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Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora features artists who were born in Africa and now live and work in Western countries including France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United States of America.
This by invitation-only exhibition presents new and recent works that focus on the interplay between the artists' African backgrounds and their new environments. The catalogue includes investigations into the global Diaspora of African artists; a history of contemporary African artists participating in major Biennials and other international exhibitions; and the social and political contexts of African artists in the Western world, written by the artists themselves, curators, and cultural critics. It highlights the talent and stories of established artists, artists known in the African art community but perhaps not to a broader public, and introduces a new generation of emerging artists.
The artists are Fernando Alvim, Ghada Amer, Oladélé Bamgboye, Allan deSouza, Kendell Geers, Moshekwa Langa, Hassan Musa, N'Dilo Mutima, Wangechi Mutu, Ingrid Mwangi, Yinka Shonibare, and Zineb Sidera.
Exhibition catalogue edited by Laurie Ann Farrell with foreword by Sue Williamson, Introduction by Laurie Ann Farrell and contributions: Oladélé Bamgboye Interviewed by Valentijn Byvanck, Name Calling by Allan deSouza, N'Dilo Mutima: Between Luanda and Lisbon, Between the Mask and Television by José António B. Fernandes Dias, Of Hedonism, Masquerade, Carnivalesque and Power: The Art of Yinka Shonibare by Okwui Enwezor, Negotiating the Taxonomy of Contemporary African Art -- Production, Exhibition, Commodification and Perverse Anthropology: The Photomontage of Wangechi Mutu by Lauri Firstenberg, Hassan Musa's ArtAfricanism: The Artist as a Critic by Salah Hassan, Moshekwa Langa in Conversation by Kobena Mercer, Seeing is (not necessarily) Believing by Steven Nelson, Mozart and Me by Simon Njami, Letters of Transit by Edith-Marie Pasquier, The Diaspora as Object by John Peffer, A TerroRealist in the House of Love by Jéreme Sans.
Published and distributed by the Museum for African Art, New York, and Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent. November 2003. 184 pp.
Cloth: ISBN 90-5349-443-X. Paper: ISBN 0-945802-35-8. LCCN 2003112901.
This by invitation-only exhibition presents new and recent works that focus on the interplay between the artists' African backgrounds and their new environments. The catalogue includes investigations into the global Diaspora of African artists; a history of contemporary African artists participating in major Biennials and other international exhibitions; and the social and political contexts of African artists in the Western world, written by the artists themselves, curators, and cultural critics. It highlights the talent and stories of established artists, artists known in the African art community but perhaps not to a broader public, and introduces a new generation of emerging artists.
The artists are Fernando Alvim, Ghada Amer, Oladélé Bamgboye, Allan deSouza, Kendell Geers, Moshekwa Langa, Hassan Musa, N'Dilo Mutima, Wangechi Mutu, Ingrid Mwangi, Yinka Shonibare, and Zineb Sidera.
Exhibition catalogue edited by Laurie Ann Farrell with foreword by Sue Williamson, Introduction by Laurie Ann Farrell and contributions: Oladélé Bamgboye Interviewed by Valentijn Byvanck, Name Calling by Allan deSouza, N'Dilo Mutima: Between Luanda and Lisbon, Between the Mask and Television by José António B. Fernandes Dias, Of Hedonism, Masquerade, Carnivalesque and Power: The Art of Yinka Shonibare by Okwui Enwezor, Negotiating the Taxonomy of Contemporary African Art -- Production, Exhibition, Commodification and Perverse Anthropology: The Photomontage of Wangechi Mutu by Lauri Firstenberg, Hassan Musa's ArtAfricanism: The Artist as a Critic by Salah Hassan, Moshekwa Langa in Conversation by Kobena Mercer, Seeing is (not necessarily) Believing by Steven Nelson, Mozart and Me by Simon Njami, Letters of Transit by Edith-Marie Pasquier, The Diaspora as Object by John Peffer, A TerroRealist in the House of Love by Jéreme Sans.
Published and distributed by the Museum for African Art, New York, and Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, Gent. November 2003. 184 pp.
Cloth: ISBN 90-5349-443-X. Paper: ISBN 0-945802-35-8. LCCN 2003112901.
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