Barbara Chase-Riboud
The Albino
1972 (reinstalled in 1994 by the artist as All That Rises Must Converge/Black)
Bronze with black patina, wool and other fibers
Not on view
Chase-Riboud was nineteen when she made her first lost-wax bronze casting while studying at the American Academy in Rome, establishing a lifelong relationship with both the technique and the city. She began adding fiber to her sculptures a decade later in an attempt to reverse the properties of the materials—to make metal look soft and delicate and fiber appear ridged and hard. This work may be shown two ways: as you see it here (titled The Albino) or with its “arms” upstretched to the ceiling (All That Rises Must Converge/Black). Both names have literary resonances: the former is the title of a poem by the artist, and the latter is a reference to a 1965 short story about race and class by the Southern American writer Flannery O’Connor.
[The Encounter:Barbara Chase-Riboud/Alberto Giacometti] (https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5589), May 5–October 9, 2023
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Barbara Chase-Riboud
American, born 1939 6 works onlineAt age 15, Barbara Chase-Riboud was the first and youngest Black female artist to have artwork collected by The Museum of Modern Art.
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