Yombe
Mask, 19th century
Wood, pigment, kaolin
The Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fund, The William Hood Dunwoody Fund 99.165

Face to Face

Friday, October 1, 2010—Sunday, May 29, 2011
Antiquities Hallway, G240
Free Exhibition

This Art ReMix engages you face to face with nine extraordinary individuals from the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Curators have transformed this hallway into a multicultural crossroads, where personalities usually separated in the MIA galleries according to geography, time period, or collection area, come together to inspire new ways of looking and thinking.

How do you respond to these faces, disembodied and removed from their original contexts of place, time, and artistic tradition? These sculptures--side by side and face to face--invite you to make your own personal, visual, cultural, and historical connections.

The possible connections raised by these juxtapositions are diverse, but each face is unique, as is each viewer they encounter in this corridor.