Stephan Rheeder, Author at ART AFRICA Magazine

Faith Ringgold, American People Series #18: The Flag Is Bleeding, 1967. Oil on canvas, 182,9 x 243,8cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and Gift of Glenstone Foundation (2021.28.1). © Faith Ringgold / ARS, NY and DACS, London, courtesy ACA Galleries, New York 2021.

Faith Ringgold at the New Museum, New York, United States

EXHIBITION / 16 February 2022

Bringing together over sixty years of work, ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the artist’s impactful vision. Faith Ringgold, American People Series #18: The Flag Is Bleeding, 1967. Oil …

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To tailor a garment by “rock of eye” is to rely on the drape in the fitting process—that is, to rely on experience over mathematical measurement. Draping is a kind of drawing in space: a freehand, an intuition, a trust of materials. ‘Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye’, the artist’s first museum solo exhibition, brings together collages, drawings, sculptures, and installations that draw the contours of body and place. It begins with, and departs from, his past assemblages and collages that center magazine images of the Black male body and trace the social history and form of the zoot suit, a garment at the center of the 1943 attacks primarily on Mexican American, African American, and Filipino American youth in Los Angeles known as the Zoot Suit Riots. Montes-Michie was born in El Paso, Texas, and his practice reflects his experience growing up along the United States and Mexico border. The exhibition is presented in tandem with the artist’s monograph, Rock of Eye (co-published by CAAM, Rivers Institute, and Siglio Press), which deconstructs Montes-Michie’s collage practice. In the book and in CAAM’s galleries, repurposed images lead from figure to ground – occupying an ambiguous space between portraiture and landscape – and reveal common threads between borderland subjectivity and geography. ‘Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye’ is a collaboration between CAAM and the Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought in New Orleans. The exhibition is curated by Andrea Andersson, Rivers Institute founding director and chief curator, with Jordan Amirkhani, curator, Rivers Institute, and Taylor Renee Aldridge, visual arts curator, CAAM. The exhibition will be on view from the 5th of February until the 4th of September 2022. For more information, please visit the California African American Museum. FEATURED IMAGE: Troy Montes-Michie, America Is Woven of Many Threads #1, 2019. Graphite, coloured pencil, grease pencil, and polyester thread on magazine paper, 11 x 18in.

Troy Montes-Michie at the California African American Museum

EXHIBITION / 14 February 2022

Troy Montes-Michie, America Is Woven of Many Threads #1, 2019. Graphite, coloured pencil, grease pencil, and polyester thread on magazine paper, 11 x 18in. To tailor a garment by “rock of eye” is to rely on the …

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‘Giving Direction: Figuration, Past and Present’ at Strauss & Co, Cape Town, South Africa

AUCTION / 14 February 2022

Exhibition exploring Figuration in Contemporary African Art starts the year for Strauss & Co Figuration is a powerful conceptual thread linking historical, traditional, modernist, and contemporary art in Africa. Strauss & Co’s first offering of …

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Isaac Julien Receives Goslar Kaiserring Award 2022

AWARD / 11 February 2022

The London-based artist is honoured for his sensual and poetic visual narrative that breaks down barriers between different artistic disciplines Isaac Julien. Photographer: Thierry Bal Born in London in 1960, Isaac Julien is an international …

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Hassan Hajjaj at Fotografiska Tallinn, Estonia

EXHIBITION / 11 February 2022

Also shown at Fotografiska Stockholm(2020) and Fotografiska New York (2021), ‘VOGUE, The Arab Issue’ is an immersive exhibition that brings together five of Hassan Hajjaj’s most important series developed over the past three decades. Vibrant …

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Bikoka Art Project launches in Cameroon

EXHIBITION / 10 February 2022

Bikoka Art Project, a new initiative developed by art historian and curator Christine Eyene, dedicated to supporting creative and professional opportunities for young people and women in the field of contemporary art The initiative is …

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SIYABENGENA! UNOFFICIAL ART FAIR AFTER PARTY, Cape Town, South Africa

EVENT / 10 February 2022

What happens when you open a door into a space with people, culture, fame and foreign idioms spreading their stardom on the dance floor? …LESS DISCOURSE, MORE DEMOCRACY AT THE DISCO!… This cultural revolution comes …

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Amplifying Black and Diverse Histories the Focus of New Wikimedia Foundation Collaboration with African Artist

PROJECTS / 9 February 2022

Ghanaian artist, Enam Bosokah, will create the first cohort of art works representing historical figures from Ghana and Senegal The Wikimedia Foundation, the global nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, announced the launch of Wiki Unseen, a …

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The Milk of Dreams, the main exhibition of The 59th Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale 2022 Reveals Artist List

BIENNALE / 9 February 2022

In the main exhibition “The Milk of Dreams”, curator Cecilia Alemani invited 213 artists to present their work from April 23 to November 27 The world’s biggest art exhibition has named 213 artists from 58 …

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Joy Yamusangie, A New Love. Courtesy of the artist & NOW Gallery.

NOW Gallery presents the Young Artist Commission 2022: Joy Yamusangie

EXHIBITION / 9 February 2022

Joy Yamusangie’s Feeling Good – a fictional jazz club – will be unveiled on the 25th of March 2022 Since 2014, NOW Gallery in Greenwich Peninsula has established itself as London’s go-to destination for discovering new talent …

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