{"id":151517,"date":"2021-03-19T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=151517"},"modified":"2021-03-19T11:15:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:15:34","slug":"blueprints-for-another-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/19\/blueprints-for-another-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueprints for Another World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julie Mehretu frequently has been hailed as an heir to Jackson Pollock. But where many of Pollock\u2019s paintings seem divorced from real-world antecedents, Mehretu blends abstraction and representation in open response to current events: the Arab Spring, deadly wildfires on the West Coast of the United States, the burning of Rohingya villages in Myanmar, the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Some of her paintings and works on paper look like warped views of cities from above; others resemble blueprints for another world. Always, though, amid the layers and layers of symbols, shapes, vectors, and lines, one can see Mehretu\u2019s architectural precision and control. An exhibition showcasing more than twenty years of her work<\/a> will open at the Whitney Museum of American Art on March 25 and run through August 8. A selection of images from the show appears below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Julie Mehretu, Black City<\/em>, 2007, ink and acrylic on canvas, 120 x 192″. Pinault Collection, Paris, France. \u00a9 Julie Mehretu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Julie Mehretu, Untitled 2<\/em>, 1999, ink and polymer on canvas mounted to board, 59 3\/4 \u00d7 71 3\/4″. Private collection, courtesy of White Cube. \u00a9 Julie Mehretu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Julie Mehretu, Migration Direction Map (large)<\/em>, 1996, ink on mylar, 22 x 15″. Private collection. \u00a9 Julie Mehretu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Julie Mehretu, Conjured Parts (eye), Ferguson<\/em>, 2016, ink and acrylic on canvas, 84 x 96″. The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles. \u00a9 Julie Mehretu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Julie Mehretu, Mind-Wind Field Drawings (quarantine studio, d.h.) #1<\/em>, 2019\u20132020, ink and acrylic on paper, 26 x 40″. Private collection, courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery New York\/Paris. \u00a9 Julie Mehretu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Julie Mehretu, Hineni (E. 3:4)<\/em>, 2018, ink and acrylic on canvas, 96 \u00d7 120″. Centre Pompidou, Paris, Mus\u00e9e national d\u2019art moderne\/Centre de cr\u00e9ation industrielle; gift of George Economou, 2019. \u00a9 Julie Mehretu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Julie Mehretu, Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation<\/em>, 2001, ink and acrylic on canvas, 101 1\/2 \u00d7 208 1\/2″. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas 2013.28. \u00a9 Julie Mehretu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Julie Mehretu, Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts) (1 of 4)<\/em>, 2012, ink and acrylic on canvas, 180 \u00d7 144″. Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. \u00a9 Julie Mehretu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cJulie Mehretu<\/a>\u201d will open at the Whitney Museum of American Art on March 25 and run through August 8.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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