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The intertwining of the homoerotic and the orientalist finds compelling new tension in Wherein Difference Lies, a new show of Scottish artist Richard Maguire, his debut exhibition in New York.
Comprising 16 small graphite drawings by Maguire that trace and explore the diverse, secretive ways that “sensitive” images have been disseminated over the centuries, the show revolves around largely forgotten figure Ram Gopal, a charismatic pioneer of classical Indian dance largely credited with bringing the art form to the West in the mid-20th century.
Working from a wealth of historic images, Maguire uses the myriad aspects of Gopal’s exotic-coded artistry as a stalking-horse to explore larger themes of sexual and political friction between East and West.
For example, one multi-layered source of imagery is derived from an intimate photoshoot from early 1938 in New York City with American writer-photographer Carl Van Vechten, who was a prominent white patron of the Harlem Renaissance…
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The intertwining of the homoerotic and the orientalist finds compelling new tension in Wherein Difference Lies, a new show of Scottish artist Richard Maguire, his debut exhibition in New York.
Comprising 16 small graphite drawings by Maguire that trace and explore the diverse, secretive ways that “sensitive” images have been disseminated over the centuries, the show revolves around largely forgotten figure Ram Gopal, a charismatic pioneer of classical Indian dance largely credited with bringing the art form to the West in the mid-20th century.
Working from a wealth of historic images, Maguire uses the myriad aspects of Gopal’s exotic-coded artistry as a stalking-horse to explore larger themes of sexual and political friction between East and West.
For example, one multi-layered source of imagery is derived from an intimate photoshoot from early 1938 in New York City with American writer-photographer Carl Van Vechten, who was a prominent white patron of the Harlem Renaissance…
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