The New York Times reported that the 1933 Mississippi -born actress who was the first African American to represent the United States at the 1972 Venice Biennale died at her home in Washington of kidney failure.
“Sam Gilliam is one of the giants today,” Base founder Arne Glimcher was quoted as saying.
As for David Kordansky from the exhibition of the same name, he noted that “Sam personalized the living spirit of freedom, achieved through courage, ferocity, sensitivity and poetry.”
Sam Gilliam’s art underwent a major change in the late 1960s when he released the canvases on which he painted from the wooden frames that painted them, leaving them hanging, for example, on the ceiling. or hanging on the wall. walls, called “curtains”, after which he had previously painted his colorful figures on canvas panels folded in front of the frame.
The two exhibitions added to a statement that “these revolutionary works (…) have changed the history of art” and felt that “Gilliam brought about a change (of painting) in which the painting was painted and its relation to The painting. ” in the spatial and architectural context in which it is viewed.
Please note that three “curtain” paintings are currently on display at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and will run until August 29, 2022.
Source: Al-Akhbar
