Category: Senegal

• El Hadji Sy’s ‘alchemy of assemblages’ at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt

  

  Earlier this month I went to Germany to undertake gallery-based research at the Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) in Frankfurt and spent time reviewing the temporary exhibition, El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics (5 March-10 October, 2015). This detailed retrospective about the life and work of internationally renowned Senegalese artist-curator and activist El Hadji Sy…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  June 17, 2015

  Africa, Art, Art – Politics, Contemporary African Art, Contemporary Art, Curating, Exhibition Review, Exhibitions, Germany, Museums, Performance Art, Senegal

  abstract art, Clementine Deliss, El Hadji Sy, Frankfurt, Laboratoire Agit’Art, Weltkulturen Museum

• Senghor’s Contribution to the Making of Dakar as an Art World City

  The establishment of Dakar as a global centre for modern and contemporary arts on the African continent can be traced back to Senegal’s independence in 1960 and the particular interventions of Senegal’s first president Léopold Sédar Senghor. By setting up a number of major national art institutions, and hosting large-scale international arts events in the capital city…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  August 20, 2014

  Africa, Art, Contemporary African Art, Contemporary Art, Senegal

  Biennale/Biennial, Big Key, Dak’Art, El Hadji Sy, Graffiti, Iba N’Diaye, Issa Samb, Laboratoire Agit’Art, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Négritude, Ousmane Sembène, Sét/Sétal, Soly Cissé