Jafa, Arthur

Cassie [LTD ED #/50 - 14 x 10.8 INCH ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINT FROM LOVE IS THE MESSAGE - THE MESSAGE IS DEATH]

Blackstar, 2021. Blackstar, 2021. Arthur Jafa, Cassie 2016 (printed 2021) - from Jaffa's book: Love is the Message - The Message is Death (2016). 14in x 10.8in Archival Pigment Print issued in a limited edition of only 50. The print is unsigned but is numbered in pencil on the verso #16/50. CONDITION: New/Mint.

Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi) is an artist, filmmaker and cinematographer (BSFF14, BSFF16, BSFF19). Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media such as objects, static and moving images, transmit the equivalent "power, beauty and alienation" embedded within forms of Black music in US culture? Jafa’s films have garnered acclaim at the Los Angeles, New York and BlackStar Film Festivals and his artwork is represented in celebrated collections worldwide including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Tate, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The High Museum Atlanta, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Stedelijk, Luma Foundation, The Pérez Art Museum Miami, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. Jafa has recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions of his work at the Pérez Art Museum Miami the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Modern Museet, Stockholm; and the Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark. In 2019, he received th Golden Lion for the Best Participant of the 58th Venice Biennale “May You Live in Interesting Times.”. New. Item #3824

Price: $750.00