Maandag 28 Februari 2011

This legendary band was formed in the late 1960's by guitarist Mamady "Djelike" Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah. They made some of the most beloved music of their generation. Now based in New York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. Every Wednesday night.

mandingo ambassadors at my space

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fespaco

Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. Examines their specific urban topography and culture and highlights the perception of the urban environment in art. Works on display comprise photographs, graphic art, painting, sculptures and video art.

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Broad spectrum of contemporary African art, design, and craft, work by over 100 artists working in Africa and elsewhere. The Global Africa Project surveys the rich pool of new talent emerging from Africa and its influence on artists around the world.

madmuseum

Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.

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Eshetu (Ethiopia/NL) explores themes like the relationship between nature and technology and the idea of life as a spectacle, using images from his personal geography: scenes from a dance in Bali or footage from visits to New York City and Ethiopia.

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De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.

afrikamuseum

More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.

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From the international contemporary photography, art film and video collection of the Fondazione. Participating African artists include: Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), George Osodi (Nigeria), Wael Shawki (Egypt), Jodi Bieber, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, Guy Tillim (South Africa).

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Drie Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars: Dineo Seshee Bopape (1981), Zanele Muholi (1972) worden geplaatst naast het werk van Marlene Dumas (1953). Feminisme is een belangrijk thema. Muholi - zelf lesbisch - kaart onderwerpen aan waar een taboe op ligt: homofobie en transseksualiteit. Ze strijdt tegen discriminatie en richt zich juist op de positieve beeldvorming van de lesbische leefwereld.

MMKA

Klassieker uit 1951 met Humphrey Bogart & Kathrine Hepburn. Een verroeste schuit onderhoudt een bescheiden post- en goederendienst op een Duits-Afrikaanse rivier rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Een Engelse zendeling protesteert en sterft na de verwoesting van zijn dorp door de brute Duitsers. De ongelikte kapitein van de African Queen moet zich ontfermen over zijn zuster die wraak wil.

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Tanzanian painter, illustrator and author John Kilaka travels round the countryside and writes down the tales the villagers tell him. They are traditional African animal fables, which deal with friendship, conflict, reconciliation and solidarity. Kilaka illustrates the stories with powerful, vibrant pictures in the Tingatinga style.

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Abe Mathabe is meester van het intieme als kunstenaar. Hij tekent en maakt piepkleine figuratieve etsen; landschappen, die hij tekent al reizend door Zuid-Afrika en Botswana; en mensen (“ladies moving away on windy days”). Zijn grote voorbeeld is Rembrandt van Rijn.

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Deze bijzondere collectie sieraden is afkomstig uit een gebied dat zich uitstrekt van Noord-Afrika, Midden-Oosten en Azië. Ze vertellen het krachtige verhaal van schoonheid, vakmanschap en economische waarde. Ze staan voor esthetiek, maar ook voor magische spiritualiteit. Deze recent geschonken collectie wordt nu voor het eerst tentoongesteld.

wereldmuseum

Focuses on a younger generation of international contemporary African artists. These artists often deal with issues of identity, migration and displacement and question their purpose as artists in the wider, but fast moving 21st century world. They seek to observe and represent all realms of life including the dysfunctional nature of the world we live in.

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Bringing together old and new photographs of Johannesburg, the exhibition's title refers to the obsolete South African motorcar registration acronym 'Transvaal, Johannesburg'. These letters, Goldblatt explains, 'implied a certain loyalty'. The exhibition elucidates on aspects of the sprawling city of Johannesburg, which both infuriate and astound the photographer.

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Many African cities have streets, roads and squares named after Patrice Lumumba. With clear, precise and engaged images, Guy Tillim focuses on the modernistic architecture that is a symbol of the original optimism about an independent post-colonial Africa.

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The exhibition Artists in Dialogue: Sandile Zulu and Henrique Oliveira is the second in a series of exhibitions in which exciting artists (at least one of whom is African) are invited to a new encounter -- one in which each artist responds to the work of the other, and resulting in original, site-specific works at the museum.

Artists in Dialogue II

Work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), though a few now live elsewhere. Darkroom’s eight sections highlight the ways that these artists have addressed South African culture from various perspectives, and their increased presence in the global art world since 1994.

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Since 2000 the One Minutes Foundation (TOM) organises competitions for the best one minutes video. This time African artists are invited to enter the first African One Minutes Competition. There are 6 categories, for more information check Facebook or the One Minutes website. The deadline is 15 July 2011.

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Donso makes an interesting mix of traditional Malinese muziek and moderne electro. Tribal music meets Tiësto, as he would it describe himself. Donso is now on tour in Europe and will play in France, Italy and the UK. In the Uk, Donso will be joined by Seun Kuti and Egypt 80.

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The highly perceptive nature of her figure sketches using red earth and ink gives Soggot's art emotive gravitas. With great meaning and determination, Soggot applies marks to paper to render narratives between human figures. Her monochromatic palette sets a mood of calm and tenderness, drawing the view into these intimate scenes.

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Dylan Lewis was born in Johannesburg in 1964.  He is the son of the late well-known sculptor Robin Lewis & comes from an artistic family. Nicholas Hammond (British author of 20th Century Wildlife Artists) about him: what he has achieved is impressive

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Malcolm Payne will present a series of paintings premised on the aesthetics, history and significance of facial hair. This is Payne's 18th solo exhibition. His previous solo exhibition, Illuminated Manuscripts - Third selection, was held at the Irma Stern Museum in 2005.

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Barker has produced a new body of work that confronts and questions the new South African culture in all its diverse manifestations, while celebrating the underlying force and spirit of optimism that binds and drives our unique country.

standardbankarts

Investigates the memory of the South African Border War through constructed photographs based upon specific examples of photographic images from the media coverage of the time. These photographs will be exhibited as a transactive intervention that challenges the growing public discourse around the memory and implications of the war.

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The independent voice for black Africa, presents an unique contemporary African dance project: Desert Crossings. Choreographer Gregory Maqoma is regarded a visionary in his country of birth South Africa. The inspiration for Desert Crossings came from the backdrop of the red rock cliffs on the Devon coastline and is supported by UNESCO for the close work with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team.

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Relocation, displacement, impermanence, marginalisation constructed the social landscapings of Apartheid, these mappings have remained indelible. Stodel’s work references the Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area near Delft on Cape Town’s flats and its thousand closely stacked corrugated tin shacks.

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Maljević's latest show sees her showing numerous large oil pantings, along with a selection of prints. Maljević's characteristic style meanders between abstraction and figuration, blending them with areas of deliberately obscure and confusing text.

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Selected work from the past three decades alongside her latest two series – Other Voices, Other Cities, an international series of projects documented in photographs, and The Diaries of Lady Anne B. The theme running through all of these rather different works is that of personal history, and in many cases, the exact words people use to express themselves.

goodman-gallery

South African photographer Pieter Hugo asked Nigerian actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets and photographed them. The resulting images recreate the stereotypical characters that typify Nollywood productions.

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Three South African artists who were important participants in the early years of The Caversham Press. Works reflect Caversham’s early history and articulate the artists’ personal perspectives of living and creating in South Africa in the years between late apartheid and the transition to a new democracy.

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Survey of work from the printmaking studio The Caversham Press located in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Founded in 1985 during the turbulent years of late apartheid, The Caverhsam Press has occupied an important place in the development of South African printmaking.

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Tekeningen op hout van Maarten Dekker, gereduceerd tot de essentie van de vorm van alledaagse objecten, contrasteren met de zinsbegoochelende sculpturen van Barbara Polderman en het visuele spektakel van de mysterieuze schilderijen van Omar Ba. In Ba's werk ervaar je tegenovergestelde werelden: mensen en dieren, vooruitgang en natuur, moderniteit en traditie, het westen en Afrika.

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Not confined to one particular medium, South African Langa’s work consists of gouaches, collages, photographs, expansive installations, and videos. They all reference the larger worlds of art, politics, and popular culture: just like Langa layers diverse materials, he piles up meanings and references that are often cryptic and ambivalent, yet resonant.

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Ernest Cole (1940-1990) passionately believed in his mission to tell the world in photographs what it meant to be black under Apartheid rule. He penetrated to the very depths of the existence of black people as they negotiated their lives through the insanity of apartheid and its racist laws and oppression.

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