Brothers in Red
2020
Emmanuel Taku's mixed media work combines acrylic paint with newspaper collage elements on canvas. The piece titled 'Brothers in Red' explores themes of connection and identity through the use of bold red tones and textural newspaper fragments.
- Medium
- acrylic and newspaper on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
June 22, 2022
Artists in conversation
Romare Bearden
American · b. 1911
Bearden pioneered collage techniques that combined torn paper and photographic fragments with bold color fields to explore Black identity and community, closely mirroring Taku's use of newspaper collage and red tones to examine connection and belonging.
El Anatsui
Ghanaian · b. 1944
El Anatsui incorporates found and discarded materials into large scale works that examine African identity and history, sharing Taku's approach of embedding culturally loaded everyday materials into a visually striking abstract composition.
Hurvin Anderson
British · b. 1965
Anderson creates contemporary works that use bold tonal relationships and layered surfaces to explore themes of identity, brotherhood, and belonging within the African diaspora, qualities that resonate deeply with the thematic and visual concerns of Brothers in Red.
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