サザビーズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (サザビーズInstagram)「Drawing on rhetorical passages from writers who negotiated the prospects of Blackness in an oppressively white America—including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston—Glenn Ligon fuses radically abstracted text with symbolic poeticism in ‘Untitled (I Lost My Voice I Found My Voice)’, the artist’s poignant visual metaphor for the fragmented experience and representation of both the Black individual and artist in the United States. The alternating repetition of “I LOST MY VOICE” and “I FOUND MY VOICE” evokes the poetic semantic devices Martin Luther King, Jr. used in his “I Have a Dream” speech in August 1963. As the text progresses and repeats, looping infinitely into a scream of defiance, its legibility diminishes, an infinite regression of senseless violence and persecution becoming more and more meaningless and incomprehensible. Acquired by Emily Fisher Landau the year it was made and remaining in her collection ever since, the work is distinguished for its inclusion in one of Ligon’s most important traveling retrospectives, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Its appearance at auction this November is a landmark event, and the first time in nearly a decade that a work from the series has come up for public sale. By @luciuss.elliott as part of our daily series The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: Twentieth Century Art in Twenty Unforgettable Works leading up to the Evening Sale on 8 November at #SothebysNewYork. Discover more in our link in bio. #TheFisherLandauLegacy #GlennLigon」10月21日 3時00分