id: 308829 accession number: 2018.4 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.4 updated: 2025-05-06 12:06:32.076000 Twilight of the Idols (Fetish) 3, 2005. Kendell Geers (South African, b. 1968). Wood, plastic tape (polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon, or vinyl), and iron; overall: 140 x 43 x 39 cm (55 1/8 x 16 15/16 x 15 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller 2018.4 © Kendell Geers title: Twilight of the Idols (Fetish) 3 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2005 creation date earliest: 2005 creation date latest: 2005 current location: creditline: Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller copyright: © Kendell Geers --- culture: South Africa technique: Wood, plastic tape (polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon, or vinyl), and iron department: African Art collection: African Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kendell Geers (South African, b. 1968) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 140 x 43 x 39 cm (55 1/8 x 16 15/16 x 15 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'AfroPunk. Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium. (September 7-October 28, 2017)', 'opening_date': '2017-09-07T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Kendell Geers, 1988-2012. Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE (February 1-May 12, 2013)', 'opening_date': '2013-02-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blandy-les-Tours Castle, in collaboration with Galleria Continua, Blandy-les-Tours, France (June 30-July 10, 2012)', 'opening_date': '2012-06-30T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Fin de Partie. Galleria Continua, Beijing, China (March 19-August 27, 2011)', 'opening_date': '2011-03-19T04:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE (Studio Kendell Geers, Brussels, Belgium, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2018 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2018- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Geers, Kendell and Jerome Sans. “Kendell Geers: A TerroRealist in the house of Love.” In Looking both ways: Art of the contemporary African diaspora. (New York: Museum for African Art; Gent: Snoeck, 2003), 84-97, 179. page number: url: Kendell Geers: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 34 and 37. Exh. Cat. Blandy-les-Tours: Galleria Continua, June 30-July 10, 2012. page number: p. 34, 37 url: http://kendellgeers.com/dbfiles/news/5booklet_final_version.pdf Kellner, Clive, et al. Kendell Geers 1988-2012, 159. Exh. Cat. Munich; London; New York: Prestel, February 1-May 12, 2013. page number: p. 159 url: Geers, Kendell, Jens Hoffman, and Z. S. Strother. AniMystikAKtivist: Between Traditional and the Contemporary in African Art. Brussels: Mercatorfonds, 2018. page number: url: Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. "Contemporary African Art." Cleveland Art (September/October 2018): 8-9. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 8. url: https://www.clevelandart.org/print/magazine/cleveland-art-septemberoctober-2018/contemporary-african-art Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019 page number: Mentioned: p. 20; reproduced: p. 21, fig. 7. url: --- IMAGES