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In a 35-year career celebrated at MoMA this fall, the artist has concerned himself with “the poetry of looking,” blurring the line between p

'What Tillmans called “the whole earthquakes of 2016” had given him a sense of “the fragility of what is considered unkaputtbar,” he said, using the German word for “unbreakable.” “Civil rights have to be defended, and democracy has to be defended. I was always aware of that,” he said. “In recent years, it’s become a superstrong awareness.”

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In its first pandemic-era edition, the Dakar Biennale, Africa’s biggest art gathering, is uneven, hectic — and full of possibility.

"The market remains a distorting lens. Foreign collectors of African contemporary art are currently obsessed with the current trend of figurative painting and Black portraiture, notably from Ghana, but for many here the work fails to impress. African contemporary art museums, whose acquisitions might send different value signals, are still desperately rare.

Seen from the continent, the United States and Europe these days seem out of ideas, stuck in social crises and democratic decline. Lectures on “good governance” have lost their force. For renewed African artistic visions of society, community and ecology, the field has rarely been this open. “We have to write our own histories of contemporary art,” Obolo said. “We can’t miss the boat this time.”

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'Guest on Earth' - GmbH SS21 P1

'Seasons of Migration to the North' - GmbH SS21 P2 - A Film by Lars Laumann with Eddie Esmail

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‘The Battery That Flies’ - via NYT

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“I needed to create a space that was severe and avoided any kind of sentimentality or attachments, a blank slate,” he says, “to completely obliterate [extraneous noise], to concentrate on listening to what I really want. Living in clutter and chaos and things that are half done or that are half-hearted, I think, can allow you to be a little bit too relaxed. I can’t be relaxed. After you’ve showered and brushed your teeth in a marble cube, you’re going to aspire to something a little higher. You’re going to attempt something more extreme. So that’s what I was doing. I was creating an environment for myself that would force me to demand more and demand something better. And I have to be at my very, very, best.” Via

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