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  • "With the endlessly drawn-out discussion on the Restitution of African art, it is clear that the much-needed changes will not come through court proceedings or presidential mandates but by conscious, domestic action aimed to be more inclusive and accessible to all members of society for participation, especially the younger generation. If we hope to travel far in this fight,...
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    'RE-MEDIATION' exhibition at AFRICAN ARTISTS’ FOUNDATION, Lagos
  • DuduBloom More, Aligning Unsettled Calm I, 2020, Hand sewn cotton thread on paper, Courtesy of Berman Contemporary  
    Suzette Bell-Roberts highlights ten artists to look out for at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London. These artists are represented by galleries participating in the fair which opens to the public on Friday and runs until Sunday at Somerset House in London.   UBUNTU Gallery - Egypt Doaa Fakher, Untitled, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 103 x 108cm. Courtesy UBUNTU art gallery Doaa Fakher...
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    Ten artists to look out for at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2020, London
  • Redefining the word “South” for a new generation, the virtual exhibit showcases 90 notebooks transformed into powerful artworks by young creatives from three continents.More than 90 young artists from Gabon, Mozambique, the UK, USA, and refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants living in Italy have liberated the word “south” from ideology and invested it with personal meaning as part of...
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    Moleskine Foundation presents “Where is South?”
  • 2 August 1936 - 5 October 2020 Courtesy of Goodman Gallery. It is with sadness that Goodman Gallery announces the passing of Linda Givon, who founded the gallery in 1966. Goodman Gallery, together with our artists and community, wish long life and heartfelt condolences to Linda's brother Michael, daughter Lee, son Robert and their families. An immense tree has fallen in the forest of our...
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    Linda Givon | 1936 - 2020
  • Azu Nwagbogu. Photograph courtesy of Kadara Enyeasi.
    Azu Nwagbogu joins ART AFRICA as editor of the latest issue, titled RAPID RESPONSE Azu Nwagbogu. Photograph courtesy of Kadara Enyeasi. There can be little doubt that the times we are living through at this moment are both necessary and self-inflicted. It calls for repentance. The etymology of the word repentance is complex but the Greek translates as μετάνοια (metanoia). Metanoia is...
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    RAPID RESPONSE: Azu Nwagbogu Guest edits latest issue of ART AFRICA
  • Ekene Emeka Maduka, Morning Assembly, 2020. Oil on canvas. Courtesy Polartics (2)
    1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announces exhibitors, special projects and 1-54 Forum talks programme for London 2020Ekene Emeka Maduka, Morning Assembly, 2020. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Polartics. 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has announced 36 exhibitors from 17 countries participating in a new blended online and offline model for the upcoming London fair taking place 8-10 October 2020 (preview...
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    1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announces exhibitors, special projects and 1-54 Forum talks programme for London 2020
  • LEFT TO RIGHT: Susie Goodman, Myron M. Beasely, Nelly Guambe (2019 EPI Winner, 1st Prize), Maya Maljavic and Tapfuma Gutsa.
    Emerging Painting Invitational (EPI) is the pan-African prize of emerging painting Portraits of finalists: Agnes Waruguru N`joroge (Kenya), Dorra Mahjoubi (Tunisia), Elias Mung’ora (Kenya), Emna Kahouaji (Tunisia), Eyasu Telayneh (Ethiopia), George Masarira (Zimbabwe), Kirubel Abebe (Ethiopia), Kylie Wentzel (South Africa), Lincoln Mwangi (Kenya), Peteros Ndunde (Kenya), Sejiro Avoseh (Nigeria), Selome Muleta (Ethiopia), Thebe Phetogo (Botswana), Willy Karekezi (Rwanda), Yolanda Mazwana...
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    Emerging Painting Invitational (EPI) announces Finalists
  • Emerging Painting Invitational (EPI) 2019
    ART AFRICA is proud to announce their partnership with the second edition of EPI, 2020. Emerging Painting Invitational (EPI) announces Dates and Jurors for its second edition to be taking place online from the 12th to the 19th of October. LEFT TO RIGHT: EPI 2020 Jurors Amel Bennys, Dorothy Amenuke and Florine Demosthene. The Emerging African Art Galleries Association (EAAGA) is proud...
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    Emerging Painting Invitational (EPI) announces Jurors
  • Elna Venter, Madly in love.
    This digital version of an exhibition of artworks was prompted by the constraints imposed on all of us by the COVID-19 pandemic that has irrevocably changed the way in which we function as human beings. Instead, then, of hosting a gallery-based show of artworks, the three women artists who participated in this exhibition compiled a selection of works, together...
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    NWU Gallery, South Africa, present 'NEW CHAPTER: reclaiming old books'
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  • Cameron Platter, On Set: Beware the Curves, Scene 7: La Rêve, 2005 | Estimate: R 80 000 – 120 000
    Globally, sturdy results at art auctions over the past two quarters indicate a healthy market that is holding steady in challenging times. These results reveal that art trading has continued successfully, which bodes well for the future of the art market. This spring, Aspire returns to Johannesburg with a much-anticipated auction of Modern and Contemporary art taking place on...
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    Treasures & Trailblazers: Aspire Art Auctions sets the stage for exciting sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Johannesburg
  • Siwa Mgoboza, Bitch, You Betta Werk, 2017.
    Spotlighting Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa as excitement builds for dedicated auction in Paris. Aspire Art Auctions presents a co-curated auction of Modern and Contemporary African Art in collaboration with French auction house Piasa, to take place in Paris on Wednesday, 24 June.The debut of an African based auction house presenting a dedicated sale in Europe marks an industry...
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    Aspire Art Auctions Co-Curates Auction in Paris
  • Abstractly Ours: Amel Bennys & Osi Audu While African figuration continues to dominate the headlines of contemporary art on the continent, much remains to be said about the depth of tradition and history of abstraction on the continent. Philosophically nuanced and culturally complex abstraction gives each one of us the agency to interpret and reflect personally and intimately on and...
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    Masters we need to master
  • The 77-year-old artist spoke to ART AFRICA in an all-encompassing conversation that touched on his origins as an artist, his favourite materials and the state of contemporary art in South Africa today Pitika Ntuli with one of his monumental sculptures, Madiba and the Rainbow Children, 2016. Carved out of wood. Photographer: Refilwe Modise “I started as a traditional healer, and that...
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    Pitika Ntuli
  • Aspire X Piasa excels with unprecedented offering while accessing new global markets The landmark Aspire X Piasa Auction: Modern & Contemporary African Art, took place on Friday, 14 February at OroAfrica House in Cape Town. With a curated collection of 198 artworks, the large-scale Africa-focused auction offered collectors a diversity of works (painting, photography sculpture and mixed-media) by artists from...
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    Top Results for Modern and Contemporary African Art
  • Jane Alexander | something's going down, 1993-94 | Synthetic clay, oil paint, wood, aluminium, leather and prints | 135 x 132 x 38,5cm | R 800 000 - 1 000 000
    A new wave of internationally celebrated South African artists, among them Nicholas Hlobo, Athi-Patra Ruga and Simphiwe Ndzube, lead Strauss & Co’s much-anticipated Contemporary Art auction, due to be held in Cape Town on 15 February Nicholas Hlobo | Umphokoqo | Ribbon and rubber on Fabriano paper | 71 x 99cm | R 400 000 – 600 000 | All...
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    Strauss & Co’s 2020 Contemporary Art Sale is a bumper offering of pan-African talent
  • JH Pierneef, Baobabs with Soutpansberg in the distance, 1920, R – 9 million
    Ever-increasing global interest in art from Africa is changing the art market. To meet the growing demand, Aspire has partnered with Paris-based house Piasa, to introduce an Africa-focused auction that presents some of the best examples of modern and contemporary art produced on this continent. This collaboration is unprecedented and represents the first time an African and European auction...
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    Aspire & Piasa collaborate for an unprecedented sale of African art
  • Mohamed Melehi, Composition, 1970 Acrylic on panel, 120 x 100 cm Collection MACAAL
    Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School Archives is a celebration of the visual heritage that was wrongly overshadowed for the global art scene A student preparing the exhibition of students' works in the Fine Arts Gallery of the Arab League Park, organised by the Casablanca School of Fine Arts, June 1968. Photo M. Melehi. Archives Chabâa family. All images...
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    Retrospective of a Modern Moroccan Master
  • Ben Enwonwu's earliest masterpiece soars to £1.1M after thirteen-minute bidding battle – more than seven times above its pre-sale estimate Ben Enwonwu, Christine, 1971. Oil on canvas, 76,3 x 61cm. All images courtesy of the artists & Sotheby's. Sotheby’s fifth sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art, on the 15th of October 2019, surpassed pre-sale expectations to realise £4 million (pre-sale...
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    £4 million: The highest total ever achieved for a sale of modern and contemporary African art
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Zeitz MOCAA is excited to announce its re-opening Zeitz MOCAA is excited to announce its re-opening on 22 October with an exhibition by, and for, Capetonians, titled Home Is Where The Art Is: Art Is Where The Home Is.Whether you've inherited a painting, made your own etching, or are the proud parent of a young artist in residence, we want you to bring your joy to our walls.To enter, just fill in your details on the submission form by clicking one of the categories below, and drop off your artwork at your nearest collection point. Submissions open on 21 September and close on 5 October.For more details, visit our website.Don't miss this opportunity to bring your art home to Zeitz MOCAA.Which category does your artwork fall into? We welcome all sketches and photographs from your young Picasso, Zanele Muholi or Gerard Sekoto. Bring us your child’s most-prized creations. Whether you’re a lawyer who likes to paint on weekends, a hobby ceramicist or a notebook doodler, there's a spot for you. Bring us the art from African artists that you’re obsessed with. If you were lucky enough to be gifted with art from your grandparents or other loved ones, we want to see it. It’s safe to say, art is your life's work. Any medium, any topic. Now’s your time to show it off. If you have any questions, email us at submissions@zeitzmocaa.museum or call +27 (0)87 350 4777. View this email in your browser Facebook Twitter Link Website Copyright 2019 © Zeitz MOCAA, All rights reserved. ABOUT ZEITZ MOCAA Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is a not-for-profit institution that exhibits, collects, preserves and researches contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora; conceives and hosts international exhibitions; develops supporting educational, discursive and enrichment programmes; encourages intercultural understanding; and strives for access for all. The museum’s galleries feature rotating, temporary exhibitions with a dedicated space for the permanent collection. The institution also includes the Centre for Art Education, the Centre for the Moving Image, and a Project Space for emerging artists. It opened to the public in September 2017.Our mailing address is: communications@zeitzmocaa.museum
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