Lance
Belanger: Tango
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In Lance Belanger: Tango, the Native artist outlines the similarities between Canadian Indians and Gypsies while Lippard contextualizes Belanger's political and artmaking practices. Since 1991, the artist has incorporated spheres of various sizes into his sculpture and installation works. Vestiges of Taino culture found in Central America, originally of stone, are recreated by Lance Belanger in gold, silver and black using diverse materials. Spheres, large and small, are integral to the installation Neo Lithic Tango, 1994-1995, conçue pour l'exposition à la Galerie d'art d'Ottawa. They serve as a contemporary vehicle of artistic expression that reflects the artist's Maliseet heritage and the issue of the perception of cultural identities and perspectives, inviting a reassessment of the status of the object in the museum context. Other familiar elements of the artist's past work, such as the ornately-framed Jackelopes, are also present. 20 $ |
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