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MEDIA ALERT CONTACT: Nicole Chism Griffin, PR – The Contemporary Austin [email protected] / 512 458 8191 x 142 (P) / 206 947 2312 (C) THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN ANNOUNCES FALL 2017 EXHIBITIONS FEATURING JOHN BOCK, RYAN GANDER, WANGECHI MUTU, AND CAROL BOVE Exhibitions featuring Bock, Gander, and Mutu open September 23, 2017, and include new work by each artist. Exhibition of new and recent work by Carol Bove opens November 18, 2017. SEPTEMBER 1, 2017, AUSTIN, TEXAS – This fall, The Contemporary Austin will feature exhibitions by John Bock, Ryan Gander, Wangechi Mutu, and Carol Bove at its two locations—the Jones Center at 700 Congress Avenue in downtown Austin and the fourteenacre sculpture park at Laguna Gloria at 3809 West 35 th Street. First, opening September 23 are exhibitions of work by John Bock, Ryan Gander, and Wangechi Mutu. On view on the first floor of the Jones Center on Congress Avenue, John Bock’s Dead + Juicy centers around a film newly commissioned by the Contemporary Austin that was shot in and around Austin, Texas. Labeled an “uncanny musical” by the artist, the film blends classic westerns and dark comedy with spooky thriller and horror aesthetics. The film will be accompanied by an exhibition of what the artist calls a “sum mutation”—an installation of reconfigured sculptures created for the film, reconstructed in stagelike environments in the first floor galleries. Upstairs at the Jones Center, Wangechi Mutu brings together both new and existing work, anchored by a new, site specific edition of Throw, 2017, an action painting generated by a performance in which Mutu throws black paper pulp against the wall, creating an abstract composition that dries, hardens, and then degrades over time. Also included are the threechannel digital animation The End of carrying All, 2015, along with a body of sculptures and installations, many of which debut in this exhibition, inspired by the artist’s recent opening of a second studio in her native country of Kenya. Wangechi Mutu’s exhibition at the Jones Center on Congress Avenue is complemented by the outdoor installation of Water Woman, 2017, at the edge of the lagoon in the museum’s sculpture park at Laguna Gloria. Both ethereal and entirely at home in this locale, this graceful sculpture—a charcoalcolored cast bronze figure that is half human and half water creature—is a rare example of an outdoor sculpture by the artist. The Contemporary also debuts three newly commissioned, sitespecific sculptures by Ryan Gander at its sculpture park at Laguna Gloria. Inspired by small brass key chains the artist created as part of the performance piece Earnest Hawker in 2015, the three bronze works that comprise The day to day accumulation of hope, failure and ecstasy are each approximately 3 x 2 x 2 feet in size and have been suspended from trees on the upper grounds of the site. Finally, The Contemporary Austin is pleased to organize its firstever, entirely outdoor exhibition at the sculpture park at Laguna Gloria. Carol Bove opens November 18 and will include new and recent outdoor sculptures arranged in a grassy meadow on the grounds. Curatorial Statements for each of The Contemporary Austin’s fall exhibitions follows. More information is available at thecontemporaryaustin.org.

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Page 1: FINAL-Press Release-Fall 2017 Exhibitions 09.05.17 · JOHN$BOCK:DEAD+JUICY& September$23,$2017$–$January$14,$2018$ Jones$Center$! Thebrilliantly$bizarrefilm,$Dead(+(Juicy,2017,byJohnBock$

MEDIA ALERT        

CONTACT:  Nicole  Chism  Griffin,  PR  –  The  Contemporary  Austin  [email protected]  /  512  458  8191  x  142  (P)  /  206  947  2312  (C)    

 THE  CONTEMPORARY  AUSTIN  ANNOUNCES  FALL  2017  EXHIBITIONS  FEATURING  JOHN  BOCK,  RYAN  GANDER,  WANGECHI  MUTU,  AND  CAROL  BOVE    Exhibitions  featuring  Bock,  Gander,  and  Mutu  open  September  23,  2017,  and  include    new  work  by  each  artist.    Exhibition  of  new  and  recent  work  by  Carol  Bove  opens  November  18,  2017.      SEPTEMBER  1,  2017,  AUSTIN,  TEXAS  –  This  fall,  The  Contemporary  Austin  will  feature  exhibitions  by  John  Bock,  Ryan  Gander,  Wangechi  Mutu,  and  Carol  Bove  at  its  two  locations—the  Jones  Center  at  700  Congress  Avenue  in  downtown  Austin  and  the  fourteen-­‐acre  sculpture  park  at  Laguna  Gloria  at  3809  West  35th  Street.    First,  opening  September  23  are  exhibitions  of  work  by  John  Bock,  Ryan  Gander,  and  Wangechi  Mutu.  On  view  on  the  first  floor  of  the  Jones  Center  on  Congress  Avenue,  John  Bock’s  Dead  +  Juicy  centers  around  a  film  newly  commissioned  by  the  Contemporary  Austin  that  was  shot  in  and  around  Austin,  Texas.  Labeled  an  “uncanny  musical”  by  the  artist,  the  film  blends  classic  westerns  and  dark  comedy  with  spooky  thriller  and  horror  aesthetics.  The  film  will  be  accompanied  by  an  exhibition  of  what  the  artist  calls  a  “sum  mutation”—an  installation  of  reconfigured  sculptures  created  for  the  film,  reconstructed  in  stage-­‐like  environments  in  the  first  floor  galleries.      Upstairs  at  the  Jones  Center,  Wangechi  Mutu  brings  together  both  new  and  existing  work,  anchored  by  a  new,  site-­‐specific  edition  of  Throw,  2017,  an  action  painting  generated  by  a  performance  in  which  Mutu  throws  black  paper  pulp  against  the  wall,  creating  an  abstract  composition  that  dries,  hardens,  and  then  degrades  over  time.  Also  included  are  the  three-­‐channel  digital  animation  The  End  of  carrying  All,  2015,  along  with  a  body  of  sculptures  and  installations,  many  of  which  debut  in  this  exhibition,  inspired  by  the  artist’s  recent  opening  of  a  second  studio  in  her  native  country  of  Kenya.    Wangechi  Mutu’s  exhibition  at  the  Jones  Center  on  Congress  Avenue  is  complemented  by  the  outdoor  installation  of  Water  Woman,  2017,  at  the  edge  of  the  lagoon  in  the  museum’s  sculpture  park  at  Laguna  Gloria.  Both  ethereal  and  entirely  at  home  in  this  locale,  this  graceful  sculpture—a  charcoal-­‐colored  cast  bronze  figure  that  is  half  human  and  half  water  creature—is  a  rare  example  of  an  outdoor  sculpture  by  the  artist.      The  Contemporary  also  debuts  three  newly  commissioned,  site-­‐specific  sculptures  by  Ryan  Gander  at  its  sculpture  park  at  Laguna  Gloria.  Inspired  by  small  brass  key  chains  the  artist  created  as  part  of  the  performance  piece  Earnest  Hawker  in  2015,  the  three  bronze  works  that  comprise  The  day  to  day  accumulation  of  hope,  fa i lure  and  ecstasy  are  each  approximately  3  x  2  x  2  feet  in  size  and  have  been  suspended  from  trees  on  the  upper  grounds  of  the  site.      Finally,  The  Contemporary  Austin  is  pleased  to  organize  its  first-­‐ever,  entirely  outdoor  exhibition  at  the  sculpture  park  at  Laguna  Gloria.  Carol  Bove  opens  November  18  and  will  include  new  and  recent  outdoor  sculptures  arranged  in  a  grassy  meadow  on  the  grounds.    Curatorial  Statements  for  each  of  The  Contemporary  Austin’s  fall  exhibitions  follows.  More  information  is  available  at  thecontemporaryaustin.org.  

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JOHN  BOCK:  DEAD  +  JUICY  September  23,  2017  –  January  14,  2018  Jones  Center    The  brilliantly  bizarre  film,  Dead  +  Juicy,  2017,  by  John  Bock  (German,  born  1965  in  Gribbohm  and  based  in  Berlin),  features  a  mercurial  female  protagonist,  a  barber  named  Lisa,  interacting  with  odd  and  wacky  characters  throughout  various  Texan  locales:  a  barbershop,  a  bar,  a  “modern  house,”  a  “small  house”  and  its  surrounding  neighborhood,  and  a  wooded  swamp.  Made  entirely  in  and  around  several  of  Austin’s  memorable  locations  and  venues,  this  film  was  commissioned  by  The  Contemporary  Austin  and  premieres  at  the  museum  in  September  2017.  Dead  +  Juicy  blends  classic  westerns  and  dark  comedy  through  a  moody  German-­‐expressionist  lens,  a  terrain  the  artist  first  explored  in  his  roadie  Pulp  Fiction–inspired  film  Palms,  2008.  Quintessentially,  the  artist  taps  the  underbelly  of  spooky  thriller  and  horror  aesthetics,  here  using  doppelgängers  and  “doubles”  in  a  Dada-­‐esque  musical  murder  mystery  set  amidst  the  backdrop  of  the  Texas  landscape.      Irrational,  subversive  performativity  forms  the  (bloody)  heart  of  Bock’s  performances,  sculptures,  installations,  films,  and  videos.  Like  the  early-­‐twentieth-­‐century  avant-­‐garde  Dadaists,  Bock  uses  part  slapstick,  part  anarchy,  and  part  cultural  critique  through  a  mind-­‐bending  range  of  media,  materials,  objects,  sounds,  and  moving  images.  The  artist’s  oeuvre  reflects  an  obsessive  and  meticulous  Bockian  world,  so  to  speak,  a  universe  conceived,  developed,  and  constructed  by  the  artist  over  time  and  containing  permutations  of  his  own  language,  symbolism,  imagery,  characters,  objects,  and  actions  that  fuse  art  with  economics,  science,  fashion,  music,  pop  and  visual  culture,  and,  occasionally,  farming.      Bock  employs  a  discomforting  use  of  fluids  and  viscous  materials  ranging  from  shaving  cream,  Pepto-­‐Bismol,  barbecue  sauce,  toothpaste,  dough,  saliva,  blood,  urine,  oatmeal,  and  goo  of  all  colors  to  found  and  organic  objects  and  elements,  such  as  cameras,  sheds,  furniture,  thrift  store  clothing,  clocks,  cotton  balls,  piping,  Q-­‐tips,  wheels,  hay,  eggs,  resin,  human  hair,  and  a  taxidermied  rat—often  assembled  into  Frankenstein-­‐like  contraptions.  In  tandem  with  the  film,  the  artist  presents  an  installation—or  “sum  mutation,”  as  he  refers  to  it—consisting  of  reconfigured  sculptures  from  the  film  within  reconstructed  stage-­‐like  environments  throughout  the  first  floor  of  the  Jones  Center  on  Congress  Avenue.  Through  the  intersection  between  object  and  moving  image,  Bock’s  complex  and  deeply  cinematic  ethos  emerges.  At  the  same  time,  one  shudders  to  think  that  somehow  Bock’s  alternate  universe,  in  the  context  of  our  world  today,  perhaps  makes  complete  sense.    John  Bock:  Dead  +  Juicy  is  curated  by  Heather  Pesanti,  Senior  Curator  of  The  Contemporary  Austin,  with  text  also  by  Pesanti.      

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RYAN  GANDER:  THE  DAY  TO  DAY  ACCUMULATION    OF  HOPE,  FAILURE  AND  ECSTASY  September  23,  2017  –  Ongoing  Laguna  Gloria    The  Contemporary  Austin  presents  three  newly  commissioned,  site-­‐specific  outdoor  sculptures  by  the  conceptual  artist  Ryan  Gander  (British,  born  1976  in  Chester,  England),  part  of  a  series  titled  The  day  to  day  accumulation  of  hope,  failure  and  ecstasy,  2017.  These  works  are  inspired  by  small  brass  key  chains  the  artist  created  as  part  of  Earnest  Hawker,  2015,  a  humorous,  performative,  persona-­‐based  work  commissioned  for  Performa  15  in  New  York  City.  In  2016  Gander  began  magnifying  these  typically  diminutive,  hand-­‐held  forms  to  create  large-­‐scale  sculptures  in  cast  bronze,  each  approximately  3  x  2  x  2  feet  in  size.  In  Austin,  suspended  overhead  from  the  trees  of  The  Contemporary  Austin’s  lush,  fourteen-­‐acre  Betty  and  Edward  Marcus  Sculpture  Park  at  Laguna  Gloria,  the  keychain  shapes  are  widely  varied:  a  tumbling  Degas  ballet  dancer,  an  architectural  model  of  an  imagined  art  school  and  museum,  and  a  dolos,  an  abstract  structure  used  to  control  coastal  erosion.      The  first  sculpture,  a  bronze  dancing  figure  subtitled  The  zenith  of  your  career  (The  Last  Degas),  hangs  upside  down  by  the  loop  of  its  chain  as  if  leaping  or  falling  through  the  air,  and  relates  to  Gander’s  ongoing  reimagining  of  Edgar  Degas’s  iconic  bronze  ballerinas.  Continually  in  motion,  mysteriously  sized,  and  hovering  just  out  of  reach,  this  dancer  poses  human  scale  and  perspective  as  yet  another  question  to  the  viewer—who  is  big  here,  and  who  is  small?    The  second  work,  a  circular  disc  subtitled  A  bright  spark  in  a  dim  world  (Panopticon  Art  School  and  Museum),  represents  an  ideal  architectural  model  designed  by  the  artist  for  a  combined  art  school  and  museum.  Gander  has  built,  and  attempted  to  build,  many  different  kinds  of  art  schools  over  the  last  decade,  in  support  of  his  belief  that  “life  should  be  an  art  school  that  you  never  leave.”  This  sculpture  takes  the  form  of  a  panopticon—originally  an  eighteenth-­‐century  model  for  a  prison  in  which  the  residents  can  be  continually  watched  from  a  center  point—but  in  Gander’s  revision  the  setting  of  education  and  art  breaks  down  barriers  between  public  and  private  realms,  and  turns  spectator  and  spectacle  into  a  positive,  supportive  relationship.  Installed,  appropriately,  on  the  grounds  of  The  Contemporary  Austin’s  Laguna  Gloria  museum  site  that  also  houses  its  Art  School,  it  seems  possible  that  Gander’s  vision  can  be  realized.    Perhaps  the  strangest,  most  immediately  unrecognizable  key  chain  of  the  three  is  the  geometric,  stepped  shape,  subtitled  An  institutional  maze  (Steptrapode),  which  is  based  on  a  heavy  concrete  erosion  defense  structure  called  a  tetrapod  or  a  dolos.  Evoking  a  giant’s  game  of  jacks,  these  shapes  are  commonly  scattered  along  coasts  in  Wales  near  where  the  artist  grew  up.  The  multi-­‐footed,  hammer-­‐head  form  absorbs  the  physical  shock  of  the  ocean’s  waves,  preventing  long-­‐term  coastal  decay.  A  “Steptrapode”  is  Gander’s  tongue-­‐in-­‐cheek  name  for  this  “stepped”  object.  It  is  probably  not  accidental  that  tetrapod  also  refers  to  any  four-­‐footed,  vertebrate  animal,  or  that  Dolos  is  the  Greek  god  of  deception  and  trickery.  With  Gander,  when  one  question  seems  answered,  another  is  posed.    Ryan  Gander:  The  day  to  day  accumulation  of  hope,  failure  and  ecstasy  is  curated  by  Heather  Pesanti,  Senior  Curator  of  The  Contemporary  Austin.  Text  is  by  Julia  Hendrickson,  Associate  Curator.  

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WANGECHI  MUTU  September  23,  2017  –  January  14,  2018  Jones  Center  and  Laguna  Gloria    Water  Woman,  2017,  a  cast  bronze  sculpture  by  Wangechi  Mutu  (Kenyan,  born  1972  in  Nairobi,  lives  and  works  between  New  York  and  Nairobi),  sits  on  a  grassy  mound  at  the  museum’s  fourteen-­‐acre  sculpture  park,  gazing  east  across  the  lagoon.  Rooted  in  myth  and  mystery,  this  siren  figure—evocative  of  a  mermaid—references  both  the  dugong,  an  endangered  relative  of  the  manatee  found  in  coastal  waters  from  East  Africa  to  Australia,  and  the  East  African  folkloric  legend  of  the  half  woman,  half  sea  creature  creature  who  entices  and  eludes  (nguva  in  Swahili)..  In  contrast  to  the  ubiquitous  Western  iconography  of  silken-­‐haired  women  with  pale  skin,  here  the  siren  is  represented  by  the  luminous,  charcoal-­‐colored  female  body,  a  vein  of  inquiry  central  to  Mutu’s  work.      Mutu  grew  up  in  Nairobi  in  the  1970s  and  1980s  and  moved  to  the  United  States  in  1992  to  study  art.  Her  work  weaves  elements  of  East  African  mythology  with  Afro-­‐surrealist  elements  of  science  fiction  and  fantasy,  critiques  of  African  and  female  stereotypes,  and  universal  notions  of  power,  race,  identity,  and  colonialism.  In  2016,  Mutu  opened  a  second  studio  in  Nairobi,  which  has  catalyzed  a  transformation  in  her  work.  This  shift  is  signified  by  references  to  the  Kenyan  landscape—such  as  the  distinctive,  rust-­‐colored  clay  of  Nairobi’s  volcanic  soil  and  a  black  paper  pulp  —and  a  turn  from  primarily  two-­‐dimensional  works  toward  an  increasing  emphasis  on  sculptures,  performance-­‐based  installations,  and  video  animation.    In  conjunction  with  the  newly  installed  Water  Woman  at  Laguna  Gloria,  Mutu  premieres  a  solo  exhibition  at  the  Jones  Center  on  Congress  Avenue.  Throw,  2017—a  site-­‐specific  action  painting  generated  by  a  performance  in  which  the  artist  throws  black  paper  pulp  against  the  wall  to  create  an  abstract  composition  that  dries,  hardens,  then  degrades  over  time—anchors  the  exhibition,  alongside  the  three-­‐channel  digital  animation  The  End  of  carrying  All,  2015.  Another  work,  This  second  Dreamer,  2017,  a  bronze  female  head  with  a  braided  crown  that  lies  sleeping  on  a  large  wooden  block,  reclaims  the  appropriated  African  masks  that  influenced  a  generation  of  modernist  sculptors  (such  as  Constantin  Brancusi).  Also  included  in  the  exhibition  are  Mutu’s  Prayer  Beads  series;  Heeler,  a  series  of  anthropomorphic  shoe  sculptures;  and    sculptures  made  of  horns  and  wood.  Tapping  into  the  spiritual  and  supernatural,  the  ancient  and  primordial,  and  the  terrestrial  and  cosmological,  Mutu’s  objects  and  installations  propose  a  revised  narrative  of  matriarchy  and  power,  where  the  next  generation’s  history  of  art  includes  the  African  heroine.    Wangechi  Mutu  is  curated  by  Heather  Pesanti,  Senior  Curator  of  The  Contemporary  Austin,  with  text  also  by  Pesanti.  

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 CAROL  BOVE  November  18,  2017  –  Ongoing  Laguna  Gloria    Inspired  by  industrial  landscapes  and  materials,  the  work  of  the  artist  Carol  Bove  (American,  born  1971  in  Geneva,  Switzerland)  interrogates  sculptural  vocabulary  and  strategies  of  display.  Works  from  the  1990s  and  early  2000s  are  domestically  scaled:  fabricated  concrete  and  steel  rest  alongside  found  materials  including  feathers,  seashells,  and  rare  books  installed  on  precisely  mounted  shelves.  Increasingly,  Bove  has  turned  toward  large-­‐scale  steel  sculpture  assemblages  of  new  and  found  elements  that  are  alternately  raw  and  finished.      For  this  museum’s  first  monographic  exhibition  of  a  single  artist  at  Laguna  Gloria,  The  Contemporary  Austin  presents  an  outdoor  exhibition  of  newly  commissioned  and  recent  large-­‐scale  sculptures  by  Bove,  the  artist’s  first  exhibition  in  Austin  in  a  decade.  Here,  Bove  interprets  the  classical  sculpture  garden,  reinventing  it  as  a  multitude  of  abstract  forms  in  varying  shapes,  colors,  and  scales.  Anchoring  the  installation  is  From  the  Sun  to  Zurich,  2016,  a  white,  spray-­‐painted  steel  tube  sculpture  Bove  refers  to  as  a  “glyph,”  suggesting  a  cosmological  spiral,  an  ancient  hieroglyphic  language,  or  a  wayward  noodle.  Also  featured  is  an  upright  minimalist  grid—installed  as  if  the  last  remaining  freestanding  wall  of  a  home  were  precariously  abandoned—as  well  as  a  pair  of  collaged  abstract  steel  forms  in  vivid  colors  such  as  cyan  and  yellow.      Sited  in  the  lower  meadow,  the  exhibition  requires  visitors  to  first  approach  the  sculptures  from  a  distance,  generating  a  gradually  decreasing  perspective.  The  initial  vantage  point  captures  fragments  of  the  forms  peeking  through  the  treetops  and  gaps  in  the  woods;  as  the  viewer  nears,  the  objects’  size  and  formal  qualities  are  revealed.  The  contemplative  space  of  her  installation  reveals  an  equilibrium  among  elements—an  etymological  assemblage  that  allows  for  a  poetic  language  of  the  parts  within  the  whole  to  emerge.      Carol  Bove  is  curated  by  Heather  Pesanti,  Senior  Curator  of  The  Contemporary  Austin,  with  text  also  by  Pesanti.        

THE  CONTEMPORARY  AUSTIN  As  Austin’s  only  museum  solely  focused  on  contemporary  artists  and  their  work,  The  Contemporary  Austin  offers  exhibitions,  educational  opportunities,  and  events  that  start  conversations  and  fuel  the  city’s  creative  spirit.  Known  for  artist-­‐centric  projects  and  collaborations,  The  Contemporary  invites  exploration  in  both  its  urban  and  natural  settings—downtown  at  the  Jones  Center  on  Congress  Avenue,  lakeside  at  the  Laguna  Gloria  Campus  (including  the  Betty  and  Edward  Marcus  Sculpture  Park,  the  Art  School,  and  the  historic  Driscoll  Villa),  and  around  Austin  through  the  Museum  Without  Walls  program.    

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IMAGE  CAPTIONS    John  Bock,  Dead  +  Juicy  (stills),  2017.  HD  video.  Commissioned  by  The  Contemporary  Austin  for  the  exhibition  John  Bock:  Dead  and  Juicy,  2017.  Artwork  ©  John  Bock.  Courtesy  the  artist;  Anton  Kern  Gallery,  New  York;  and  Regen  Projects,  Los  Angeles.  Photograph  by  David  Schultz.    Ryan  Gander,  The  day  to  day  accumulation  of  hope,  failure  and  ecstasy  —  A  bright  spark  in  a  dim  world  (Panopticon  Art  School  and  Museum),  2017.  Bronze  and  stainless  steel.  83  x  45  x  30  inches.  Commissioned  by  The  Contemporary  Austin  with  funds  provided  by  the  Edward  and  Betty  Marcus  Foundation.  Installation  view,  The  Contemporary  Austin  –  Laguna  Gloria,  Austin,  Texas,  2017.  Artwork  ©  Ryan  Gander.  Courtesy  the  artist  and  Lisson  Gallery,  London  /  New  York.  Image  courtesy  The  Contemporary  Austin.  Photograph  by  Brian  Fitzsimmons.      Ryan  Gander,  The  day  to  day  accumulation  of  hope,  failure  and  ecstasy  —  The  zenith  of  your  career  (The  Last  Degas),  2017.  Bronze  and  stainless  steel.  67  x  41  x  24  inches.  Commissioned  by  The  Contemporary  Austin  with  funds  provided  by  the  Edward  and  Betty  Marcus  Foundation.  Installation  view,  The  Contemporary  Austin  –  Laguna  Gloria,  Austin,  Texas,  2017.  Artwork  ©  Ryan  Gander.  Courtesy  the  artist  and  Lisson  Gallery,  London  /  New  York.  Image  courtesy  The  Contemporary  Austin.  Photograph  by  Brian  Fitzsimmons.      Wangechi  Mutu,  Water  Woman,  2017.  Bronze.  36  x  65  x  70  inches.  Edition  2  of  3,  with  2  AP.  Installation  view,  The  Contemporary  Austin  –  Laguna  Gloria,  Austin,  Texas,  2017.  Artwork  ©  Wangechi  Mutu.  Courtesy  the  artist  and  Gladstone  Gallery,  New  York  and  Brussels.  Image  courtesy  The  Contemporary  Austin.  Photograph  by  Brian  Fitzsimmons.    Wangechi  Mutu,  This  second  Dreamer,  2017.  Patinated  bronze  and  wood.  8  1/2  x  14  3/4  x  16  1/4  inches.  Edition  of  3,  2  AP.  Collection  of  the  Linda  Pace  Foundation,  San  Antonio,  Texas.  Image  courtesy  the  artist  and  Gladstone  Gallery,  New  York  and  Brussels.  Photograph  by  David  Regen.    Carol  Bove,  From  the  Sun  to  Zurich,  2016.  Stainless  steel  and  urethane  paint.  93  x  199  1/12  x  87  1/12  inches.  Artwork  ©  Carol  Bove.  Image  courtesy  the  artist  and  David  Zwirner,  New  York.  Photograph  by  Dan  Bradica.