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IÑIGO MANGLANO-OVALLE, Paternity Test (self-portra

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Paternity Test (self-portrait with parents), 1999

Triptych: color photographs mounted to Plexiglas. 63 x 20 in. (160 x 50.8 cm) - 70 x 20 in. (177.8 x 50.8 cm) each. Each signed "Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle" on a label adhered to the reverse. This work is unique.

PROVENANCE Max Protetch, New York
Paternity Test (Self-portrait with Parents), a unique work from Manglano-Ovalle's groundbreaking DNA-Portrait series, uses genomic technology to critique the infamous tradition of casta (caste) painting in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Spain. During that time, Spanish colonials commissioned casta paintings to illustrate the different racial "mixtures" that were developing in the New World. Himself a Spanish immigrant, Manglano-Ovalle's work frequently explores issues of race and acculturation in the United States, of which Paternity Test (Self-portrait with Parents), is an example.

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