The Twain Minipaintings at Creon Gallery, New York, 11 November – 19 December 2009 .
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I don't remember when I started painting the Minipaintings. They came about in the early seventies as a counterpart to very large works I was producing, to capture in my mind the size of the surface I paint on as a crucial factor of my practice.
The Chimurenga Library is an online archive of pan African, independent periodicals. It is also the exhibition concept devised by the editors of Chimurenga for Cape Africa Platform 2009.
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The Dead Revolutionaries Club,
in association with Claudia Shneider and the Afrika Cultural Centre presents:
Thami Mnyele the artist was killed long before the 1985 apartheid raid exterminated him and eleven others in Botswana, Gaborone. The sense of compromising one’s art for the sake of urgent demands of the revolution are palpable in the transition between Mnyele’s earlier works to his later art as a revolutionary in exile.
Double issue Kwani? Nr. 5 examines Kenya in the context and violent aftermath of its 2007 elections is available in bookstores now.
Forthcoming exhibition 21 March – 2 May 2009
'The World is Flat'
Lise Mogel (US)
Krydz Ikwuemesi (NIG)
Heman Chong (SG)
Lasse Lau (DK)
curated by Johanne Loegstrup
opening times
Tues - Sat 10am - 6pm
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos
9 McEwen Street, Sabo, Lagos
www.ccalagos.org
artspeakafrica.blogspot.com
‘I had two heroes, Karl Marx and Al Capone. Al Capone said if you’re gonna steal, steal big. But Karl Marx said all property is theft. I think they’d both be proud of me.’
‘The beginning. Soweto. 1994. Freedom. The New South Africa. A new dawn. A new day. A fresh start, a clean page. A new beginning. And I had dreams.’
