Aberash | አበራሽ | You Give Light II
Artist
Tsedaye Makonnen
(Ethiopian-American, born 1984)
Date2023
MediumMirrored stainless steel, plexiglass, LED tubes, and assembly bolts and nuts
DimensionsOverall: 120 × 12 × 12 inches (304.8 × 30.48 × 30.48 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund
Object number2026.11.1.1-25
On View
Not on viewAfrica and Byzantium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, November 19, 2023-March 3, 2024.
Purchased from the artist by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2026.
Yaelle Biro and Constantin Petridis, Les Arts Africains: Histoire et Dynamique (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2025), 504-505, (repro.).
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F91-77/10.A-D
Christo
1978
2024.68.13.1,2
