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JULIE MEHRETU (B. 1970)
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JULIE MEHRETU (B. 1970)

Six Bardos: Transmutation

Closed28 October 2022

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JULIE MEHRETU (B. 1970)
Six Bardos: Transmutation
aquatint in colors, on Saunders Waterford paper, 2018, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 11/45 (there were also eight artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their blindstamps and ink stamp on the reverse, with full margins, in very good condition, framed
Image: 47 x 58 in. (1193 x 1473 mm.)
Sheet: 50 1/2 x 61 1/2 in. (1282 x 1562 mm.)

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Mehretu began this series after a trip to China, and the titles both refer to the stages of the soul between death and reincarnation, and the Bardos of yoga. The individual titles of each artwork in the series refer to the six levels of transitional states between death and rebirth, as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Various marks and shapes collide to suggest calligraphy, automatic writing, political graffiti, gestural abstraction and abstract expressionism, cave paintings, and emergent figures.