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Make America Great Again: Awol Erizku, Ben Brown Fine Arts

20 Apr 17 – 02 Jun 17, Closed Sunday, Mon - Fri 11am - 6pm Sat 10.30am - 2.30pm

A young LA- and NY-based photo sensation takes on America's bigotry and racism in the heart of Mayfair

By CW Contributor on 20/4/2017

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Make America Great Again: Awol Erizku, Ben Brown Fine Arts
Make America Great Again: Awol Erizku, Ben Brown Fine Arts
Make America Great Again: Awol Erizku, Ben Brown Fine Arts Make America Great Again: Awol Erizku, Ben Brown Fine Arts Ella Cory-Wright
It was – and remains – this year’s internet photo sensation... pregnant, blossoming Beyoncé under an ultra sheer white veil, looking to camera, side on, ripe with two children, in bra and mismatched satin briefs, and backed by a Technicolor floral triumphal arch and the bluest of blue skies. Total artifice, of course – and instantly Instagrammed millions upon millions of times around the globe.


That is how an über-celebrity pregnancy is announced in 2017. The image, an instant icon, was the creation of one of the sharpest young blades in American photography’s top drawer.


Awol Erizku, in his late twenties but firmly established as a major force in image-making, set up the whole Beyoncé shot and clicked the button. It’s his work, every historic pixel of it. After studying art in New York, his first show was only as recently as 2012, picturing black sitters in classic Western art poses. Knowing jokeyness abounds in Erizku’s work – riffing on Vermeer in his 2012 work Girl with a Bamboo Earring, and referencing Duchamp and hip-hop.


Now based in New York and Los Angeles, Erizku is showing a selection of new work at Ben Brown Fine Art, in Mayfair – his first show in Europe. The exhibition – Make America Great Again, named after Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign slogan that was re-used by Donald Trump – is a response to what the artist describes as the ‘racism and bigotry’ on the rise in the US. A great chance to see a US photography star rising over Europe.


What Make America Great Again: Awol Erizku, Ben Brown Fine Arts
Where Ben Brown Fine Arts, 12 Brook's Mews, London, W1K 4DG | MAP
Nearest tube Green Park (underground)
When 20 Apr 17 – 02 Jun 17, Closed Sunday, Mon - Fri 11am - 6pm Sat 10.30am - 2.30pm
Price £Free
Website Click here for more information



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