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27 Apr. 2010
Africa. More information on Contemporary African Art since 1980, the authors Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, and the lecture Okwui Enwezor held in Amsterdam.
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27 Apr. 2010
Africa. Ghada Amer, another work by El Anatsui, Yto Barrada, Julie Mehretu, a much younger artist. Then an older and much more established artist, much more frequently part of the public discussion, Georges Adéagbo, again talking about this tension between tradition and modernity, the archives of tradition if you will (1). Bodo. Ingrid Mwangi, a German-Kenyan artist (2).  Read more

27 Apr. 2010
The nineties for us were really marked by this massive exodus of intellectuals and artists, migration. This search for new frontiers, for new places of comfort, of production, of protection, exile and all of that.
This period also marks the articulation of the spaces of the city, if you will.

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27 Apr. 2010
Africa. Why did we take 1980 as the point of departure? 1980 for us is a frame of reference and I will give you a very short synopsis for its reasons. Most general histories of contemporary African art begin from the fifties and the sixties.
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27 Apr. 2010
Africa. In this sense, there are two distinct structures of analysis, of articulation regarding the last thirty years that we engage. And this is the discursive argument, or the intellectual argument, between the museum of ethnography and the museum of art.
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27 Apr. 2010
Africa. One immediate point this project seeks to reaffirm lies in its title. It suggests with specificity, that there exists an artistic landscape of some coherence, and of discernible durability, which justifies the label, as to be applied to the works of artists grouped under the various thematic rubrics that inform the sections of the book.
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