Adam Pendleton Is Painting the White Cube Black — SkimNews
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- Adam Pendleton's exhibition "Some Wild Kind of Language" opens Oct. 10 at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the source says the show "will upend expectations"
- Pendleton begins every drawing and painting with a black ground that functions as his primer, then layers marks, colors, and lettering on top before erasing and smudging most of it away
- The "Black Dada" project takes its name from Amiri Baraka's 1964 poem "Black Dada Nihilismus," which the source calls "a radical rejection of Western art and a call for a Black aesthetic"
- Pendleton's Clinton Hill, Brooklyn studio is described as a pristine white-cube gallery, with creative work concentrated in a single large, light-filled room
- The source frames Pendleton as someone who "could easily be seen as a Neo-Expressionist painter who works mostly in shades of black"
Why it matters: Stedelijk Amsterdam is devoting its platform to Adam Pendleton's 'Black Dada' project, which the source says will 'upend expectations.' For viewers, encountering Amiri Baraka's 1964 radical Black aesthetic as a working painting process — rather than protest — brings the lineage into a major European institutional context.
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