Contemporary African Art

This is (going to be) an individual collection of mostly contemporary art, photography, fashion etc. made by artists of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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Recent Histories

"Recent Histories" unites the perspectives of fourteen artists of African decent, who investigate social identity, questions of belonging, and an array of sociopolitical concerns. Providing a point of entry to engage critically with current practices and the frameworks of contemporary African photography and video art, "Recent Histories" features an introduction by the curators, seven essays by renowned critics and scholars, as well as statements from and conversations with each individual artist.

(Published by The Walther Collection/Steidl)

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Looking at New Generations of African Photographers

A new generation of African artists, inspired by their predecessors and helped by technology, has been redefining how Africans look at themselves.

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Okwui Enwezor and Artur Walther on the Recent Histories of African Photography | Contemporary And

Okwui Enwezor’s groundbreaking 2006 exhibition Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography redefined the field of contemporary African art. More than ...

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Don’t miss the upcoming exhibition Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art by The Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm, Germany. The show runs from May 7 - November 19, 2017.

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FIDAK exhibition centre, Dakar, Senegal. Designed by French architects Jean Francois Lamoureux and Jean-Louis Marin.

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La Pyramide, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Designed by Italian architect Rinaldo Olivieri.

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Ibrahim El-Salahi  Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams I 1961–5

Tate

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Book : African modernism

“The Architecture of Independence. Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia - Never before has modern architecture in Africa been studied and presented so comprehensively and thoroughly: a groundbreaking study, lavishly illustrated.”

Edited by Manuel Herz with Ingrid Schröder, Hans Focketyn, Julia Jamrozik. Photographs by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster.

More informations

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Thabiso Sekgala (1981-2014), Church, Jabal Webdin, Running Amman series, 2013. Courtesy of Goodman Gallery.

I guess, Thabiso Sekgala will always be one of my favourite photographers.

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Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, from South Africa and the UK respectively, were awarded the 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for their publication Ponte City on Thursday.. 

➢ itsnicethat.com/articles/subotzky-waterhouse ➢ thephotographersgallery.org.uk/deutsche-b-rse-prize-2015

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A giant paper boat? Art’s response to migrant drownings should be way more aggressive

Read The Guardian‘s article on Vik Muniz’s floating installation Lampedusa - a 45 feet paper boat that will precariously sail the canals, alongside yachts, gondolas, and vaporettos.

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El Anatsui Wins Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

El Anatsui (b. 1944), Fresh and Fading Memories, 2007.

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Thabiso Sekgala (1981-2014). A Home, Afrikanische Strasse, Berlin, 2014. Courtesy of The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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Thabiso Sekgala (1981-2014). Gokitima Gophala ke kgosepela, Bulawayo, 2013. Courtesy of The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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Pieter Hugo (*1976), Inside Arcadia Place old-age home, Observatory, from the series Kin, 2013.

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Today's post deals with literature for a change. I just came across this nice podcast featuring Abdilatif Abdalla who happend to be my Swahili teacher during my studies a few years back.

Abdilatif Abdalla is the best-known Swahili poet and independent Kenya’s first political prisoner. He discusses poetry as a political instrument and as an academic field; publication prospects for African poets; and how poetry enabled him to survive three years of solitary confinement, after which he spent 22 years in exile. The interview ends with Abdalla reciting his poem “Siwati” (“I Will Never Abandon My Convictions”).

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A portrait story of the members of the SAPE from Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. by Francesco Giusti.

A sub culture in the Congo of men who dress in brightly coloured tailored suits and expensive shoes and who demonstrate impeccable manners and gentlemanly conduct.

The members of the SAPE take a touch of glamour into their humble environment with their refined style and faultless clothes.  Everyone has his own repertory of gestures, marking him from all the others. Elegance is not the only important character. First of all, in fact, a true member of the SAPE is a gentleman and a pacifist. Every week-end the members of the SAPE, with their eccentric and amusing nicknames, gather in bars and fashionable dancing halls and parade in the streets among amused children and applauses of the passers-by. These extemporized and spontaneous parades are the expression of a urban culture looking for new reference parameters and codes such as no-violence and elegance. They reflect the wish of young people in particular not to be left apart by society. source

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Like I feel them on another level I will try to achieve this style, like I need to be an example of this beautiful legacy

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La société des ambianceurs et des personnes élégantes.