{"id":8179,"date":"2019-06-04T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8179"},"modified":"2019-06-04T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:07:09","slug":"abdoulaye-konate-at-blain-southern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/abdoulaye-konate-at-blain-southern\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdoulaye Konate at Blain Southern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by his home country\u2019s rich tradition of textile working, Malian artist Abdoulaye Konate employs colorful patterns, cut-out shapes and embroidery to depict a sea abundant with life.\u00a0 As with many of his representational works, Konate alludes to social issues including the desertification of the country and the lack of access to clean water while he celebrates the beauty of its traditional fabrics and indigo dyes.\u00a0 (On view at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blainsouthern.com\/exhibitions\/abdoulaye-konate-couleurs-d-ame\">Blain Southern<\/a> in Chelsea through June 15<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8188\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8188\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8188\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8188\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_7322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_7322.jpg 3148w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_7322-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_7322-500x346.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdoulaye Konate, installation view of \u2018Ocean, Mother and Life,\u2019 textile, 118 1\/8 x 229 7\/8 inches, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by his home country\u2019s rich tradition of textile working, Malian artist Abdoulaye Konate employs colorful patterns, cut-out shapes and embroidery to depict a sea abundant with life.\u00a0 As with many of his representational works, Konate alludes to social issues including the desertification of the country and the lack of access to clean water while &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/abdoulaye-konate-at-blain-southern\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abdoulaye Konate at Blain Southern&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8434,8,8435,117,893,1341,4111,97,13,5762,8436,1325,16,1917],"class_list":["post-8179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-abdoulaye-konate","tag-art","tag-blain-southern","tag-chelsea","tag-embroidery","tag-fabric","tag-fish","tag-galleries","tag-gallery","tag-mali","tag-ocean-mother-and-life","tag-textile","tag-tour","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-27V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8189,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions\/8189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}