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La Galerie Africaine - a nomadic gallery run by the talented gallerist Aude Minart - moves again to Dakar to be part of Dakar Off during Dak'Art Biennale 2018 with a show named "Africa no limits". Minart is going to Dakar in the next few days to set up the exhibition which includes a selection of artists working with drawing, painting, photography and sculpture. For those in Dakar I definitely suggest to attend the cocktail on May 3rd at 6pm and the vernissage on May 6th at 6pm. I will give you more details next week together with a quick interview with Ms Minart. Stay tuned! For press release please ask:  audeminart@hotmail.com https://www.lagalerieafricaine.com/

  --> Laboratorio in gallery: “Memoires - Archive / Works of Sala 1” presents "Money Talks" by César Baracca. An archive preserves the past, its traces and memories lie within a repository of human knowledge it is also a dynamic place for critical engagement and creative invention. It also offers the ability to create new ideas and different interpretations in the multifaceted world of art. This is what gallery Sala 1 intends to propose through this new project “Laboratorio: Memoires - Archive / Works of Sala 1”: a space in which to reflect and create alternative visions, researched through photographs, documents and texts. Under the supervision of Mary Angela Schroth (Director of Sala 1), an international team of young historians investigates, re-organizes, photographs and analyses the collection of the gallery, then re-interprets new ways of understanding some of the selected works. The contemporary artists participating in the Laboratorio are: Ed...

EDGE OF ARABIA Rhizoma (Generation in Waiting) 30 May–24 September 2013 Collateral Event of the  55th Venice Biennale Magazzini del Sale No. 262 Dorsoduro Fondamenta delle Zattere Venice (ACTV stop: Line 1, Salute) Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm Admission free www.edgeofarabia.com Rhizome :  A plant stem that grows horizontally under or along the ground and often sends out roots and shoots. New plants develop from the shoots. Ginger, iris, and violets have rhizomes. Also called   rootstock ( Greek   rhiz ma ,   mass of roots , from   rhizoun ,   to cause to take root , from   rhiza ,   root ; see   wr d-   in Indo-European roots). Curated by London-based curator Sara Raza and Saudi-based poet, artist and curator Ashraf Fayadh,  Rhizoma (Generation in Waiting)  refers to the newcoming artists in the Saudi Arabia art scene who are challenging the force of gravity with their projects. Sara Raza explains:...

image courtesy of the gallery Yinka Shonibare MBE 's new solo show is opening next month at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London. Title: POP! The show sounds really promising with works inspired by Andy Warhol's series 'Camouflage' and Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper'. POP! is a reflection on some of the causes of the current economic crisis like corruption, excess and debauchery. Shonibare's figures are headless (in reference to executions during the French Revolution, but it is also a recurring motif in his work to avoid any association of race). The artist's trademark is the use of the beautiful wax batik fabric. These fabrics are well recognisable as traditional from Africa but they were actually produced by the Dutch and sold to the colonies in West Africa. Shonibare's figure wears XVIII century inspired outifits made out of this printed fabric. A not-to-be missed show. Private View 15 March 2013, 6-8pm Exhibition: 16 March...

"Il Delta dei Veleni", oil exploitation in Nigeria. A photo exhibition and a documentary by Luca Tommasini Only few days left to visit the photo exhibition by Luca Tommasini "Il Delta dei Veleni" at WSP Photography in San Paolo area, in Rome. I visited the exhibition the day of the opening, Wednesday 9th of May.  The exhibition was completed by the projection of the documentary "Oil for nothing" by Tommasini (produced by CRBM) and a talk with Godwin Uyi Ojo , Director and co-founder of Environmental Rights Action,  Elena Gerebizza  e  Luca Manes  di  CRBM . © Luca Tommasini – Il delta dei veleni As the title might suggest the exhibition and documentary are centred on the responsibilities of national and international oil companies in the petrol exploitation on the Niger Delta in Nigeria.   The opening day was a special occasion to hear stories from Godwin Uyi Ojo who saw his land changing. The pollution ...

Add caption Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, "Lumumba," 2010. Aluminium print, 125x80cm. Courtesy the artist. United States of Africa an exhibition by artist Mansour Ciss Kanakassy @   Raw Material Company , center for art, knowledge and society (Dakar, Senegal). September 21 – December 31, 2011

POLAROID IMPOSSIBLE THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION exhibition 17.06.2011 - 21.08.2011 On Friday 17th of June an important collection of polaroids opened in Vienna. The photo museum WestLicht is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a show on instant photography and t he amazing book "From Polaroid to Impossible / Masterpieces of Instant Photography - The WestLicht Collection" has been published by Hatje Cantz for the exhibition. Straight after the miracle accomplished by Impossible company to bring back to life the polaroid films - and the acquisition of the wide Polaroid collection by WestLicht last March - we can now celebrate with them our love for polaroids pictures in Vienna. I am sure that the polaroid inventor Edwin Herbert Land, would be happy to see these beautiful works, more than 350 on display, by so many different international artists. Andy Warhol, Ansel Adams, Helmut Newton and Oliviero Toscani t o name a few. The exhibition will be ope...

LE NOTE BLU DELL’UNIVERSO testo di Alessandra Migani  Perché là dov'è il tuo tesoro, sarà anche il tuo cuore. La lucerna del corpo è l'occhio; se dunque il tuo occhio è chiaro, tutto il tuo corpo sarà nella luce; ma se il tuo occhio è malato, tutto il tuo corpo sarà tenebroso. Se dunque la luce che è in te è tenebra, quanto grande sarà la tenebra!    Vangelo secondo Matteo   Quanto di noi riusciamo a rivelare a noi stessi e al mondo? Quanto spesso ci ritroviamo ad indossare delle maschere senza neppure accorgercene? Alcuni di questi interrogativi si affacciano sicuramente nei pensieri di Hadeel Azeez mentre dipinge. La voglia di svelare i moti personali dell’animo si tramuta in arte, si rivolge verso una tela bianca, che poco a poco prende forma e colore. Rivelazioni in blu , la prima personale dell’artista a Roma, offre allo spettatore un’esperienza di lettura introspettiva molto intima. Gli otto dipinti ad olio e le due maschere che scendono dal ...