Bodys Isek Kingelez
Black Tower
1999
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Bodys Isek Kingelez
Black Tower
1999
Physical Qualities
Paperboard, plastic, colored paper, push pins, porous-tip pen, paint, and graphite, 28 5/8 × 10 1/8 × 14 3/16 in. (72.6 × 25.7 × 36.1 cm.)
Credit Line
The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number
2023.95
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase at Someday Gallery, 2023-present; Natalie Seroussi, by purchase, October 2020-June 2023; Luc Lauras, by purchase from the artist, 2000-2020.
"The Future Won't Be Long Now," Someday Gallery in New York, March 2 - April 1, 2023
"Kings of Kin: Bodys Isek Kingelez, Moké, Chéri Samba," Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, September 12 - October 10, 2020
"Kings of Kin: Bodys Isek Kingelez, Moké, Chéri Samba," Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, September 12 - October 10, 2020
Artist
Bodys Isek Kingelez
1947–2014
born Kimbembele-Ihunga, Belgian Congo 1948 - died Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo 2015
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