Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga: Transformation
A new exhibition of works by Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga opens in London 12 September 2013, the first solo show by the Kenya-born artist in the British capital. The works in the October Gallery London exhibition 12 September – 26 October 2013 are predominantly wall-hanging sculptures created from tin cans, steel wire and oxidised sheet metal forms. While the techniques Gakunga uses are common to the fibre arts across many traditions,...
Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist
Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist (3 July–22 September 2013) is, for Tate Modern, a ground-breaking event and for El-Salahi, a retrospective that brings together work over five decades. This first major exhibition of the Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi in the UK brings together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective will highlight one of the most significant figures in...
Africa Remix at the Mori Art Museum
The recent showing of Africa Remix: contemporary art of a continent at Tokyo’s high-rise Mori Museum sheds new light on how location and audience can impact on an exhibition of art seen elsewhere in different settings and aimed towards other audiences. Download article, EAR53_AfricaRemix
africa95, Africa05 and beyond: El Anatsui in conversation with Sajid Rizvi
The artist El Anatsui, featured in the Royal Academy Summer Show 2013, spoke to Sajid Rizvi, Publisher and Editor in Chief of Eastern Art Report and publisher of the first book on the artist’s work (El Anatsui: A Sculpted History of Africa | Buy this book) at the opening of his exhibition at the October Gallery, London, in August 2005. Below are edited excerpts: Sajid Rizvi. What has happened since africa95 in the world of...