RED AND ORANGE SCULPTURES ON POLES - IT IS TORONTO ART
Sculptures Celebrate Black Identity in The Toronto Sculpture Garden A knick here. A quick glue fix there. It’s not easy being a head on a stick, especially in a downtown Toronto park. But that’s exactly where nine red heads of Black men and women have been hanging since last October as part of Frantz Brent-Harris’ outdoor sculpture installation, Afrophilia. Frantz Brent-Harris The sculptures, painted in vibrant orange and red, reflect the energy and attitude of the young Black generation driving a shift in self-perception and changing the global consciousness of Blackness. The installation is a “love letter to Black people” and a commemoration of the revolutionary heroes who deserve recognition, according to Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND), the charitable organization presenting the exhibition. The sculptures explore the complexities of outward-projection and spectator perception for Black people. They aim to portray in tangible form the constant tension of...