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2 weeks ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Gameli Hamelo |Georgina Adam |Anny Shaw
The British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare was given carte blanche for his first major solo exhibition on the African continent. Safiotra [Hybridities] at the Fondation H in Antananarivo, Madagascar, will include several of Shonibare’s sculptures, such as Alien Woman on Flying Machine (2011) and Refugee Astronaut X (2024), as well as some of his lesser-known quilt works.
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1 month ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Gameli Hamelo
When the French president Emmanuel Macron called for the restitution of African artefacts by the West in 2017, his statement was viewed in the international media as groundbreaking. Those reports failed to acknowledge the decades of calls for restitution from Africans themselves and the work being done across the continent to capture and analyse information about heritage looted in the era of European colonialism.
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1 month ago |
observer.com | Gameli Hamelo
Gustavo Nazareno’s richly symbolic paintings investigate the African hand in Brazilian Baroque art. GABRIEL_VOLPIIn 2018, Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno left Minas Gerais for São Paulo because his aunt, a practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, “got an intuition [that] something was going to happen.” (Umbanda is based on the idea of possession by the spirits.
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1 month ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Gameli Hamelo |Chinma Johnson-Nwosu |Ayodeji Rotinwa |Anna Brady
The London-born and based artist Emma Prempeh hit a major career milestone in 2021, debuting in Africa with a solo show at ADA Contemporary Art Gallery in Accra, Ghana, her father’s homeland. The show was preceded by a month-long residency in the West African country. It was a decision “to connect with my heritage”, she tells The Art Newspaper.
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1 month ago |
observer.com | Gameli Hamelo
Nolan Oswald Dennis’ “overturns” at the Swiss Institute explores decolonization, Black liberation and Indigenous resistance. Photo by Daniel Perez. Courtesy the Swiss Institute“It feels like it came out of a shared community,” the Johannesburg-based South African artist Nolan Oswald Dennis tells Observer about making his U.S. institutional debut alongside London-based Swiss artist Deborah-Joyce Holman in separate exhibitions exploring Black identity.
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