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Robin Antar is a sculptor from the New York borough of Brooklyn, and she makes fascinating copies of everyday American objects in stone. One of her works from 2017 is a baseball cap with the slogan “Maga” – written out “Make America Great Again”.
The new US president Donald Trump had not invented it himself, he just made it popular again.
For Robin Antar, the focus of her work is on “observations,” as she herself calls them, observations on everyday culture in the USA. She elevates these objects to the rank of petrifications, so to speak – everyone is free to find an individual interpretation.
She came up with the subject when, after the 9/11 attacks, many US artists made the country‘s flag or the Twin Towers their theme, while Robin Antar was more interested in the question: “What actually is America?”
Many books have been written on the subject. We are currently reading “The Epic of America” (James Truslow Adams, 1931), which deals, among other things, with why the northern part of the continent has developed so differently from the southern part, even though the colonialists all came from European culture. By the way, it was Adams who coined the term “American Dream.”
Robin Antar has turned her attention to those everyday objects that are universally associated with the USA. We have already portrayed her and shown her stone ketchup bottle, the cowboy hat, the denim jacket and so on.
She also leaves it up to the viewer to make an assessment of the baseball cap and the slogan, which obviously speaks to the hearts and minds of many US citizens – clearly, freedom of opinion is a very valuable commodity in the USA.
However, we can add that she also likes to make comments, preferably sarcastic ones, as she tells us in an e-mail: “I’ve achieved my goal when the U.S. government writes to tell me I cannot copyright a work of art because it too closely resembles the product that I chose to record in stone. The day I received that letter was one of the happiest days of my life.“
Photos: Robin Antar
