Revue Noire 12

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BLACK AFRICA /
MEDITERRANEAN AFRICA

 

Face to face artists from Black Africa / Mediterranean Africa 

Art portfolios : Farid Belkahia, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Kivuthi Mbuno, Gera, Cyprien Tokoudagba, Abdoulaye Konaté, Gouider Triki, Adel El Siwi, Rachid Koraïchi, Kacimi, Hammed Bouheddadj
photography
Literature

Design

  

 

Editor Jean Loup Pivin

Published in March 1994

68 pages 40x28cm 

In French and English

 

 

 

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EDITO

 

 

The Rose of the Gods

 

There will never be anything to unterstand. The slave, the warrior, the colonist, the hide stretched across drums, the strings of violins and coras, the Black man, the White man, the White-Black man, the Black-White man, the infinitude of the sea, the infinitude of the desert. An inhabited border. A filter composed of peoples who pass on values, poems, songs, salt and gold, the messengers of a god, the messengers of gods, the blood of wars. The color of blood that is always the same, accentless. raceless, flowing from vein to or spilling out on the sand and on the red, brown or beige soil.

 

Mourning, love, hate, fascination, repulsion, doubt, separated by the desert, the two Africas have not met up with each other for a long time. Today, however, perhaps once again in those rare individuals who do not believe in an absolute, exclusive truth, but who know that the South houses the compass card which indicates other truths now so dispersed that they can be gathered only for oneself. The path of truth is in the South, the truth is in the North. Who is the surest of himself ? He who has the truth or he who knows that truth only exists in the path taken, each day a little wider ?

 

Death has nothing to do with the situation, for it is there all the time.

 

by Jean Loup Pivin

 

 

contents of RN 12 :

 

 

ART / Farid Belkahia, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Kivuthi Mbuno, Gera, Cyprien Tokoudagba, Abdoulaye Konaté, Gouider Triki, Adel El Siwi, Rachid Koraïchi, Kacimi, Hammed Bouheddadj

PHOTO / Hamani, Touhami Ennadre, Jellel Gasteli, Philippe Bordas

LITERATURE / Bekri, Mohammed Bouchared, Samy Abtroun, Ahmed Kalouaz, Abdouh Joubayr, Ahmed El Madini

CINEMA / Kareche, Cinémathèque d'Alger

DESIGN / Yamo

TALKS MEMORY / Pisani, IMA, Institut du Monde Arabe, Brahim Alaoui, Boudjemaa Kareche, Denis Escudier, Watatu Foundation, Jacques Mercier , Nicole de Pontcharra, Mustapha Orif, Isma, Jean Loup Pivin

 

 

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