An accusation of plagiarism has come to an apparently harmonious decision in Guggenheim Bilbao After the spy noticed that the Spanish artist gala knorrThe black cowboy pictures were very much like a film by the artist dayan eccentric artist from Brooklyn who has done projects with Academy Awards, ABC series soul of a nationLos Los New York Timesand Alicia Keys, among others.
In response to the controversy, the museum agreed to show the original Dayday video, azulIn addition to the paintings that inspired her in her collective exhibition “The Basque Artist Program” ARTnews. (The exhibition follows a joint residency program by Knörr and nine other Basque artists at the Guggenheim Museum in Spain and New York.)
“The movie azul The next day it will be displayed alongside an artist’s statement, which is a visual inspiration for Knörr,” the museum said in a statement. “By concretely linking the works, we can begin to reflect on the dual erasure of Basque and American cowboys. cowboys of African descent in the United States of history”.
In earlier work, Knorr explored the influence the Basque cowboy had on the good image of the cowboy in American cinema and pop culture. The new series “Young Cowboy” expands on this project by highlighting black cowboys.
The artwork “revisits the history of the American West by reviving characters who may have played a prominent role in their time but have been forgotten in American popular culture,” according to the exhibition’s original media materials.
For inspiration, Knorr cited a photo of Brianna Noble, a young African-American woman who participated in the 2020 Oakland Black Lives Matter protests on horseback.
Brianna Noble during a protest in Oakland, California. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.
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But Knorr’s palette young cowboyof a steely-eyed black man in a cowboy hat and white collared shirt looking over his shoulder, closely mirroring one of the close-ups. azul.
Directed by Dai Dai and shot on location in North Carolina, the film stars Ezekiel “Blue” Mitchell, a prominent young black bull rider, and compares his career to the lost legacy of an African-American cowboy.
Art consultant and curator Alexis Hyde was the first to point out the similarity between Knorr’s painting and azul.
Hyde said in Tik Tok A video that suggests showing the film next to the painting. Other users, including stop-motion animation good bones and the artist Art by XenShe echoed his fears.
