Category: London
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Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers
Zak Ové’s curation of the group exhibition Get Up, Stand Up Now (Somerset House, London, 12 June – 15 September 2019) foregrounds and celebrates the work of more than 100 artists from Africa, the Caribbean region, the African Diaspora in Britain and throughout the wider world who have made significant contributions to the UK’s cultural…
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Review of the 2018 edition of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London
The sixth London edition of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair took place at Somerset House, 4-7 October 2018. Curated by its founding director Touria El Glaoui the event featured 43 international galleries showcasing the work of 130 established and emerging contemporary artists from continental Africa and the global African diaspora. In keeping with previous…
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Exhibition Review – ‘Kehinde Wiley: In Search of the Miraculous’
‘In Search of the Miraculous’ is the second exhibition by Kehinde Wiley to be shown at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London (24 November 2017 – 27 January 2018). Displayed in three rooms, this series of nine new paintings and a three-channel artist’s film illustrate moments in the lives of young Haitian fishermen presented against a…
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Picturing Diversity – The Power of Portraiture
I am seldom more satisfied with a gallery visit than on the occasions when you walk into an exhibition space intending to view one thing, and then stumble on something quite unexpected that turns out to be far more interesting than the artwork or display you originally planned to see. The 3rd August 2017 turned…
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Reflections on a “Festival for the World” and Alpha Diagne’s “Blue House” at the Southbank in London
For the past four years the Southbank Centre in London has hosted an event called “Africa Utopia.” Typically, this diverse programme of talks, marketplace activities, displays, fashion shows and other artistic happenings takes place over the course of a weekend in early autumn and is marketed as one of the Southbank’s “Festivals for the World” series. The artistic and…
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