In/sight: African photographers, 1940 to the present

Presenting the work of 30 diverse photographers from throughout Africa since 1940, this is the complete catalogue of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Studio portraits of the 1940s by photographers such as the Ivory Coast's Cornelius Yao Azaglo Augustt, Senegal's Salla Casset and Meissa Gay, and Mali's Seydou Keita depict a period of great transformation in Africa. Examples of the 1950s include work by Bob Gasani, Peter Magubane and Lionel Oostendorp for the magazine "Drum", and featured photographers of the 1960s and 1970s include Samuel Fosso (Central African Republic), David Goldblatt (South Africa), Ricardo Rangel (Mozambique) and Malick Sidibe (Mali). These more recent photographs chronicle the development of independent countries and the emergence of Africa as part of the modern world. Contemporary artists in North Africa and Nigeria are represented by work on new themes.

In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present

Arts & Photography

Tilkin, Danielle

Zaya, Octavio

Bell, Clare

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Photography & Video

Guggenheim Museum

The first monograph on Iraqi artist Hayv Kahraman surveys her figurative work, which mines the marginal space that pertains to diasporic peoples, collective and personal memory, and gender. The vital practice of Hayv Kahraman produces ethereal figures relating to each other in complex grounds. Their grace belies the brutal history of violence and displacement Kahraman’s subjects endure, creating an oscillating effect that entices the viewer with its seductive order. The artist combines elements of Italian Renaissance painting and twelfth-century Baghdadi illuminated manuscripts to create an evocative, hybrid vocabulary. Her quietly radical shifts—where traditional Iraqi screens’ geometric patterns are replaced with sections of a woman’s body, or a manuscript figure is presented as doll-like parts—convey the artist’s developing exploration of femininity, acculturation, and abstract patterns. Essays by Martin Daughtry, Walter Mignolo, and Octavio Zaya accompany works from all series to date, where graphic patterning attests alternately to violence and to moments of agency, community, and escape.

Hayv Kahraman

Al-Khudhairi, Wassan

Mignolo, Walter

History & Criticism

Rizzoli Electa

In the 1980s, London-based Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, born in 1958, worked as an assistant to filmmaker Derek Jarman, soon gaining a reputation for his own experimental shorts and his collaborations with the dancer Michael Clark. Since the 1990s, Wyn Evans has also been creating installations, often inspired by cinema history or literature, that incorporate elements like philosophical texts, mirrors, neon lights, fireworks, plants and Morse code to form a constellation of meanings that unravel into myriad poetic associations. Evans' desire to animate knowledge and reconceive the materials of the past make him analogous to Marcel Broodthaers, his erstwhile mentor Derek Jarman or even William Blake. This publication includes essays that delve into the artist's use of language and his experiments with time and perception. On the subject of Evans' purposeful inscrutability, critic Jens Asthoff has written, "Evans wants to go beyond that which we describe as understanding, to reach the untranslatable elements hidden in all experience. 'I hate the idea of being accessible,' he says." This volume includes nearly 200 images of the artist's installations, films, wall texts and sound works.

Cerith Wyn Evans: Visibleinvisible

Birnbaum, Daniel

Reference

Hatje Cantz

Trial Balloons explores the international art scene and the latest artistic "currents" on the move. Like trial balloons that measure different components of the atmosphere, this book aims to take the pulse of complex artistic currents currently in circulation with an international selection of artists who have been working since the start of the new century. This group show brings together more than 50 artists and other creative talents, including designers, architects and performers, and features Funky Projects, Dr. Hofmann, Heba Farid, Fernando Renes and Tintin Wulia.

Trial Balloons/Globos sonda (Spanish and English Edition)

Pérez Rubio, Agustín

Pardo, Tania

EDITORIAL ACTAR

The exhibition It Will All End In Tears, the first individual show dedicated to the artist Jesper Just (Copenhagen, 1974) in Spain, takes its title from one of the five films chosen by the curator Octavio Zaya, which together with Bliss and Heaven, Some Draughty Window, Something to Love and A Vicious Undertow completes the show and explores the main themes treated by Jesper Just: gender as a social and cultural construct rather than biological, and the generation gap, specifically centred on the father-son relationship.

It Will All End in Tears

La Casa Encendida

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