To Die upon a Kiss
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“To die upon a kiss” are the dying words of Othello, the Black general in William Shakespeare’s play Othello, set in the 1500s in Venice, Italy. Long interested in the overlooked histories of the African diaspora and, in this work, people from Africa living in Venice, Fred Wilson began his series of sculptural chandeliers in 2003 when he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale (the premiere international survey of contemporary art occurring every two years). Like the complex histories they reference, these works are embedded with seeming contradiction: they are heavy yet fragile, dark yet luminous. Wilson describes his chandelier series, which he creates from Italian glass made on the island of Murano, as “a meditation on death, on Blackness, on beauty.”
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- 2012.115
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- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Billede: The Cleveland Museum of Art — © Fred Wilson
