Julie Mehretu

MUSAC is holding the first solo exhibition in a European institution by Julie Mehretu, born in 1970 in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa (Africa) and currently living in the U.S. Under the title Black City, the show consists of more than twenty canvases of varying dimensions, almost half of which were produced recently. Afterwards, it will be travelling to the Kunstverein Hannover in Germany (February-April 2007) and the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark (May-August 2007). Through a superposition of layers of drawing and painting that depict and juxtapose lapses of her biography as well as political and social tensions caused by architecture and urban planning at the service of power, Black City is an overview of Mehretu’s latest works, from 2003 to the present.

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Julie Mehretu: Black City (Ciudad Negra)
Kurator: Agustin Perez Rubio
Koordination: Marta Gerveno