{"id":21981,"date":"2020-10-15T20:51:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=21981"},"modified":"2020-10-15T20:51:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:51:39","slug":"julie-mehretu-relations-diaspora-and-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/julie-mehretu-relations-diaspora-and-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Mehretu &#8211; RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tiRzBworpUM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (53:26): Cheryl Sim in conversation with artist Julie Mehretu about her works on display as a part of the group exhibition \u201cRELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting\u201d which runs through Nov. 29, 2020 at Phi Fundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Julie Mehretu makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas and overlaid with marks in pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint. Mehretu\u2019s work conveys a layering and compression of time, space and place, as well as a collapse of art-historical references, from the dynamism of the Italian futurists and the geometric abstraction of Malevich to the enveloping scale of abstract expressionist colour field painting. Through a cacophony of marks, her works seem to represent the speed of the modern city, depicted, perhaps contradictorily, with the timeless materials of pencil and paint&#8217;. &#8211; Phi Fundation for Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (53:26): Cheryl Sim in conversation with artist Julie Mehretu about her works on display as a part of the group exhibition \u201cRELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting\u201d which runs through Nov. 29, 2020 at Phi Fundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[983],"class_list":["post-21981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-talk","tag-julie-mehretu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}