Zaterdag 11 Mei 2013

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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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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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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Female Power is een tentoonstelling vol vrouwelijke kracht en macht. Van keramische borstvormen en een installatie met gevlochten harnassen tot foto’s van legendarische Japanse vissersvrouwen: steeds meer hedendaagse kunstenaressen creëren nieuwe vrouwbeelden. Hun werk wordt gecombineerd met dat van kunstenaressen die in de jaren ’70 en ’80 van de vorige eeuw met hun positieve vrouwbeelden hebben bijgedragen aan de ‘empowerment’ van vrouwen. Met uit Afrika Nandipha Mntambo (1982 SZ), Tsholofelo Monare (1986 ZA)

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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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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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It's not every day that a housewife looks around her kitchen and sees her utensils as objects of art. But Usha Seejarim is no ordinary housewife. The artist from Bethal, a small town in Mpumalanga, says that "as a home-maker/housewife/mother of two, and an artist", she is fascinated by her everyday chores. When she is in the kitchen, her spoons, forks, knives and plates become art objects. In her latest exhibition, Seejarim takes a closer look at the places and the objects in her immediate surrounds, and the roles she assumes when she is around these objects.

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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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One day I'm Gonna make it. Dromen over hoe je leven er over een paar jaar uit ziet, dat kent iedereen wel; een mooi huis, een liefhebbende partner, een goed inkomen, een gezin, een goede baan. Of wellicht wonen in het buitenland, op avontuur door de wereld en je talenten ontwikkelen. Wie zal het zeggen? Wat heb je nodig om die dromen te verwezenlijken? Welke risico’s komen daar bij kijken? In hoeverre zijn die dromen te rijmen met de werkelijkheid?

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Explores the ways in which contemporary artists based in South Africa and China engage with new paths of movement, with economic and cultural shifts, and with the rise of new regimes, new leaders and new social and urban spaces. The exhibition includes works in diverse media by internationally acclaimed Chinese artists, Wu Junyong, Chen Qiulin, Maleonn and Qin Ga  and local artists Lebogang Rasethaba, Gerald Machona, Michael MacGarry and James Webb.

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Kendell Geers, born in 1968 in South Africa, uses various media such as installation, drawing, video, performance, and photography. His life and work can be divided into two decade-long periods whose trajectories and developments are explored in this exhibition. The first political phase runs from 1988 to 2000, during which time the artist, a white South African, explored the moral and ethical contradictions of the apartheid system through his practice. Initiated by his move to Brussels in 2000, his later European period is now characterized by a more poetic aesthetic. Here, Geers transferred his incendiary practice into a postcolonial and increasingly global context, suggesting more universal themes like terrorism, spirituality, and mortality.

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Musa is one of the most important contemporary artists of both Arabic and African heritage. Musa’s work approaches Western civilization as subject matter by referring to its iconography, thus questioning North/South relations and the dialogue between cultures. Always connected to the contemporary actuality, his works express at the same time his dual African and Oriental identity. This “identity” is also reflected by Musa’s role as an acclaimed calligrapher.

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The Land Act of 1913, and associated legislation that was to follow during the apartheid period, had a devastating effect on the country and on the lives of millions of black South Africans. This photographic exhibition gives visitors the opportunity to follow a century-long journey into the history of the land, into land struggles, forced labour and child labour, removals, and last ditch stands. Historical photographic material gleaned from archives is exhibited alongside modern and contemporary work in new ways to explore the romance with and realities of the land, both in the past and the present.

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In this show the artist continues his exploration both of portraiture and his passion for oil as a painterly medium. Contrary to the tradition of verisimilitude, for Hewett the portrait is not about capturing an external likeness of a subject; but rather as a portal to an inner journey of self-exploration. Hewett does not use sitters or models in an effort to produce a realistic depiction. Although photographs constitute his starting point , he relies principally on the free-flowing processes of memory and creative imagination. His portraits encapsulate the truism: that the subject matter of all art is, ultimately, the self.

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Through a varied series of works and actions created and documented over several years, Belinda Blignaut has been processing issues around social constraint and transformation, with the body at the centre of all; an emotional response to a political world. Adapting available materials and processing immediate surroundings, she hopes to translate the ways we cope. Her work is often body canvas, a quiet visceral investigation into violence through action and documentation. Surfacing in blown is a desire to resist the effects of institutionalized culture and the constructs of sophistication we have become - how good we are at concealing messiness, the natural body, and intuition.

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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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The 4th festival edition. It has been very satisfying to see that HAFF has earned its place in Finland’s festival calendar and that there is a sizeable audience of people interested in what is really going on in Africa. The theme for this year´s festival is Youth & power. What does it mean to be a young African? What challenges do young people face as they claim their place in society? What do they dream about, demand and love? Bursting with youthful energy and angst, HAFF gives unique viewpoints into life on the continent and in the African diaspora.

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Thabiso Phokompe (born in South Africa) is an artist currently creating work that reflects his life as a contemporary African artist living in New York City. Drawing on continual themes of bringing polar opposites together, his recent works comment on the experience of living in the African Diaspora. Working between paintings and sculptures, Phokompe incorporates natural fibers, wood and soil as materials that metaphorically connect him to his ancestral home in Africa. These materials are combined with industrial substances such as: oxides, color pigment or cement, plastic sacks, nails, bottle caps, staples and acrylic paints.

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DJ DNA (voormalig Urban Dance Squad) reisde voor De Stem van West naar Kaapstad, Zuid-Afrika. De Stem van West is een muzikale mix van Kwaito, Rap, Rijmklets, Hiphop Cross-over en Reggae. Bijeengebracht door DJ DNA in samenwerking met de bekende rappers PAX en ReaZun, vijf muzikanten van het Kyteman Orchestra en uit Zuid Afrika: PinKi and DaBruin, Daddy Spencer, Crosby Bolani, Teba Shumba, EJ von Lyrik en Hemel Besem. De korte tour vaart langs verscheidene Bevrijdingsfestivals, Grounds (Rotterdam, 9 mei), Sugar Factory (Amsterdam, 10 mei) en Simplon (Groningen, 11 mei). Verwacht een explosieve dansavond!

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The series of paintings on this exhibition derive from a reflection on the events at Marikana of 16 August 2012. A strike at a Lonmin owned platinum mine in the Marikana area close to Rustenburg lead to a series of violent confrontations between police, mine security officials, trade union leaders and miners in which around 47 miners were killed and an unknown number injured. The paintings are partially abstracted landscapes derived from media images and my own visits to the site where the massacre happened.These works are an attempt, within the possibilities of painting, to find a way of responding to, and reflecting on, these events and the place in which they occurred.

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Award-winning photographer Jodi Bieber explores the twilight that she experienced in the decade following the advent of democracy in South Africa. The show is a selection of work from 1993 to 2004, primarily revealing Bieber’s more rarely shown independent series, as well as some of her earlier work as a press photographer.

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Teresa is een alleenstaande, middelbare Oostenrijkse huisvrouw die op strandvakantie naar Kenia gaat. Of ze wist wat ze daar zou aantreffen laat de film in het midden, maar voor ze het weet is Teresa omringd door 'beach boys'. Die haar spulletjes proberen te verkopen, excursies, en bovenal zichzelf. De kracht van Paradies: Liebe is dat Seidl geen daders of slachtoffers aanwijst. Teresa gebruikt de 'beach boys' en die gebruiken op hun beurt Teresa. In Seidls universum is iedereen slachtoffer én dader. Eerste in de Paradies-trilogie. Andere delen: Glaube en Hoffnung.

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In een dorpje in Afrika vertelt een oude grootvader een reeks nieuwe verhalen over de held Kirikou. Hij heeft nog veel mooie herinneringen uit zijn kindertijd, zoals de momenten waarop Kirikou de mannen en de vrouwen van zijn dorp hielp. Zo vertelt de oude grootvader ons hoe Kirikou door zijn moed en intelligentie de forse vrouw te hulp schoot wiens dak was vernietigd door de boze heks Karaba. En over hoe Kirikou de mopperende dorpsoudste terugvond die verdwaald was op de savanne en over de Afrikaanse vertelster die bedreigd werd door de tovenares.

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In de meivakantie vinden in het Afrika Museum dagelijks vrolijke activiteiten plaats voor bezoekers van alle leeftijden. Zo maken kinderen in de workshop ‘Kunst om op te vreten’ zelf een eetbaar schilderij. Muziekdocent Ernest geeft bezoekers een introductie op Afrikaanse ritmes èn muziekinstrumenten. Verhalenverteller Sjoerd neemt z’n publiek mee naar de Afrikaanse dierenwereld. Kinderen maken met kokkin Daro zelf pindakaas en in de museumtour vertelt de rondleider bijzondere verhalen achter diverse museumobjecten. Zie de site voor details.

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Hodgkinson’s large-scale, enamel on aluminium paintings explore the relationship between chance and process within a structured environment. Strikingly graphic, these paintings use a pared-down but powerfully descriptive line against a monochromatic backdrop of intense colour. Hodgkinson transposes the qualities of chance, spontaneity & abbreviation found in observational line drawing directly into his painting. Creating, against the flat colour field, a line that is daring, elliptical, subtly textured, and at times surprisingly abstract.

At the end of Robert Hodgins’ long life, he found being ill “just too tedious!” and was frustrated at the fact that “ I cannot paint!” He was involved in The Great Human Drama, right to his last day. Possessed of a mischievous and curious eye with which he critically evaluated the doings of humankind; a lively wit, the sensitivity to include himself in his impressions of our species, and a healthy cynicism, Hodgins was above all the keenest observer of life one could meet. Painting, drawing and printing constantly taught him more about life and the process of producing images.

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Het is stoffig en hectisch in de Marokkaanse sloppenwijk Sidi Moumen, waar broers Yachine en Hamid opgroeien in een wereld van drugs en criminaliteit. IJzingwekkende film, waarin een kansarme gemeenschap broedplaats wordt van islamitisch fundamentalisme en extremisme. Ayouch baseerde de film op de terreuraanslagen van 16 mei 2003 in Casablanca. Regie: Nabil Ayouch. Jaar: 2012.

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Myriam Mihindou (Gabon, 1964/Frankrijk) met de fotoserie Dechoukaj en video en Isabel Ferrand  (Portugal, 1962/Nederland) met mixed media en video. Zij zijn beiden geïnspireerd door een leven tussen verschillende culturen. Mhindou laat foto’s zien uit de serie Dechoukaj, foto’s die een sacrale, transcedentale dimensie hebben. Ferrand  verbindt tegengestelde werelden- oorlog en vrede, mannelijk en vrouwelijk. In collages van papier en keramiek, sluiten soldaten de gelederen.

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De Arabische Lente die twee jaar geleden de ogen opende van de Arabische bevolking heeft ontegenzeglijk verandering teweeg gebracht. Aan de hand van recente, veelal nog niet eerder in Nederland vertoonde titels van zowel vermaarde als debuterende internationale makers met een Arabische achtergrond, biedt het programma een overzicht van de hedendaagse filmproductie uit landen als Algerije, Egypte, Marokko, en Tunesië. Het festival vindt plaats in Rialto (Amsterdam), Lantaren Venster (Rotterdam), Filmhuis Den Haag, Lumière (Maastricht), De Verkadefabriek (Den Bosch) en ’t Hoogt (Utrecht).

Vorm als verbinding in het werk van de deelnemende kunstenaars. Gezichten/gedaantes in vorm verbeeld, tussen figuratie en abstractie. Hans van der Ham (NL), sculpturen/schilderijen, Victor Ekpuk (Nigeria), schilderijen/tekeningen, Obinna Makata (Nigeria), werken op papier, Uche Uzorka (Nigeria), tekeningen.

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