“‘I am a designer, an architect, a sculptor, engineer, artist,’ said Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948–2015). In the late 1970s in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), which was rapidly redefining itself following independence from Belgium, Kingelez began making intricately constructed sculptures of miniature… Read More
“In Russia in the early twentieth century, far-reaching artistic innovation and intense social and political turmoil were inextricably intertwined. During the early 1910s, under the tsarist autocracy that had ruled for three centuries, avant-garde artists sought to overthrow entrenched academic conventions by experimenting with complex… Read More
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