Dinsdag 19 November 2013

A selection of African barbershop boards from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Zaïre. These non-verbal brightly coloured messages were collected over the last forty years by Esger Duintjer in Africa’s big cities, where they are hand-painted using industrial paints and lacquers on walls, hardboard, plywood, metal sheets and used canvas flour bags. Most of the craftsmen are autodidactic and anonymous although some are known by their chosen artist's name or the name of their collective workshop.

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First major exhibition to examine the conceptually complex and visually rich relationship between African artists and the land upon which they live, walk, and frame their days. Approximately 100 artworks are on view in five thematic sections. For the first time, five artists create land-art installations in the Smithsonian gardens. Drawing upon a rich literature related to Earth shrines and religious organizations, this exhibition also contributes new and ground-breaking research on contemporary earthworks in Africa.

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Als uitgangspunt voor haar project The Afronauts, koos Cristina De Middel (1975, Spanje) een klein onderwerp uit de geschiedenis van Zambia. Een ruimtevaartprogramma gestart door een onderwijzer waardoor Zambia mee zou doen aan de internationale ruimtewedloop. Door gebrek aan financiële hulp was het initiatief echter gedoemd te mislukken. 50 jaar na dato reconstrueert De Middel dit verhaal, resulterend in de publicatie The Afronauts en de gelijknamige tentoonstelling; fantasie- en kleurrijke beelden vol humor, met prachtige zelf gecreëerde rekwisieten.

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Samba’s paintings reveal his perception of the social, political, economic and cultural realities of Zaïre, exposing all facets of everyday life in Kinshasa. His canvases offer a running commentary on popular customs, sexuality, AIDS and other illnesses, social inequalities, and corruption. From the late 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings. For Samba, this is not an act of narcissism; rather, like an anchor on TV news broadcasts, he places himself in his work to report on what it means to be a successful African artist on the world stage.

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In his own words, Tei Huagie,”… a painter, sculpture, furniture and fashion designer”. A true artist whose works - paintings, sculpture,furniture and fashion - will launch the opening of the gallery space at Nubuke Foundation.

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A protean and controversial artistic personality between the 1960s and the 1990s, Kevin Atkinson embraced a multiplicity of approaches to making art and made a deep impression on generations of students at UCT. This exhibition, drawn from the Atkinson’s underground studio named ‘Plato’s Cave’, is both a posthumous tribute and an attempt to come to a greater understanding of the impressive contribution that he made to South African art, both as an artist and an educator.

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Essentially Art exposeert in november niet eerder getoond werk van drie gerenommeerde Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars. In galerie ‘Bart Invites’ is de expositie ‘Fragile’ te zien van Lionel Smit, Ruhan Janse van Vuuren en Diane Victor. De kunstenaars hebben gekozen voor de titel ‘Fragile’ door het kwetsbare verleden en de eveneens kwetsbare toekomst van Zuid-Afrika, een land met een hart van goud en bakermat van verschillende interessante kunststromen.

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Roger Ballen (b. 1950) has been shooting black-and-white film for nearly a half-century. A New York native, he has lived in South Africa for more than thirty years. Ballen's photographs of rural Afrikaners in their homes and urban-based "outsiders" in windowless rooms quickly became distinguished for their interior arrangements and the events that transpired among the people, animals, and furnishings within. Ballen's interest in line-whether of coat hangers, electric wire, or marks made on walls-has been constant.

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Over the past eight years Hugo has turned his eye on cramped townships, contested farmlands and abandoned mining areas; psychologically charged still lifes in people's homes; sites of political significance; drifters and the homeless; his pregnant wife, and his daughter moments after her birth; the domestic servants who have worked for the Hugo family over three generations. The series alternates between intimate and public spaces, with particular emphasis on the growing disparity between rich and poor, and reveals Hugo's deeply conflicted feelings about his home. Both Cape Town and Johannesburg, dates differ.

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Exploration of nostalgia in five African countries; Senegal, Nigeria, Algeria, Benin and South Africa. This exhibition tells the stories of bygone eras – positioning them firmly within present day narratives. Through architecture, construction, cartography, photography, communal archives, and historical reenactment, each artist and participant has a conversation with a past through which they did not live by juxtaposing design elements with those of today.

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Explores representations of the structures that the bare eye cannot see. Marx focuses on the structures that hold or shape the fluid aspects of existence; the ribcage that holds the soft, near shapeless interior of the body, the city structure that funnels and facilitates the flows of lives lived together. Marx literally brings the informational abstractions of aerial views, maps, and anatomical illustrations into his physical world by using plant material from his immediate environment as medium. The techniques that Marx develops to do this are at once practical, poetic and conceptual strategies.

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