Art & Tradition
One painting featured on this exhibition, Condor and Mole , appears to illustrate the mysterious camaraderie indicated by the title of the exhibition and hyperlinks it to the veils of privacy Yiadom-Boakye brings to the painted picture . Condor and Mole portrays two Black girls on a seaside punctuated with darkish rocks; the tide pulls their shadows into tan and blue-grey sheens that continue into the horizon line. The women are turned to one another as they appear down into a dark crevice in the sand.
The Swiss artist, an early member of Dada, performed an integral position in the emergence of nonfigurative art, whether she was utilizing a brush or a needle. On the 15 October 2021, Edinburgh College of Art alumnus and art impresario Professor Richard Demarco planted a Beuys oak sapling from Loch Lomond next to a basaltic stone from Salisbury Crags on the grounds of ECA’s …