2010 - Negro Electro - Max Eternity

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Negro Electro An artistic hypothesis and Manifesto

This newly created art genre, Negro Electro, provides a well-defined forum for the mural, craft, and color field derivatives that Afro-Artists have contributed to the overall aesthetic of European-American modern art.

Negro Electro operates with a forward-thinking orientation, also operating w ithin the context of global advancements in electro-digital fine art. Predecessors that have inspired this m ovement range from Harriet Powers, Aaron Douglass and Wilfredo Lam, to Sam Gilliam, Elizabeth Catlett and Henry C. Porter.

In a parallel vein contra sting the 1990’s “Post-Black” aesthetic, Negro Electro represents a sector of the new Black. The “Post-Black” genre found a home by affirming its assimilation into contemporary art, accomplishing this via a default rejection of the Negro or Black label, while also poking fun at “Whiteness.” In contrast, Negro Electro articulates Blackness as a graciously inherited, liberating force that has a potent and formidable artistic pedigree, evolved as a consequence of the American Negro Diaspora. Negro Electro accepts Whiteness as a part of Blackness, for it is a stark reality that Americans—the West--simply cannot escape.

In the abstract, Negro Electro is characterized by a collective of attributes largely defined by bold use of color or galvanizing monochroma tic scales, lyrical composition, and ‘coded’ Afro-ethnic themes. Whether representational or figural, the genre often presents a quilt or mural inspired narration. Symbols and graphics are used to reveal a direct lineage to the simplistically elegant, yet primitive, pre-emancipated Negro, who would most likely have been creating in an arts and cr afts style reminiscent of pre-colonial Africa. Negro Electro reflects the Black experience in America in its essential dichotomy of the ancient and the present, the primitive and the modern. Yet, however minimalist or simplistic, Negro Electro is the embodiment of a sophisticated, multi-faceted expression of creativity, which mirrors the complex connections that contemporary Western Blacks have with Africa and America in this post-digital millennia.

Max Eternity 2004 - 2008

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Max Eternity, 2004-2010

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