Double Fuse
Wangechi Mutu, Kenyan, born 1972
2003
Ink and collage on Mylar
Panel: 44 15/16 × 36 1/8 in. (114.1 × 91.8 cm)
Overall: 90 × 72 in. (228.6 × 182.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Charles F. Venrick 1936 Fund
© Wangechi Mutu
MIS.2003.38ab
Geography
Place Made: Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa
Period
21st century
Object Name
Mixed Media
Research Area
Painting
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in ink, lower right: Wangechi Mutu c[circled] 2003
Course History
THEA 10.64/AAAS 54.05/WGSS 66.15, Feminist and Queer Africa on Stage and Screen, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2022
GEOG 72.01/AAAS 67.50/WGSS 66.09, Black Consciousness Black Feminism, Abby Neely, Spring 2022
THEA 21/WGSS 59.04, Race, Gender, Performance, Laura Edmondson, Spring 2022
HIST 5.08/AAAS 19, Africa and the World, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Summer 2022
HIST 5.08/AAAS 19, Africa and the World, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Summer 2022
HIST 5.08/AAAS 19, Africa and the World, Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Summer 2022
Humanities 2.01, The Modern Labyrinth, Lucas Hollister, Petra McGillen, Andrea Tarnowski, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2023
Anthropology 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2023
Theater 10.64, African and African-American Studies 54.05, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 66.15, Feminist and Queer Africa, Laura Edmondson, Spring 2023
Studio Art 77.01, Senior Seminar II, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2023
Studio Art 77.02, Senior Seminar II, Jen Caine, Spring 2023
English 53.22, Science Fiction Studies, Aden Evans, Fall 2023
Writing 5.14, Metamorphosis and Otherness, Min Young Godley, Fall 2023
Writing 5.15, Metamorphosis and Otherness, Min Young Godley, Fall 2023
Latino Studies 7.01, Science Fictions of Color, Marcela Di Blasi, Winter 2024
Writing 5.16, Metamorphosis and Otherness, Min Young Godley, Winter 2024
Writing 5.17, Metamorphosis and Otherness, Min Young Godley, Winter 2024
Exhibition History
Art and / as Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 2006-March 11, 2007.
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Deitch Projects, New York, New York, 2003.
Global Contemporary: A Focus on Africa, Churchill and Dorothy Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-April 14, 2019.
Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 16, 2003-April 28, 2004.
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, September 10-December 5, 2009.
Wangechi Mutu, Musee D'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 2-April 22, 2012.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 32.
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 326, plate 108.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.148, no.122.
Josée Belisle, Wangechi Mutu, Montreal: Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, 2012: ill. p. 43.
Provenance
Deitch Projects, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2003.
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