Home and the World: Architectural Sculpture by Two Contemporary African Artists gazes at African heritage and looks into the future through the art of two contemporary artists, Aboudramane from Ivory Coast and Bodys Isek Kingelez from the Democratic Republic of Congo. In their different ways, both artists' sculptures comment upon the present and future of Africa's artistic enterprise. Aboudramane is concerned with loss, and gives us the ever-changing memory of a traditional past already modified by his visions of other architecture. His uninhabited buildings look lived in, but by people who have gone and may never come back. Kingelez's resolutely modern buildings have banished every trace of traditional African architecture and life. But they are also empty perhaps because the people who would know how to use them have not yet been born.

Exhibition catalogue, first in the series, focus on African art on smaller topics, with contributions: Culture Continuity and Cultural Authenticity by Ismail Serageldin, Home is Where the Art Is by Celeste Olalquiaga, Aboudramane, Magician of Memory and My Roots Are in Art: An Interview with Aboudramane by Jean-Louis Pinte, Bodys Isek Kingelez - "Extreme Maquettes" by Jean-Marc Patras. Catalogues for both artists by David Frankel.

Published and distributed by The Museum for African Art and Prestel, Munich, May 1993. 96 pp.

Paper: ISBN 3-7913-1326-6. LCCN: 93-78246.