Voyage au cœur du continent noir - Strasbourg, du 10 au 23 décembre 2005 - www.arts-primitifs.com

La galerie www.arts-primitifs.com bien connue des amateurs d'antiquités Africaines, propose en décembre, une très belle exposition de pièces rares, merveilles collectées par le commissaire de l'exposition : Mathieu Barth.

Un voyage dans le temps à ne pas manquer, pour (re) découvrir au travers de nombreux masques, statues, terres cuites et bronzes, un continent riche d’histoire et de culture.

Y seront présenté des pièces imposantes, telle que des costumes de danse Egungun Yoruba, des grands Calao du Poro, Sénufo ou Bambara, un cercueil Ghanéen, de nombreux objets de culte Vaudou, ainsi que de magnifiques et fragiles poteries d'origines diverses, etc......>>

Pedro Alderete (1961- 2005) - Spin Gallery

SPIN GALLERY will host a one night opening Tribute Art exhibition by Pedro Alderete (1961- 2005)

"Don't give up the Fight"
A retrospective
24 November 2005, 6-10pm
One night event only.

Special Performance by Chantal Aston accompanied by Sabor

Pedro Alderete (1961- 2005), a Cuban-Canadian artist, was living and working in Toronto. Born in Havana, Cuba, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy of the Arts, where his ideological learnings clashed with that of Castro’s socialist state. He came to Canada in 1989 and worked as a barber before being accepted with advanced standing at the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he graduated in 1996. While continuing his artistic practice after graduating, he worked in more than twenty productions as a scenic painter for the film industry in Toronto....>>

Nouvelles du Cameroun, Autour de Sony Labou Tansi

Hello
Youpie! On l'a fait not' café SLT autour du coffret "L'atelier de Sony Labou Tansi", y'avait du monde ! Des gens qui ne le connaissaient pas sont restés sur le cul. Le vecteur rap/ hip-hop est terriblement efficace, les gamins craquent sur les textes des poèmes. Et une idée a jailli: produire un Tibute to SLT, soit un ou deux CD.

C'était génial hier soir! T"aurait vu la salle...telle qu"apprêtée... Un superbe écrin. Nous étions installés parmi des tableaux, dont un de la Kouelany, ceux d'autres congolais peintres, et des affiches de SLT prêtées par le CCF....>>

Zwelethu Mthethwa at Andréhn-Schiptjenko - Art Agenda

It is a great pleasure for Andréhn-Schiptjenko to announce their first solo-show with South African artist Zwelethu Mthethwa. Mthethwa is considered to be, alongside with David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng, one of South Africa’s most recognised photographers to date.

Since the 1990’s photographic work by African photographers has come to the Western public’s attention. These photographers have established artistic initiatives that build their own critical operations and contribute to a process of reassessment of cultural practices often attributed only to the West. Moreover, their conceptual modes of photographic production present a critical alternative to the hypersaturation of documentary and photojournalistic images of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa....>>

Black Is A Color - A History of African American Art - Dis Voir - Books on contemporary culture

Black Is A Color - A History of African American Art proposes a new history of contemporary art through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today’s. At the same time an historical study and a critical analysis, this book depicts an America marked by its slavery past, in which African American contemporary artists have been able to build a singular and engaged body of work to protest against the cultural and political consequences of racial discrimination. They form an artistic identity which is created through forms of representation (painting, sculpture, photography, video and performance), where the place of the body, the urban space and memory is analyzed....>>