Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce, Parijs, Frankrijk

Eerste openstelling van Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce.Over het algemeen vind ik de collectie wat tegenvallen. Het enige dat me aanspreekt zijn de werken in met name galerie 7, met een grote vertegenwoordiging van zwarte makers, zoals Kerry James Marshall, Ser Serpas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Antonio Oba, maar ook werken van Martin Kippenberger, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas etc.

The Power of my Hands. Afrique(s): artistes femmes – Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris, Parijs, Frankrijk

a group of works by sixteen women artists from various English – and Portuguese – speaking African countries or the diaspora. The result is an insight into an African contemporary art scene rarely presented in France.

 

The Power of My Hands tells us how artists can use their personal histories to address the social issues that govern the condition of women today. Examining a range of themes – the body, sexuality, self-representation, motherhood, beliefs – the exhibition asks how, for Black women, attitudes to privacy reveal what goes unsaid and their relationship with the world. It does this via an intermingling of the notions of memory, family, spirituality and imagination.

The works on display – including paintings, pottery, photographs, videos, performances and needlework – celebrate the liberating energy of the «power of their hands».

Even if some of these artists make no claim to feminist or radical political stances, the exhibits enable the sharing of individual experiences whose collective, universal assertion chimes resonantly with the famous 1970s slogan «the personal is political».

With works by: Stacey Gillian Abe, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Gabrielle Goliath, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Keyezua, Lebohang Kganye, Kapwani Kiwanga, Senzeni Marasela, Grace Ndiritu, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Reinata Sadimba, Lerato Shadi, Ana Silva, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Billie Zangewa, Portia Zvavahera.

Elles font l’abstraction – Centre Pompidou, Parijs, Frankrijk

he exhibition sets out to write the history of the contributions of women artists to abstraction, with one hundred and six artists and more than five hundred works dating from the 1860s to the 1980s.

“Women in Abstraction” provides an opportunity to discover artists who represent discoveries both for the specialist and for the general public. It showcases the work of many of these women who suffer from a lack of visibility and recognition beyond the frontiers of their countries. Reviewing their specific contribution to the history of abstraction, the exhibition focuses on the careers of artists who were sometimes unjustly eclipsed from the history of art.

ArtZuid 2021 – Amsterdam

Een expo waar ik altijd blij van word: ArtZuid. Dit jaar zijn er een aantal bijzonder mooie werken en een flink aantal kunstenaars waar ik nog niet van gehoord had. Zoals deze van Joseph Klibansky bijvoorbeeld, de hazen van Iris Le Rütte de mooie kamelen van Jean-Marie Appriou, de vrouwensculpturen van Marieke Bolhuis, de gezichten van vluchtelingen van Moura Vieira, de 3 gezichten van Jaume Plensa en natuurlijk de moeder met kind van KAWS voor het Rijksmuseum. Een bezoek waard!