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Six Bardos: Hymn (Behind the Sun)

2018
(American, b. 1970)
printer
(American, b. 1968)
publisher
Culture
America
Measurements
Image: 127.6 x 186.1 cm (50 1/4 x 73 1/4 in.)
Edition
17/45
Copyright
© Julie Mehretu
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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The prints of the series to which this work belongs are among the largest prints ever created by their publisher, Gemini G.E.L.

Description

Ethiopian-born contemporary artist Julie Mehretu draws from a wide range of source material, including maps, architectural renderings, found photography, and current events to create abstract images composed of gestural lines and forms. This print belongs to a series inspired by a trip to China’s Mogao Caves, each of which bear a title taken from Bardos—liminal states between life and death in Buddhism. Drawing from imagery such as calligraphy and ancient cave painting, the artist worked with a master printer to produce the etching in a large scale meant to create an absorptive experience for its viewer.
A horizontally oriented color aquatint on two panels features a dense layering of marks against a hazy gray and white background. Sinuous lines in red, yellow, green, and blue overlap thick black spray-painted shapes and fine scribbles. Drips of brown and tan pigment run toward the bottom edge. A dark birdlike silhouette occupies the top left corner. Schematic faces and figures emerge throughout the tangled web of colorful, frenetic lines.

Six Bardos: Hymn (Behind the Sun)

2018

Julie Mehretu, Case Hudson, Gemini G.E.L.

(American, b. 1970), (American, b. 1968)
America

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