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Play of Space / Space of Play

Ronny Quevedo

Play of Space / Space of Play

2018

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Ronny Quevedo

Play of Space / Space of Play

2018

Physical Qualities Metal leaf on paper, Sheet: 1064 × 654 mm. (41 7/8 × 25 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Sidney M. Friedberg Acquisitions Endowment for Prints and Drawings
Object Number 2022.200
Ronny Quevedo used gold leaf on carbon paper to reference the colonial exploitation and conquest of the Americas, a history driven, in large part, by the European desire for precious metals extracted from the earth. Black letters and arrows combine, here, with lines that simultaneously reference latitude and longitude on maps and the markings on a soccer field. The imprint of a tailor’s ruler along the top edge references the artist’s mother, who worked as a seamstress in New York City’s garment district. As a whole, the print meditates on the intersection between contemporary popular culture and global migration.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2022; Alexander Gray Associates, New York
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Artist

Ronny Quevedo

1980–2000

Ecuadorian, born 1981
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