Zaterdag 13 Juli 2013

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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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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El Salahi’s body of work is not bound within one style nor is it constrained by the early parameters of Sudanese aesthetic practices. His paintings combine a critical understanding of western art principles with references to Sudanese and Islamic art forms; his trademark linear style remains a preeminent unifying device expressing the intuitive merging of Islamic spirituality with critical social consciousness.

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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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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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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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Hillie de Rooij stelt zich de vraag hoe stereotiep en clichématig ons beeld van Afrika is, en hoe dit beeld tot stand komt. Ze onderzocht hoe Afrika verbeeld wordt in het westen en gebruikte dit onderzoek om Afrika opnieuw te construeren in het project Myopia. Het werk van De Rooij laat ons nadenken over representatie en confronteert on met onze eigen blik. Onderdeel van Digging Till The Sun Goes Down - eindexamenexpositie van vijf fotografiestudenten van AKV | St. Joost.

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In de derde editie van de inmiddels befaamde tweejaarlijkse beeldenroute in Amsterdam-Zuid spelen Afrikaanse kunstenaars een grote rol:  Kader Attia (Algerije), Romuald Hazoumè en Dominique Zinkpe (Benin), Mickaël Bethe-Selassié (Ethiopië), Kofi Setordji, El Anatsui en Atta Kwami (Ghana), Jems Robert Koko Bi (Ivoorkust), Pascale Marthine Tayou (Kameroen), Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali), Sokari Douglas Camp (Nigeria), Oumou Sy (Senegal)

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Net voor de zomer haalt SANAA met deze kunstenaars de zomer in huis. Wuivende bomen in een groen bos waar de tijd langzaam verstrijkt - de video Entre van Frans van Lent vult op groot beeld de ruimte in SANAA. Andrea Freckmann's kleurrijke schilderijen zijn een bizar spel met de ruimte waar mensen en objecten samen in wonen. De heldere geometrische vormen van Esther Mahlangu (ZA) brengen de frisse beeldtaal van Ndebele binnen. De sculpturen van Adriaan de Villiers (ZA) zijn verwaaide bomen gestold in aardewerk die nu bij SANAA de etalage vullen.

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Body of works created by Sultana Haukim during her residency at the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam. Far from being a feminist Sultana Haukim investigates situations of women in our modern world, as an artist who herself bears those scars of being a woman. Haukim presents mannequins as a metaphor of the female body that is seen as an object to please, lifeless and dumb.

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Johannesburg is a megapolis with a population of more than 6 million. It is heterogeneous, composed of trendy areas, residential neighborhoods, townships… A productive artistic community has developed there, with a number of photographers as well as painters, sculptors, performing artists and video-artists. This exhibition looks at the art scene in a city where history has been on the march since the abolition of apartheid and the first democratic elections in 1994.

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Exhibition comprises works that he made for the recent Benin Biennale as well as an installation titled La Mode en Miniature. The latter takes the form of a shop of babies' and children's clothes, made in Cotonou, Benin, and displayed on painted dummies, also from Cotonou. At first glance, the installation appears childlike and sweet, yet a closer look reveals that the embroidered texts on the colourful clothes are violent, disturbing and disconcerting words and phrases, a reminder of children's vulnerability to certain phenomena in our society.

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Comprising a series of sculptures, two-dimensional works and an installation, the exhibition explores the artist's sensory engagement with natural phenomena - light, shadow, form and gravity. Edmunds explores these ideas in his signature techniques of cut-out, geometric patterns, weaving and linocut, and revisits familiar objects such as weathered stones and skateboard wheels.

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Group exhibition of photographic works by ten Nigerian artists who are among a new generation of African photographers that explore unique visions, strong emotional and aesthetic perspectives to tell their own stories and challenge assumptions about the African continent. Each of the artists is widely traveled and well exposed to Western art modernism both by training and contact. Each represents a resonant voice, one that achieves it's own distinction and clarity amidst changing realities.

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The Benin artist Meschac Gaba first conceived the Museum of Contemporary African Art during his 1996–7 residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. He describes finding ‘another reality’ when visiting museums in Europe, a reality in which he could not imagine how the art he wanted to create could be integrated: ‘I needed a space for my work, because this did not exist.’

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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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