Over 30 visual artists, musicians from 11 countries involved.
Today, Saturday June 2, African artists and musicians gather to celebrate The Arts
of Africa, which opens at Manchester, U.K, running till September 16, 2012.
Titled We Face Forward, it
features painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, video and audio
installation of 32 artists as well as fashion and music from top artistes of
West African descents.
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One of the works on display, Nnenna
Okore, When the Heavens Meet, 2011
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Exhibiting artists are Georges Adéagbo (Benin), El Anatsui (Ghana/Nigeria), Hélène Amazou (Togo / Belgium), Lucy Azubuike (Nigeria), Mohamed Camara (Mali / France), Cheick Diallo (Mali / France), Aida Duplessis (Mali), Em’kal Eyongakpa (Cameroon), Aboubakar Fofana (Mali / France), Meschac Gaba (Benin/ Netherlands), Francois-Xavier Gbré ( Ivory Coast / France), Romuald Hazoumè (Benin), Abdoulaye Armin Kane (Senegal), Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali) and Soungalo Malé (Mali).
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Victoria Udondian's Aso ikele (Used clothes, Burlap,printed fabric, 7m x 6m) |
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Pascale
Marthine Tayou, Home Sweet Home, 2011.
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According to the curator, Natasha Howes, the gathering asks the rest of the world to take another look at influence of Africa on globalisation within the context of commercd and environmental challenges.
“Major new sculptural installations, painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video, sound and fashion ask us to consider global questions of trade and commerce, cultural influence, environmental destruction and identity. Challenging and humorous, curious, noisy, elegiac and eclectic – this is the dynamism of West African cultures today.”
The
art and fashion shows hold at Manchester Art Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery and
the Gallery of Costume (Platt Hall). “Major new sculptural installations, painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video, sound and fashion ask us to consider global questions of trade and commerce, cultural influence, environmental destruction and identity. Challenging and humorous, curious, noisy, elegiac and eclectic – this is the dynamism of West African cultures today.”
The music programme, which is being curated by Band On The Wall and The Manchester Museum, features Femi Kuti, Angelique Kidjo, Diabel Cissohko and Kanda Bongo Man.
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Romuald
Hazoume, ARTicle 14: Débrouille-toi, toi-même, 2005
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This is all very well but it would be useful to add that Africa has not yet recovered the looted artefacts that are still in Western museums. Kwame Opoku
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