Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
(Profile Photo by Mama Casset)
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A LITTLE ABOUT ME:
Student, 24
Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria
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(since Oct. 21th 2012)
EVENT: TOYIN ODUTOLA, My Country Has No Name, May 16 – June 29, 2013.
Opening reception for the exhibition: Thursday, May 16th, from 6 – 8 PM at 513 West 20th Street.
Untitled abstract facial portraits by Sudanese artist Elltayeb Dawelbait
Eltayeb Dawelbait has always has been “fascinated with drawing people’s faces since college” and these “faces have been developing with my practice”, like birds varying their nest-building techniques from one nest to the next, including the direction they construct it.
Uzo Egonu, 1973
Born in 1931, Uzo Egonu was one of the outstanding artists of the second half of the 20th century in England, where he lived since 1945.
Influenced to the same degree by European modernism and traditional West African art, he painted pictures, to be seen in many public collections, in which abstract patterns and figurative forms in the style of pop-art combine in often poetic metaphors.
He died in 1996 in London.
The Lagosian attire for Yoruba men (the southern tribe), where I’m from, usually consists of the Buba which is a box shaped shirt made out of cotton that will either hit shy of his hips or hang long to his knees; Sokoto, which are trousers that are usually quiet loose; and Agbada (this is the master piece): It’s an oversized, flowing robe with wide arms and beautiful embroidery around the neck and chest area. This goes on top of the Buba shirt. All my collections are always inspired by the these simple silhouettes, textures and colors.
Zambia:
Works by Zambian artist Chilyapa Lwando
Aimé Mpane : 2007 Portraits installation gravure peinte
The carved and often burnt pieces of wood show us how a scar has been left on the community of Kinshasa
By carving out these faces on the wood, instead of leaving the image as a flat painting, Mpane seems to be inviting us into the psyche of the people that have been through this turmoil
Rehema Chachage (Dar es Salaam, 1987) is a Mixed Media artist-working mostly in video and sculptural instillations as well as performance-based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
She graduated in 2009 from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town where she received a Bachelors of Arts in Fine Art degree.
The themes explored in her work are very much determined by her situatedness, but the most prominent ones are ‘rootedness’ and ‘identity’—being a stranger, the outsider, the other, alien and often voiceless—most of which have been inspired by the social alienation that she experienced in the four years she spent as a cultural ‘foreigner’ and a non South African, black female student in a predominantly white middle class oriented institution.
Her exhibited artworks includes ‘Haba na Haba’ (Michaelis school of Fine Art, Cape Town) and, ‘Chipuza’ and ‘Mwangwi’ (Goethe Institute, Tanzania). She is one of the selected 42 African artists to participate in this year’s Dak’art Biennale of contemporary African art.
FASHION 2112: LE FUTUR DU BEAU
Using various scrap and waste raw materials, Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop creates a recyclable and futuristic fashion spread that keenly looks into what style may look like in this dystopian 22nd century setting that provides the backdrop for his creations.
#AFRO-FUTURISM
That is how we became they
They became those
Those became it
That is how a race was born
A race begun
Healthy black monster
Five finger, with thumb
Useful animal, so minimal
That is how the unknown became hostage
Simplicity became hostile
Healthy black monster, a different kind monkey
That is how culture became ritual
People became tribe… primitive
Language, no
Writing, no
How ignorance did become history
Well… so you I It thought so, well told story
Healthy black monster
Angolan artist Nastio Mosquito’s captivating multimedia short video makes use of a range of historical images that depict the enslavement of African peoples throughout the continent, as well as European colonization, stereotypes propagated by various forms of popular culture, and more recent post-colonial history, and merges these disturbing and unsettling visuals with a through-provoking and poignant narrated piece to illustrate how “ignorance did become history”.
Truly incredible.
Yaw Obuobi, one of Ghana’s finest artists, returns to his homeland with an exhibition entitled “A View From The Diaspora”.
Yaw is renowned for his signature style, using yarn knitting wool to create vibrant masterpieces which depict scenes of everyday West African cultural experiences. After mesmerizing many in North America, Europe, the African Diaspora, with his captivating art, Yaw is returning home to where it all started.
The exhibition will take place at Novotel in Accra from the May 2nd, 2013 to June 2nd, 2013.
James Cudjoe (GHANA)
James Cudjoe, was born on September 7th 1971 in Takoradi, a bustling port city in Ghana. Since his graduation from Ghana`s private art college Ghanatta in 1996, James has participated in seven highly successful national group and solo exhibitions, and his work sells fast off gallery walls. (x)
(via nocturnalphantasmagoria)
Studies from the ‘Queue’ Series, 2010, by Peterson Kamwathi
Toyin Odutola
The story of the hunt glorifies no one. (Homage to Chinua Achebe.)
2013Metallic marker on black board. 40 x 32 inches.
