Likunt Daniel Ailin (The World Stage: Israel)
Kehinde Wiley, Likunt Daniel Ailin (The World Stage: Israel), 2013, bronze, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by patrons of the 2014 New for the Wall, © Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California, 2014.125.1
This work is on view.
- Title
Likunt Daniel Ailin (The World Stage: Israel)
- Artist
- Date
2013
- Medium
bronze
- Edition
edition of 3 with 2 artist's proofs
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
45 in x 23 in x 19 in
- Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary Art
- Category
Sculpture
- Object Type
sculpture
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Funds provided by patrons of the 2014 New for the Wall
- Accession Number
2014.125.1
- Copyright
© Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California
- Terms
- Location
Kehinde Wiley is best-known for his naturalistic depictions of black men and women in poses referencing neoclassical and Renaissance portraiture. Created during his "World Stage" project, this classical-style bust is a monumental portrait of Likunt Daniel Ailin, an Ethiopian-Jewish Israeli whom the artist met in Tel Aviv. Ailin's experience as a person of color in modern Israel intersected with Wiley's ongoing investigation of the tensions of identity, situation, and history. Wiley broadened the political context of the work with a Hebrew translation of a quote from Rodney King, the victim of a vicious police beating captured on video in Los Angeles in 1991: "Can't we all just get along?"
- Exhibitions
2015 Paradise: Fallen Fruit Portland Art Museum
2023 Throughlines: Connections in the Collection Portland Art Museum
