Tag: African art

• Afriques Capitales/Capital Africas: A Barthesian multiplicity of cities presented at La Villette in Paris

  

  The curatorial challenge Simon Njami set for himself when conceptualizing the exhibition “Afriques Capitales“[“Capital Africas”] was to provide a discursive, dialogical space where contemporary visual artists from continental Africa and the wider global African diaspora(s) could come together to “invent the city of all cities: a city that belongs to no one but in which everyone can find…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  May 28, 2017

  African Diaspora, Art, Cities, Exhibition Review, France, Geography, Geography-Art Engagement, Paris

  African art, La Villette, Simon Njami

• Reflections on the legacies of ‘Statues Also Die’ (Présence Africaine, 1953) re. the museums sector in France today

  

  Earlier this year an article by Tom Devriendt was posted to the online discussion forum ‘Africa is a Country’ to commemorate the life and work of French filmmaker Alain Resnais (1922-2014), who passed away on 1st March  (Devriendt, 2014). The central focus of this piece was to celebrate the achievements of Resnais and his co-director Chris Marker…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  August 27, 2014

  Art, Contemporary African Art, Contemporary Art, Curatorship, Exhibitions, Film, France, Museology, Museums, Paris

  Africa, Africa Remix, African art, Alain Resnais, Chéri Samba, Chris Marker, Ciprien Tokoudagba, Jean-Hubert Martin, Magiciens de la Terre, Négritude, Présence Africaine, Samuel Fosso, Simon Njami, Twins Seven Seven, William Fagg, Willie Bester, Yinka Shonibare