American Tapestry Biennial 13
- June 18, 2021 - September 12, 2021
- Exhibition
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- Artwork
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- Artists
On Site Exhibition
Tiger's Trophy
- cotton seine, various
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60 x 35 x 1 in
(152.4 x 88.9 x 2.54 cm)
- Alta Turner
First of 4, Tiger’s Trophy “turns about” trophy mongers from hunters to hunted – a sardonic pun. Conceptual design derives from Rugs & Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism, a Metropolitan Museum exhibit curated by John Guy. Review comments resonate: "...the smoother argument made . . that conforming to nature is sanity, whereas conforming to humanity is idiocy. To be in constant grief due to the cruelty of man is not misanthropy, it’s pure logic." [S.Crosley’s review of O.Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, tr. A.Lloyd-Jones]