Julie Mehretu

Works and article.

Interview.

Africa Remix

Julie Mehretu?s giant canvases made themselves at home on the rough-edged walls of The Project from November 18 to December 22, 2001. Looming in the main hall was Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation. Once in sight, the viewer becomes fixated on processing the work?s various layers. It is a mess of different elements going about their business. Yet, one senses order…

Julie Mehretu tackles the infrastructure of the constructed world, imploding and exploding fragments of the real and imagined into a frenzied maelstrom of information. Accreted layers of Mylar, vellum, paper, ink and paint, Mehretu’s canvases are as much drawn as painted. Perspectival renderings of architecture are woven with notational calligraphy, amorphous membranes, and organic motifs, enfolding multiple realities and spatial schemes into a single plane…