Tag: Pompidou

• Installation Art by Otobong Nkanga (on display in Oxford, UK, until November 2016)

  

  The angular and multi-layered, architectural installation “Tsumeb Fragments” (2015) by Nigerian contemporary artist Otobong Nkanga is on display at Modern Art Oxford as part of the exhibition “KALEIDOSCOPE: It’s Me to the World” (20 August – 17 November 2016). Like many works from Nkanga’s portfolio, Tsumeb Fragments addresses the themes of landscape, memory and the legacies of colonialism […]

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 9, 2016

  African Diaspora, Art – Politics, Contemporary African Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Review, Geography-Art Engagement, Nigeria, Photography, United Kingdom, Visual Analysis

  abstract art, Berlin Biennial 2014, Cultural memory, Feminist art, Gender, Identity, International art, Landscape, Memory, Modern Art Oxford, Nature, Otobong Nkanga, Pompidou

• Exploring ‘othering’ through the work of Congolese pop artist Chéri Samba

  

  The triptych, Quel Avenir Pour Notre Art? [What Future for Our Art?] (1997) by Congolese pop artist Chéri Samba (b. 1956) presents visual and textual representations of three significant stages in the artist’s life and career. Painted in acrylics in Samba’s characteristic comic strip style he combines self-portraiture, symbolic imagery and textual narratives to pose […]

  Carol Ann Dixon

  August 21, 2014

  Africa, Congo (Democratic Republic), Contemporary African Art, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions, Visual Analysis

  Chéri Samba, Magiciens de la Terre, Pablo Picasso, Pompidou, Pop Art, Primitivism