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.
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As the controversy spread, Knorr, who made her social media account private, has admitted to being influenced by azul I apologize for not having Dayday.
I read books and watched documentaries on the subject, and one of them was azul Directed by Dai Dai – the inspiration for my paintings, «She said rolling rock. “This was a very big mistake and Dai Dai made it clear to me that it wasn’t bad faith at all, I just wasn’t making sure he took credit, and I’m so sorry.”
paul’s birthdayKnörr Gallery in New York, also apologized to Dayday on Instagram“We believe in giving credit where credit is due and we want to foster a collaborative space between all capabilities,” he said.
For the Gala, the post continues, “we want to recognize the paths by which it has arrived and urge cultural institutions such as galleries, museums and the artists themselves to reflect on their practices and influences and verify how their privileges have brought them.” as far as they are.”
The gallery and Knörr responded to inquiries from Artnet News with the official statement from the Guggenheim. As of press time, there has been no response from Dai Dai.
«Basque Artist ProgramShown at Guggenheim Bilbao, Avenida Abandoibarra, 2, 48009 Bilbao, July 8, 2022 – September 6, 2022.
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