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wood tempera
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Museum Purchase: funds provided by the Goodrich Foundation, Suzanne Crist Botts in memory of John Crist, John and Judith Alexander, Selena Beaudry and Gray Ellison, Gwen Bland, Bee and Chris Jensen, Sonia and Isaac Luski, Larry Brady, contributions from the Contemporary Coalition, and exchange funds from the gifts of various donors
Combining wood’s visual warmth and frankness with a startling sense of isolation, Bob Trotman conveys a variety of narratives about the masks and personas that are taken on when working within a competitive organization. Cover Up was inspired by a scene from Sergei Eisenstein’s iconic 1925 film The Battleship Potemkin, in which mutinous crew members are shrouded by a tarpaulin before facing a firing squad. As in Eisenstein’s film, the shrouded figures of Cover Up could represent sacrificial victims, those scapegoated to serve as a ritualistic purging of collective wrongdoing. The diminutive scale of the figures could signify the shame or denial of what secret thing has transpired and must remain hidden, or imply something adolescent and underdeveloped—children dressed in business attire playing a collective game of hide–and–seek.
Accession Number: 2010.71
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NEPL Mint signed nonexclusive license with artist, 2010
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