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August 24, 2012
Judith Bettelheim and Janet Catherine Berlo Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2011. 216 pp.; 101 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780977834471)

Exhibition schedule: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, September 18, 2011–January 8, 2012; Miami Art Museum, Miami, May 11–September 2, 2012

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José Bedia. Mama quiere menga, menga de su nkombo (Mama Wants Blood, Blood of His Bull) (1988). Acrylic on canvas. 139.7 x 200 cm. Collection of Diane and Robert Moss, Miami, Florida. Courtesy Fowler Museum at UCLA.

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The newly commissioned, site-specific installation, Figura que defina su propio horizonte (Figure Who Defines His Own Horizon), by the Cuban-born artist José Bedia is an apt centerpiece to his career survey, Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia. A diminutive figure in dark bronze—a trickster as well as a reference to the artist himself, with a horned head and smoking a cigarette—is chained by the ankle to a tree stump. The chain and...