Betye Saar
Still Tickin’
Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands.
Until November 15, 2015
About:
Sunny Land (on the dark side), 1998.
Wizard, 1972
The American artist Betye Saar (Los Angeles, 1926) is one of the most important artists of her generation. Saar has been recognized since the 1960s for her feminist-oriented work that reflects on African-American identity, spirituality and the connectedness between different cultures. This first museum solo exhibition in Europe has the character of a retrospective. In close collaboration with the artist older and more recent assemblages, works on paper, sculptures and installations specially reconstructed for this occasion have been selected. Saar’s oeuvre, covering six decades, will be displayed on the basis of three central themes: nostalgia and remembering; mysticism and ritual; the construction of political and racial images.
Pour Vous Madame, 1999.
Imitation of Life, 19??
Betye Saar’s first museum solo in Europe has a retrospective character. She shows both older and new assemblies, works on paper, sculptures and installation within an intrusive exhibition design that is created by the artist herself. Saar’s body of work comprises six decades and is shown according to three themes that play a prominent role in her practise: nostalgia and memory; mysticism and ritual; political and racial representation. (text website Domein)