Greeting visitors at the entrance to Socrates Sculpture Park is a new Broadway Billboard by Beninese artist Meschac Gaba.Titled Citoyen Du Monde this work is the artist’s vision for a global flag, created by elongating individual flags from every country in the world into narrow triangles that converge at a central point. This optically spectacular work presents an image of idealism and optimism for resolution of the difficulties and crises that divide our world. The singularity of each flag is lost in the rhythm of the composition as is the case in the age of globalization where national borders merge into the international.
Citoyen Du Monde is Courtesy of the artist, Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
