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WILLIAM VILLALONGO

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: A painting incorporating images of gloved hands presenting a cascade of lobster, paper boat, and aquarium containing an African sculpture.

WILLIAM VILLALONGO

Still Life with Aquarium, 2021
Acrylic and velvet flock on wood panel
72 x 36 x 2 in.
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'Still Life with Aquarium' directly references European and Dutch still life painting from the colonial era, a genre known as “memento mori” that pointed metaphorically to human mortality in a...
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"Still Life with Aquarium" directly references European and Dutch still life painting from the colonial era, a genre known as “memento mori” that pointed metaphorically to human mortality in a rich display of colonial plunder. Usually thought of as benign grouping of objects, the artist sees in these paintings stories of colonialism, ill-gotten gains and black labor. Often, the work incorporated images of black “servant boys,” just visible outside the frame deployed to serve as symbol of the European subject’s wealth. Such paintings express the paradoxical visibility and invisibility of black people within the European colonial world.
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Exhibitions

"William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations," Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA, 26 January 2024 - 6 April 2024; traveled to the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, 4 May 2024 - 18 August 2024; Museum of Art, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 13 September - 21 December 2024; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 15 May 2025 - 31 August 2025.
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