Maandag 15 Oktober 2012

Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

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While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

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Lalla Essaydi's elegant, creative work belies it subversive, challenging nature. Approximately 30 works of diverse media are drawn from each of her photographic series, including the richly hued Silence of Thought and the more widely known Converging Territories and Les Femmes de Maroc. The exhibition also includes a selection of new works, as well as rarely exhibited paintings and installations.

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Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.

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Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

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De veelzijdige Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar William Kentridge ontwikkelde de afgelopen decennia een multidisciplinaire werkwijze waarin film, animatie, tekenkunst, grafiek en theater samenkomen. Typerend voor zijn werk zijn de krachtige houtskool- en pasteltekeningen die hij tot bewegend beeld transformeert. Black Box/Chambre Noire is een mechanisch theater waarin gedurende 23 minuten zes mechanische figuren beurtelings optreden tegen een geprojecteerde achtergrond van geanimeerde houtskooltekeningen.

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Exhibition focuses on the complexities of global exchange fostered by capitalism, and its effects on life and art. Time, Trade & Travel set the participating artists on a quest for the historical encounters between Europeans and Africans, in which trade and the concomitant cultural exchange receive particular attention. In collaboration with the Nubuke Foundation in Accra, Ghana and featuring Dutch and Ghanese artists.

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An outstanding exploration of the sounds and rhythms of Africa and the Diaspora and a groundbreaking digital experience that pays homage to artists and music of Africa and the African diaspora, the first tribute to black artists of its kind. The exhibition uses state-of-the-art technology, with over 100 interactive audio-visual setups transmitting the sights, sounds and rhythms of artists from all over the world. The exhibition comprises of a mind-blowing 13 hours’ worth of footage.

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Baron Binnert Van Harinxma thoe Slooten en bioloog Gerrit Brouwer kregen op 2 november 1930 de unieke kans om de kroning van keizer Haile Selassie in Ethiopië bij te wonen. Maak hun expeditie mee met de foto's, persoonlijke aantekeningen en filmbeelden. De reis naar Ethiopië had oorspronkelijk het doel om de dierenwereld te bestuderen, maar hoogtepunt van de reis werd uiteindelijk de kroning van Haile Selassie.

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Op zondag 16 september om 16:00 uur wordt de expositie in aanwezigheid van de kunstenaar geopend door Sasha Dees, independent producer / curator on international art projects (New York / Amsterdam) en curator van Open Ateliers Zuidoost Residency programma. De Thami Mnyele Stichting heeft Ekpuk twee weken (tot 24 september) ondergebracht in haar Amsterdamse studio.

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Mufuki Mukuna is known for his moody portraits and urban landscapes, often depicting a darker side of life. His characters appear to be on an identity quest, sometimes showing signs of despair and loneliness. Using oil on canvas and other mixed media materials, the artist creates powerful images. He has the ability to paint scenes suggesting a blend of serenity intertwined with very disturbing feelings, creating a unique harmony. Exhibition opening: Friday 21 September 18.00h. The artist will be present.

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Photographic exhibition examining the legacy of the apartheid system and how it penetrated even the most mundane aspects of social existence in South Africa, from housing, public amenities, and transportation to education, tourism, religion, and businesses. Complex, vivid, evocative, and dramatic, it includes nearly 500 photographs, films, books, magazines, newspapers, and assorted archival documents and covers more than 60 years of powerful photographic and visual production that forms part of the historical record of South Africa.

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Rhode Bath-Schéba Makoumbou is geboren op 29 augustus 1976 in Brazzaville, Republiek Congo. Sinds haar kinderjaren werd ze ingewijd in de schilderkunst door haar vader, de schilder David Makoumbou Vanaf 1989 heeft ze zich ten volle geëngageerd in de kunst. In haar werken legt ze vooral de nadruk op de traditionele sociale activiteiten van de Afrikaanse vrouw. Vernissage op 05/10 om 18u30 (natje, droogje en streepje muziek).

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Een fototentoonstelling over het leven in Kliptown, onderdeel van Soweto bij Johannesburg. De bijzondere foto’s van Hanneke de Vries (NL) en David Blom (ZA) brengen Kliptown en de Kliptonians, zoals de inwoners van Kliptown zichzelf noemen, op intieme wijze in beeld. Overigens zonder voyeuristisch te worden.

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HIV staat in Afrika voor Hoop is Vital. Mensen in Mutare (Zimbabwe) hebben dat ontwikkeld als levensstijl. Met een fototentoonstelling van 10 intieme portretten van mensen die in bijzonder moeilijke omstandigheden vorm geven aan hun leven, geeft Dik Bol inkijk in deze dagelijkse dans op de vulkaan. Opening: 14 oktober, 16:00 uur. In het kader van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare.

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Zulu has a deep interest in biology, sociology, astronomy, philosophy, history and psychology. The word histopathology from the exhibition title, refers to the microscopic examination of tissue undertaken to study the manifestations of disease. Zulu acts as pathologist, so to speak, looking at the universality of our human biology as a metaphor for exploring what he understands to be a “diseased society”, where our lived human experience is far from the one of the universality which our cells, tissues, muscles would suggest it to be.

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Understood broadly as “the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work”, it is 1970s Appropriation Art with which Uwe Wittwer (Switzerland) shares leitmotif. In this new body of work the artist adopts and adapts anonymous, unfamiliar but somewhat recognizable images.  These include still lifes, interiors, family portraits, genre scenes and Old Master paintings. Wittwer digitally processes these found images by mirroring, inverting, blurring, distorting, under- and over-exposing, omitting, isolating and layering the image’s original elements.

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Acclaimed for his work in animated film, visual art, theater, and opera, William Kentridge had his first survey exhibition in the United States in 2001 at MCA Chicago. From this exhibition, the MCA acquired more than a dozen drawings and two of his best-known films: Felix in Exile (1994) and History of the Main Complaint (1996), both of which will be on view. The drawings featured in the exhibition are those used to make this latter film—charcoal sketches that Kentridge erased and reworked to create the memorable segments that depict his alter egos and their struggles in late and post-apartheid Johannesburg: Felix Teitlebaum, the romantic artist who is always shown nude, and Soho Eckstein, the self-absorbed, wealthy mine owner and land developer who always wears a pinstriped suit.

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