via Visual AIDS >blog, 2/21/07 :
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts MoCADA
PRESENTS:THE POSTMILLENNIAL BLACK MADONNA AN EXHIBITION IN TWO PARTS:
PARADISE INFERNO
Curated by Danny Simmons and Brian Tate
Presented by Renee Cox and Wangechi Mutu
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN DIASPORAN ARTS
80 Hanson Place
Brooklyn, New York 11217Opening reception:
FEBRUARY 22, 2007
6:00PM - 9:00PM
www.mocada.orgIf it is the artist's role to trouble the comfortable and comfort the troubled, then the Black Madonna may be considered the artist's patron saint. She is a beacon of the defenseless and the defiant, the cast-aside and the changed. As our century speeds ahead, The Postmillenial Black Madonna Exhibition will give new focus to the troublemakers and the troubled- and their defender, the mesmerizing Triple Goddess of Creation, Preservation and Destruction, who promises that beyond the Inferno waits Paradise, and beneath Paradise burns the Inferno.
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