This English Sculpture Park Has Been Overtaken By An Army Of Sculptures

British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové monumental installation, Black and Blue: The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness is on view in the 18th-century verdant landscape of Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) until June 3, 2018.

Ové’s installation of identical sculptures was the stand-out work at the 2016 edition of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair when 40 of his two-metre-tall figures dominated the courtyard of Somerset House. For YSP, Ové has expanded the work to present an assembly of 80 sculptures.

Zak Ové, Black and Blue The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, 2016-17

The form of Ové’s totemic figure is taken from an ebony wooden sculpture his father, the celebrated filmmaker Horace Ové, gave him in the 70s. Over the years, the sculpture from Kenya has come to metaphorically represent ‘the complexities of contemporary identity.’

Installing the army of repetitive figures with their raised hands at YSP has undoubtedly had a powerful impact upon the rural landscape, taking on new connotations and associations, and built upon Ové’s exploration of African identity and history.

Zak Ové with his Black and Blue: The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, 2016-17

Black and Blue: The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness by Zak Ové will be at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, WF4 4JX until June 3, 2018.

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