(i) Black (ii) White

Details

Kent Henricksen (B. 1974)
(i) Black (ii) White
each: signed 'Kent Henricksen' (on the stretcher)
embroidery thread on linen in artist's frames, in two parts
each: 14 5/8 x 17 ½in. (37 x 44.5cm.)
Executed in 2005

Provenance

John Connelly Presents, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Literature

L. Andriolo, Kent Henricksen: A Season of Delight, Turin 2007 (illustrated, p. 74).

Exhibited

New York, John Connelly Presents, Divine Deviltries, 2007.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Kent Henricksen’s White and Black take a comic approach to the charged history surrounding the Ku Klux Klan and their controversial racial politics. There is something both enticing and foreboding about the transposition of the KKK’s signature white cloak into a cartoonish mummy wrapping, especially in Black, where a nocturnal setting leaves only the figures glowing eyes readily visible within a black-on-black composition.

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