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Red Indian #4 by Wolberger in the Brooklyn Museum, January 2010
Red Indian #4 (Spearman)
Yoram Wolberger’s sculpture of a Native American warrior belongs to a series of monumental versions of the plastic toy figurines that the artist used to stage elaborate mock battles between cowboys and Indians during his youth. Though infused with nostalgia, Red Indian #4 also invokes the violence that permeates both popular childhood games and the history of indigenous peoples in North America.
To create his sculpture, Wolberger took molds of toy figurines—objects that were themselves based on stock images of Native Americans in nineteenth-century landscape paintings of America’s wilderness. Such imagery helped to foster perceptions among non-Natives of Indians as uncivilized, hostile, and an impediment to national progress defined by westward expansion.
The irregular “fins” around the edges of Wolberger’s sculpture, which mimic the seams of their mass-produced toy counterparts, symbolize the continuing proliferation of standardized images of Native Americans and the American frontier. Moreover, the lack of detail and the generic character of his warrior underscore the ways in which stereotypes deny historical circumstances and ignore the diversity of Native peoples.
Artist: Yoram Wolberger, American, born Tel Aviv, Israel, 1963
Medium: 3-D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, reinforced fiberglass composites, Urethane paint
Dates: 2008
Dimensions: 75 x 75 x 22 in. (190.5 x 190.5 x 55.9 cm)
Collections: Contemporary Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Special Exhibition Gallery, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 2008.71
Edition: Edition: 3 (with 2 artist proofs)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by the Mark & Hilarie Moore Family Trust in memory of Robert H. Chaney
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/186400/Red_...
Yoram Wolberger’s sculpture of a Native American warrior belongs to a series of monumental versions of the plastic toy figurines that the artist used to stage elaborate mock battles between cowboys and Indians during his youth. Though infused with nostalgia, Red Indian #4 also invokes the violence that permeates both popular childhood games and the history of indigenous peoples in North America.
To create his sculpture, Wolberger took molds of toy figurines—objects that were themselves based on stock images of Native Americans in nineteenth-century landscape paintings of America’s wilderness. Such imagery helped to foster perceptions among non-Natives of Indians as uncivilized, hostile, and an impediment to national progress defined by westward expansion.
The irregular “fins” around the edges of Wolberger’s sculpture, which mimic the seams of their mass-produced toy counterparts, symbolize the continuing proliferation of standardized images of Native Americans and the American frontier. Moreover, the lack of detail and the generic character of his warrior underscore the ways in which stereotypes deny historical circumstances and ignore the diversity of Native peoples.
Artist: Yoram Wolberger, American, born Tel Aviv, Israel, 1963
Medium: 3-D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, reinforced fiberglass composites, Urethane paint
Dates: 2008
Dimensions: 75 x 75 x 22 in. (190.5 x 190.5 x 55.9 cm)
Collections: Contemporary Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Special Exhibition Gallery, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 2008.71
Edition: Edition: 3 (with 2 artist proofs)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by the Mark & Hilarie Moore Family Trust in memory of Robert H. Chaney
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/186400/Red_...
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