BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6704@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211209T180000 DTSTAMP:20211128T171652Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-in-conversation-at-the- bluecoat-the-black-magus-power-and-magnificence-in-renaissance-europe/ SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: In Conversation at the Bluecoat - The Black Mag us: Power and Magnificence in Renaissance Europe DESCRIPTION:The Bluecoat is delighted to welcome independent Art and Cultur al Historian\, Michael Ohajuru on Thursday 9 December at 6pm for an online discussion\, Black Magus: Power and Magnificence in Renaissance Europe.\n \nBOOK HERE\n\nOhajuru\, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth St udies\, researches\, writes and speaks on Black presence in Renaissance Eu rope. He will present his research into the presence of the Black magus or Black king in art history as part of an illustrated Q&\;A with Bluecoa t’s Head of Programme\, Marie-Anne McQuay.\n\nOhajuru will unpack how th e image of the Black magus shifted over time\, what he represented and who might have sat for his studies\, leaving time for questions from the onli ne audience. The conversation has been devised in response to artist Rosa- Johan Uddoh’s exploration of the Black magus\, otherwise known as Baltha zar\, who shifts from a white European to an African king within depiction s of the Nativity.\n\nRosa-Johan Uddoh’s exhibition Practice Makes Perfe ct is now showing at the Bluecoat and includes a major new work\, a large- scale collage\, which investigates the historical figure of Balthazar. Acc ording to tradition\, Balthazar was one of the three biblical magi and lat er a saint\, who offered the gift of myrrh to Jesus. Depicted since mediev al times as a lone black figure in artistic imagery of the Nativity scene or ‘Adoration’\, this king is often the first time school children enc ounter a Black person of importance in a performance.\n\nHistorically\, Ba lthazar is also a figure through which white artists and their patrons in Europe first constructed ‘Blackness’. Through her research\, with the assistance of Nasra Abdullahi\, Uddoh has found and catalogued around 150 historical ‘Balthazars’ featured in ‘Adoration’ paintings made thr oughout European history. Thinking about the real\, Black European sitters for these paintings\, Uddoh’s billboard-style collage brings these Blac k kings together in friendship groups on a long march of solidarity to cha nge the West.\n\nThe exhibition commissioned in partnership with Focal Poi nt Gallery is showing at the Bluecoat until 23 January\, along with A look inside by US artist Deborah Roberts\, and Always Black Never Blue by Live rpool Artist Sumuyya Khader. All three solo exhibitions explore the format ion of identity in the 21st Century. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2021/11/rosa-jonah-uddoh.jpg LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K ingdom GEO:53.404542;-2.984173 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=School Lane\, Liverpool\, L 1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bluecoat:geo :53.404542,-2.984173 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211031T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR