Exhibition at Gateshead’s Baltic gallery has ‘humanity and healing at its core’
Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American artist renowned for recreating ancient Middle Eastern sculptures, said Elena Clavarino on Air Mail. He does this not with limestone or basalt, but using cardboard, food packaging and other modern materials. In 2018, for instance, he recreated a huge Assyrian statue of a winged bull on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth, entirely from empty date-syrup cans: the original had been demolished by Islamic State.
