Glenn Ligon: Post-noir, 24 Jun 2022 — 20 Nov 2022
Exhibitions

Glenn Ligon: Post-noir

Glenn Ligon's solo exhibition at Carré d'Art in Nîmes

Carré d’Art, Pl. de la Maison Carrée, 30000 Nîmes, Francia

The first room of the exhibition brings together a selection of “America” light installations. Begun in 2008, these neons transform the word “America” by covering it in black paint, flipping, reversing, or animating it, treating it as linguistic material to be manipulated and changed. In his large-format oil and serigraph “Debris Field” paintings, the artist focuses his attention on isolated letterforms and non-linguistic mark making rather than legible words. These forms float on the surface of the canvas, generating a series of rhythmic improvised compositions and ultimately create an open-ended system that allows the artist to explore, in his own words, “the possibility of meaning, the elements of meaning.” A monumental new diptych from the “Stranger” series is also presented. It incorporates the entire text of James Baldwin’s seminal 1953 essay, “Stranger in the Village” in which Baldwin recounts his stay in a tiny Swiss village, where most of the inhabitants had never encountered a black man before. Also on view are paintings inspired by workshops with young children as part of a residency at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1999–2000. Ligon chose Afrocentric illustrations from the 1960s and 70s for the children to color in, and then reproduced the results on large canvases to create a painting series called “Coloring”.

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Carré d’Art, Pl. de la Maison Carrée, 30000 Nîmes, Francia
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