, Picasso-like Frenchman.
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About Enrique Chagoya
Mixed media with acrylic on gessoed amate paper
40.50 x 40.75 in
102.9 x 103.5 cm
Signed by the artist.
About The Work
In Time Can Pass Fast or Slowly, Enrique Chagoya layers hand-painted acrylic colors and printed elements on gessoed amate paper to arrive at a visually sumptuous (and very funny) composition. In 1995, Chagoya was invited to complete a residency at Monet’s gardens in Giverny, giving him an opportunity to paint the same locations that Monet had depicted nearly a century earlier. Here, an idyllic background reminiscent of Monet’s 1899 painting Water Lily Pond is the setting for an episode of Chagoya’s trademark “reverse anthropology,” inverting a Eurocentric approach to art and appropriation by imagining an Africanesque statue nibbling on an unfortunate, Picasso-like Frenchman.
Courtesy of Magnolia Editions
About Enrique Chagoya
Published by Magnolia Editions.
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