La Fondation Louis Vuitton, Art/Afrique: Le Nouvel Atelier
site of the fondation is near the childhood playground of Proust
another Frank Gehry museum > this one’s more amenable to art than the Guggenheim in Bilbao, however not as spectacular // rooftop terraces are strange in that they deny a view of Paris, excepting the canopy of the surrounding gardens // his sketches are great
William Kentridge > Other Faces, saw this at QUT a few years ago alongside his working drawings // Notes Towards a Model Opera > three-channel video // frenetic mix of music, percussion, 1950s swing and , singing and spoken word // pages from Journal Officual (French Republic, Le Commune), notebooks, maps of China Chinese ideograms > over which are laid videos of black African men and women dancing, carrying slogans (woman is dancing in ballet flats, an inky bird is animated and changes from a Chinese character to a flapping bird)
Text as an abstraction Meleko Mokgosi > “The adjacent text is written in Setswana – a language of South Africa and Votswana. Deliberately left untranslated, it is only accessible to speakers of this language and can be considered an abstraction for others.” // bad paintings, though...
Kemang Wa Lehulere > mural on wall, chalk on black paint > grad show?