Muhanned Cader
(Born 1966 in Sri Lanka; works in Oxford and Colombo)
Flag II (North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)
Object Details
Artist
Muhanned Cader
Date
2010
Medium
Oil on aluminum
Dimensions
30 × 40 inches (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired through the George and Mary Rockwell Fund
Object
Number
2012.010.002
In these two paintings (2012.010.001, 2012.010.002), Muhanned Cader not only references various hist(…)
In these two paintings (2012.010.001, 2012.010.002), Muhanned Cader not only references various histories of landscape painting, as well as a history of abstraction and Color Field painting within global modern history, but also the transformation of that abstraction into a tricolor flag, a symbol of nationalism. Working from photographs of Unawatuna Beach, Sri Lanka, and North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland), Cader is obliquely addressing the politicization of territories and national boundaries, and the unequal power structures that control them.
