Woensdag 23 Maart 2011

Amado (Sao Tomé) omschreef het leven ooit als een labyrint. Met name in zijn abstractere werken lijkt hij dit uitgangspunt haast letterlijk vorm te geven. Opening door Pieter van Welzen, advocaat/partner bij Clifford Chance, en presentatie lente editie van ZAM, hét platform van Afrikaans talent, door hoofdredacteur Bart Luirink.

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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.

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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

SA fans that have been following the recent news of André Rieu's cancellation of tour dates in Australia and Europe need not be concerned. The King of Waltz will return to South Africa in March 2011.

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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.

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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.

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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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South Africa's 4th Cape Winelands Film Festival in Stellenbosch and Cape Town -  more information soon

Cape Winelands Film Festival

Abdellatif Kechiche (2010). Historisch drama naar het waargebeurde verhaal van Saartjie Baartman. In 1810 verliet zij met haar meester Caezar haar geboorteland Zuid-Afrika om als circusattractie te worden opgevoerd voor sensatiezoekende blanken in Londen. De Filmkrant schreef: 'Belangrijke, imponerende film, waarover lang kan worden nagepraat.' De VPRO-Gids noemt de film kortweg 'Een meesterwerk'

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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.

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Celebrates the amazing creative energy inherent in artists across Africa - by showcasing the works of some of its most recognised and celebrated artists - It will be a collage of emphatic energy, masterful explorations that will enthral, educate and engage. Also features some of Africa’s exciting image makers, through the mediums of African fashion and music.

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The only festival in Italy entirely dedicated to the cinema and cultures of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. More than 50 countries are represented with about 80 films and videos screened.

21st African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival

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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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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Annemarijne Bax (NL, 1981) fotografeerde Zuid-Afrikaanse grootmoeders voor World Granny. Tijdens de tentoonstelling geeft Bax een aantal lezingen (op vrijdagmiddag) over de trends, ontwikkelingen en resultaten van ontwikkelingssamenwerking bij de doelgroep ouderen in verschillende werelddelen. Voor de lezingen graag aanmelden (zie sites voor details).

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Een avond vol uiteenlopende spetterende buikdansstijlen. De Shimmy Shake Show laat je betoveren en onderdompelen in wereld van de Oriëntaalse buikdans, met onder meer Rachid en haar indrukwekkende beheersing van de Egyptische buikdanstechniek. De avond wordt georganiseerd door Lite Side, die meerwaarde van de Oriëntaalse cultuur aan het actuele westerse culturele aanbod benadrukt.

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Twintig jaar geleden richtte een groep Amsterdamse kunstenaars een artists-in-residence programma op, waardoor kunstenaars uit Afrika drie maanden in Amsterdam kunnen wonen en werken. Jubileumtentoonstelling met werk van 26 van de 68 kunstenaars die de afgelopen 20 jaar in het atelier verbleven.

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Maison Descartes biedt een programma vol film, literatuur en kunst. Van 10-31 maart de fototentoonstelling Petits d'Hommes in Maison Descartes, 23 maart een literaire avond met de Franse auteur van Senegalese afkomst Mamadou N'Donga, op 26 maart dag van franse cinema in The Movies met o.a. de Marokkaanse film Les oubliés de l'histoires en No man's love uit Tunesië.

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Recent sculpture and painting by Congolese-born artist Aimé Mpane. His work indicts the social and political reality around him, a reality shaped by a perspective wrought out of his ability to express universal human emotions and deep understanding of the aesthetic and cultural character of the African continent.

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Amado (Sao Tomé) omschreef het leven ooit als een labyrint. “Je weet nooit wat je de volgende dag te wachten staat.” Met name in zijn abstractere werken lijkt hij dit uitgangspunt haast letterlijk vorm te geven. Het hele oppervlak is gevuld met labyrintachtige vormen. Heel kleurig, in elkaar grijpend, warrig.

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One of Durban’s most prolific and highly respected artists presents five distinct series that together form this exhibition. Medium and large-scale oils on canvas, 120 palm size sculptures – Signposts, pen and ink drawings – People of Importance and Remnants, and an installation of cutouts – Sacred Memories.

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Images that border on the macabre and fantastical, qualified by a vein of dark humour and tragicomedy. Mug shots of vicious criminals rub shoulders with stuffed gorillas, concrete dinosaurs square off against burlesque wrestlers: a phantasmagoria of ill-starred misfits.

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Drawn entirely from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now features nearly 100, posters, books, and wall stencils created over the last five decades that demonstrate the exceptional reach, range, and impact of printmaking during and after a period of enormous political upheaval.

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Seeks to complicate representations of Africa through a set of works on cities as sites of convergence of multiple pasts and futures. Includes photo installations by Sammy Baloji, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlangeni, and Guy Tillim and video installations by Salem Mekuria and IngridMwangiRobertHutter.

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By Sanaa Afrika. Feauturing Tinga Tinga paintings from Tanzania and Shona stone sculptures From Zimbabwe. Now also available during the exhibition Tinga Tinga tales, colourful childrens' books inspired by traditional animal stories from Africa.

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A number of works that show how Hlobo uses sculpture, installation, performance and drawing to address issues of gender, cultural difference and contemporary politics. Hlobo’s work implicates viewers in the scenario of South African culture, providing enough clues to bridge the differences between his local cultural sensitivities and those of a global art world.

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Works featured in this installation are highly creative re-imaginings of the iconic form of the African mask. Among them are sculptural assemblages made of incongruous combinations of discarded materials by two contemporary artists from the Republic of Benin, Romuald Hazoumé (b. 1962) and Calixte Dakpogan (b. 1958).

Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents