El anatsui jack shainman gallery kinderhook
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Stressed World
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Press Release
Stressed World
June 5 – December 3, 2022
The School | 25 Broad Street, Kinderhook, NY
Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Stressed World, on view at The School through December 3rd, 2022.
The exhibition takes its name from the title of Ghanaian-born artist El Anatsui’s large-scale sculpture composed of thousands of folded pieces of discarded aluminum and copper wire. Throwing light on the long shadow of colonialism while also forming a blueprint for an alternative future, Anatsui’s Stressed World (2011) sets the tone for the exhibition, which includes 30 artists working from their own corners of an exhausted planet.
This transnational and multigenerational grouping of artists have developed strategies for navigating the precarity of contemporary life, utilizing methods and materials as varied as the topics they address.
The thoughtfully-rendered and meticulously-crafted works in Stressed World remind us tha