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Pinar Yolacan Bahia Maria Berry Bickle The White Library Sokari Douglas Camp (CBE) Red Paisley King and Queen Monique Pelser Bystander series (In View) Bongi Bengu Speaking from Both Sides of the mouth A and B, Sokari douglas Camp (CBE) Yoruba Ladies, Helga Kohl Kolmaskopp. Sokari Douglas Camp (CBE) Stars and Moon Ladies Sorry I have not updated recently but I thought that the last few posts would keep you going while I was away. If you keep up to date with my blog you will know that I was in Johannesburg for the second annual Art Fair. The fair held at the Sandton Convention Centre from the 3rd- 5th April 2009 and featured both local (South African) and International galleries, Mine (Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos) was the only African gallery not based in SA. Nontsikelelo 'lolo' Veleko, Bisi Silva, Oyinda Fakeye Oyinda Fakeye and Sokari Douglas Camp (CBE) Berry Bickle

11th - 27th March 2009 Durban Art Gallery, Durban 2nd Floor,City Hall, Anton Lembede Street, Durban 4001, South Africa The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA,Lagos ) is pleased to present to a Durban audience its inaugural special projects initiative. “In the light of play” is an exhibition organised by Nigerian curator, Bisi Silva consisting of works by acclaimed artists; Berry Bickle (Zimbabwe) Sokari Douglas Camp (Nigeria/UK) Helga Kohl (Namibia) Bongi Bengu (South Africa), Pinar Yolacan (Turkey) and Monique Pelser (South Africa). In the light of play eschews a prescribed conceptual framework to highlight multiple connections, interconnections and even disconnections in the work of individual artists. Through this format the exhibition communicates the way in which artists are dealing with some of the salient issues in contemporary society as they affect us individually and collectively; culture and tradition, identity, memory, presence and absence, the body, consumption and ...

By Sean O'Toole Published: January 19, 2009 Culled from: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/30069/2009-preview-art-in-a-vast-continent/ CAPE TOWN—Contemporary African creativity has been the source of much intrigue, argument, and hype in recent years, with shows aplenty in North America and Europe. That’s good news if you live in Paris or New York, less so if you’re a resident of Dakar or Luanda, Nairobi or Cape Town. Not that the 922 million inhabitants of the 53 states making up the world’s second-largest continent are without cultural entertainment. But you won’t read about it in Time Out Africa — there isn’t one. The problem is perhaps best summarized in a quote from the frustrated online editors of the Mail & Guardian, a leading South African weekly newspaper: “We, the people of this vast continent, do not all know each other, nor is the staff of this South African newspaper equipped to be an authority on every last detail of every last country; we don’t supply accommodatio...