Donderdag 24 Januari 2013

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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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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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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Het Tropenmuseum brengt een ode aan zijn eigen verzamelingen met de tentoonstelling Onverwachte ontmoetingen. Verborgen verhalen uit eigen collectie.
Een Afrikaans krachtbeeld ontmoet een Apple computer en een kunstwerk met portretten van Marlene Dumas een Duitse staalkaart met veertig verschillende oogkleuren.

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The series Faces and Phases of acclaimed photographer Zanele Muholi was included in dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel and Oldenburg, Germany from June to September 2012 and co-produced by Stevenson Gallery and the Goethe-Institut. It will now return to South Africa for an exhibition at the Goethe-Institut.

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Maskers in uiteenlopende vormen. In deze tijd waar we onszelf steeds meer blootgeven in sociale media is er tegelijkertijd de behoefte om onszelf weer te verhullen. Eeuwenoude maskers die figureren in foto's; schilderijen en glassculpturen, crossovers van culturen, nieuwe combinaties. Schilderijen van Pathy Tshindele Kapinga (Congo) en Eva Spierenburg (NL), foto's van Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou (Benin) en Uche Okpa-Iroha (Nigeria) en glassculpturen van Geir Nustad (Noorwegen/NL).

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In 2011 reisde fotograaf Mario Marino (Oostenrijk, 1967) naar de Omo vallei in Zuid-Ethiopië, nabij de grens tussen Kenya en Sudan. Zijn ontmoetingen op straat en op de markt resulteerde in een indrukwekkende serie portretten van mensen die behoren tot zeven kleine bevolkingsgroepen: Surma, Karo, Hamar, Borena-Oromo, Tsimaw, Mursi en Erbore. Zelfbewust en trots op hun culturele eigenheid poseerden tientallen mensen voor hem. Uit de lichaamsbeschilderingen, littekentatoeages en sieraden blijkt dat men traditionele opvattingen over schoonheid en identiteit nog steeds belangrijk vindt.

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Beeldhouwer en kunstenaar Josiah Onodome Onemu (1945) is afkomstig uit Nigeria. Hij woont en werkt al tientallen jaren in Nederland. Deze expositie toont een overzicht van zijn brede oeuvre, waarvan een deel in beheer is van het Afrika Museum en een deel bestaat uit de privé-collectie van de kunstenaar. Vruchtbaarheid, het samenspel van tegendelen, lijden en wanhoop, hoop en beloftes, verandering en afscheid – de grote thema’s van het leven worden in het werk van Josiah Onemu nu eens sober, tot de essentie gereduceerd, dan weer verhalend in beeld gebracht. Hoe verschillend de uitwerking ook kan zijn, het onderwerp heeft altijd betrekking op mens en maatschappij.

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The flipbook, NO, IT IS, designed by Fourthwall and co-published with the Goodman Gallery, was the start of a new project of making flipbooks and flipbook films. Both book and films are seen for the first time in this exhibition.

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Aziz Lkhattaf maakt schilderijen in allerlei formaten. Onder de kleine doeken is een serie ‘portretten’. Menselijke figuren teruggebracht tot rechthoekige vlakken uitgevoerd in verschillende ingehouden kleuren. De hoofden hebben geen gezicht, de lichamen missen iedere detaillering. Anonieme figuren. Zelfs het geslacht is onduidelijk. Komen ze voort uit een religieuze Arabische traditie die het verbeelden van mensen afwijst? Of zijn het portretten van mensen die geen enkel oordeel willen geven of geen enkele interpretatie willen voorleggen? Het werk van Aziz Lkhattaf was nooit eerder in Nederland te zien. Het is bekend want veel getoond in het Noorden van Afrika.

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"Being productive is overtly optimistic. The numbers don't lie. Composition is a trick. Selective control is the right of every citizen. The people should have delicacy. The people should have access to the subtle and the sublime, as a matter of principle." Jaco van Schalkwyk received his BFA in Drawing from the Pratt Institute, New York in 2003. With Carl Hancock Rux, he developed Rux's Mycenaean as Visiting Artist at the department of Theater, CalArts in 2005 and 2006, culminating in an engagement as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2006. He returned to South Africa, and to drawing, in 2008.

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is a small group of works in between painting and sculpture, with slightly dishonest ambitions towards the performing arts, and actively jealous of  the written or spoken. :(  Picture it  :) Gerda Scheepers was born in 1979 in Tzaneen, South Africa and lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Dusseldorf Art Academy in 2005 and won the Art Cologne Pries fuer junge Kunst in 2006. Her solo exhibition Low and partial. Romantic Comedy has just opened at Kunstverein Nuremberg, Germany.

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Siemon Allen’s Labels is a large architectural installation displayed in the museum’s Music Room. This visual memorial to South Africa’s rich musical past features 5000 photographs of record labels inserted into a suspended clear plastic curtain. The site-responsive installation has been configured to converse with part of the museum’s collection of historical artifacts and meanders through the space amongst the musical instruments and clocks, to form a number of intimate accessible enclosures. The exhibition is a historical record, a chronological discography of select labels from Allen's archive.

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For the exhibition, the artist has created a series of installations from black wood which serve to challenge the viewer who wishes to enter and experience particular spaces. Alongside these are free-standing sculptures and paintings, mostly on panels taken from art crates; on the latter he creates abstract planes inspired in turn by previous installations and sculptures. Also on view is Nitegeka's first film, BLACK SUBJECTS, in which a group of performers move through his studio environment, 'performing' his sculptures, their interactions 'based on the improvised negotiations of survival'.

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In South Africa, the landscape has unavoidable political connotations because the country's strife is entwined with the ownership of the land - a situation that continues to this day. These issues have dominated depictions of the landscape in recent years, with formal concerns understandably of secondary concern. While remaining aware of the polemics of land, Kannemeyer is selecting works for the exhibition that challenge perceptions of the landscape, rather than issues identified with the land or 'clever conceptual plays'. It is unexpected interpretations of one of the most traditional genres in the history of art that resonate most strongly with him.

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Through inventively re-edited interviews, fan performances and montaged cinema sequences, Breitz's works present a new take on contemporary portraiture by creating innovative narratives to probe and analyse individual experience. A major part of the exhibition will be the inclusion of The Woods, a new work making its international debut. Co-commissioned with the Peabody Essex Museum, Breitz's new trilogy focuses on child performers and the performance of childhood to probe aspirations and promises embedded in mainstream cinema.

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Music as an expression of national identity is a common theme on stamps. That was also the case with the stamps of the previous Music-on-African-stamps exhibition. However, the stamps of the present exhibition show a very different picture, which has nothing to do with national identity: European composers and western “heroes of popular music”. Stamps showing European composers like Ludwig van Beethoven, Igor Strawinsky, Johann Sebastiaan Bach,  Georg Friedrich Händel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, black music heroes like Louis Armstrong, Billy Holiday, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Lionel Hampton and Jimmy Hendrix and white music heroes like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan.

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