The Chimurenga  chronic, Août 2016.

Faith Ringgold, Committee to Defend the Panthers, poster, 1970

Barkley L. Hendricks, Icon for My Man Superman (Superman never saved any black people - Bobby Seale), 1969

Lu dans Oruun : Vitshois, un artiste épris de “librisme”...

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Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo est sans doute un des artistes congolais contemporains qui va marquer sa génération. Ayant développé une technique de collage à partir d'images récoltées dans les magazines de mode, cet artiste travaille sur le message d'un monde globalisé et dans le même temps chaotique d'où peut sortir quelque chose d'inédit. Sa notion de contemporanéité se rapporte ainsi à une idée de création résultant de rencontres, de chocs et de brassage des cultures. Héritier de la philosophie du librisme, Vitshois questionne de manière quasi permanente la place de l'art congolais sur l'échiquier du marché de l'art contemporain international. C'est donc dans une volonté d'échapper aux frontières géographiques et culturelles qu'il a créé sa propre structure à Kinshasa. Il propose à des jeunes artistes congolais sortis de l'académie des Beaux-Arts un lieu où ils peuvent venir expérimenter, échanger, apprendre et développer à travers leur travail une identité artistique propre. Une identité libérée de tout carcan et autres cases dans lesquelles, malheureusement, on essaie souvent de les confiner.

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Lagos Photo Festival 5th Edition ‘Staging Reality, Documenting Fiction’ October 25 - November 26, 2014

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#FilmmakerFriday | Frances Bodomo

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I’m currently working on my first feature film, based on my short film Afronauts (which premiered at Sundance and the Berlinale in 2014). It’s about a group of Zambians who, in the 1960s, attempted to make it to the moon in spite of their lack of access to the cutting-edge technology of the time.

I’m really proud of the short film because it’s the film that taught me artistic perseverance. It was really hard on my collaborators and myself to create a hot summer desert on a cold beach in New Jersey! We walked away from the shoot with barely enough to stitch a film together. Editing took months & included a lot of pensive breaks. My editor, the uber-talented Sara Shaw, and I went down many crazy paths to come to the one we picture-locked on. We were so sure and so unsure. We sent it out into the world knowing we had stuck to our guns, but not knowing what it would be in the eyes of others. It’s been an exhilarating, surprising ride ever since.

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Space Age Buildings of Africa

Throughout the world, the 1950’s Space Age was known for its beautiful, bold architecture,full of swooshy curves and spaceship-shaped buildings. But some of the most vibrant and retro-futuristic buildings of the Space Age can be found in Africa. Here are the most amazing architectural achievements from Space-Age Africa. By Vince Miklos.

Mausoleum of Agostinho Neto, the first president of independent Angola in Luanda, Angola

Building in Warri, Nigeria

Kariakoo Market in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Memorial to the Martyrs in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso

Bujumbura International Airport, Bujumbura, Burundi

The CNPS building (The National Social Insurance Fund):

St. Paul’s Cathedral in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), designed by Aldo Spirito, consecrated in 1980

The National Assembly, the parliament of Cameroon

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Dedicated to the Cultural Preservation of the African Aesthetic

Dakar le 26 mai 2014. Selly Raby Kane, fashion designer, envahit l'ancienne gare ferroviaire de Dakar avec ses créatures mi alien mi cartoon. Le photographe ivoirien Paul Sika, le collectif de Ouakam Les Petites Pierres, sont mis à contribution pour faire le show et remettre au centre l'énergie urbaine dakaroise !

Kara Walker,  The Crossing, 2017

“The day of the Inauguration, Kara Walker, a painter and installation artist, couldn’t turn on the news; she started painting. The result is a monumental, nine-by-twelve-foot work, alluding to Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 Washington Crossing the Delaware.”