Masks: Metamorphosis of Modern Identity at the Museo Carmen Thyssen in Málaga, Spain

Exhibitions that have opened in 2020 exist in unenviable flux: predominantly planned before the Covid-19 virus and the Black Lives Matter movement went global they are, nonetheless, impossible to now view without recognition of this year’s events. Case in point: it is extremely unlikely the curatorial research for Masks: Metamorphosis of Modern Identity (July 28, 2020 through January 10, 2021) currently at the Museo Carmen Thyssen in Málaga, Spain could have anticipated that viewers have lived in the very material of the exhibition subject since March...

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home page image credit: MALE MASK, Lwalwa culture (D.R. Congo), late 1800s−early 1900s, wood, 40 x 19 x 19 cm Sánchez-Ubiría Collection, courtesy of Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga, Spain.
image credit above: Fernand Léger (1881-1955). Biot, musée national Fernand Léger. MNFL02058, courtesy of Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga, Spain.