1-54 Fair Panel discussion: The Cinematic eye of West African photographer Paul Kodjo
Please join the panel discussion At 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair The Cinematic eye of West African photographer Paul Kodjo: The Ivorian Miracle in the 1970’s Saturday May 4, 2019, 6:30 – 7:30pm Forum Room/1-54 at Industria, 775 Washington Street, New York City Panelists: Ananias Leki Dago (photographer and founder of Les Rencontres du […]
Abidjan in the 1970’s: Paul Kodjo photographs the Ivorian Miracle.
For the first time in the last 14 years a year has elapsed since I have set foot on the African continent. Health issues got in the way of my travels, however my engagement with African art has not waned. Indeed during the past year I have been discovering the 1970’s photographic work of Paul […]
Paris: African Art beyond the gallery
African contemporary art in Paris beyond the gallery and the museum. I just came back from two weeks in Paris and London where I checked out the extensive showing of African art. I am just amazed how the showing of Contemporary African art has taken off in Europe and in particular Paris. The efforts of […]
South African artist Zanele Muholi at Les Rencontres de la Photographie at Arles
I love that even though I now spend my summers in Provence in an adorable house in the foothills of the Luberon I don’t have far to go to see good African art. The Photography Festival at Arles – Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles – is an hour away and this year South […]
Malick Sidibe. A documentary
https://youtu.be/Zx6e7Sv7GCk
Ellsworth Kelly sees abstract forms in every day life: His photographs
Exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly photographs at Matthew Marks. Read the review of the exhibition in the New York Times for more information.
George Osodi: Nigeria Monarchs
George Osodi who is internationally famous for his powerful photographic series on the damage being done on the environment and life in the oil rich Niger delta, is now celebrating Nigerian cultural heritage. His new series Nigeria Monarchs on view in a splendid exhibition Royals & Regalia: Inside the palaces of Nigeria’s Monarchs at the Newark […]
The Joburg Art Fair 2014
The Getty Museum under Diane Frankel’s lead discovers African art and photography in Joburg. We landed in Joburg at the crack of dawn after a 15 hours flight, which while long was stress free! Listening to some of the other people we met up with at Joburg who had taken at least 24 hours to […]
Ground-breaking photographs from Port Harcourt: “Men of the Ogele” by Zina Saro -Wiwa
Men of the Ogele! a photographic series by Zinadu Saro-Wiwa, 2014. While getting her pop-up gallery in Port Harcourt up and running, Zina Saro-Wiwa has been focusing also on her own work which is to be shown at the Seattle Museum. She first set out to photographs the Ogele dancers who perform in local masquerades. […]
Hélène Amouzou: A quiet and poignant voice
“On est vidée de l’être qu’on est.” (One’s own Being is voided out) “Self portraiture is a way of writing without words. My aim is to reveal the deepest parts of myself.” Hélène Amouzou Hélène Amouzou’s ephemeral and ghostly self-portraits caught my attention. While in these two photographs she does not truly appear, her absence […]
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