He works primarily with familiar items such as furniture and kitchenware he makes by hand, changing their appearance by casting them in polyurethane foam and resin, and often embedding household items in the surfaces. There will be an outdoor screening of other Mutu films later in the season.įurther south in Storm King’s fields, Ndife will present his first outdoor sculpture project. In addition, My Cave Call, a film she made last year, in which she transforms into a mythical figure in the volcano town of Suswa, in Kenya’s Rift Valley, will be shown frequently. Other works will be shown indoors, including “The Glider,” made in 2021 using materials collected in East Africa, and on exhibit for the first time. Unveiled last week, “Crocodylus” is a 15-foot sculpture installed on Museum Hill, the park’s highest spot, offering a vista over the South Fields, Nearby is a bronze canoe fountain, “In Two Canoe,” which offers a view of “Crocodylus” and the snake basket work. Her bronze works, including cast-bronze woven baskets holding the coiled bodies of bronze serpents and giant bronze tortoise shells, are on view in the fields, meadows, woods and ponds. Materials include ink, soil, ash, bronze, driftwood, horn, pigments, wine and hair. Mutu uses a wide range of items for her sculptures and collage paintings, and during her performance rituals and films. With Mutu and Ndife’s work at its core, the 2022 season at Storm King “provides visitors with very different approaches to art in nature, site-responsiveness and the ways in which sculpture participates in and comments upon events in the world,” says Nora Lawrence, the artistic director and chief curator at Storm King.
In addition, an installation by New York City-based Brandon Ndife is his largest artwork yet. This year, Storm King will showcase bronze sculptures and earthworks by Kenyan-born Wangechi Mutu, presented in an indoor and outdoor exhibition accompanied by a screening of the artist’s films.
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