El Hadji Sy : painting, performance, politics / Weltkulturen Museum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Senegalese--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art, Senegalese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Diaphanes, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics offers the first art-historical survey on the multidimensional work of Senegalese artist, curator, and cultural activist El Hadji Sy. Spanning thirty years of his practice as a painter, performance artist, and founder of numerous artists' collectives and workshops in Dakar (Laboratoire AGIT'ART, Tenq, and Village des Arts), it provides unprecedented insight into the conceptual and aesthetic framework of a major living artist and curator from West Africa.With newly commissioned essays and interviews by Hans Belting, Clémentine Deliss, Mamadou Diouf,

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword / Clémentine Deliss, Yvette Mutumba; Introduction: El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics / Clémentine Deliss; The artwork becomes a socialised object, enhanced and embellished by the community: El Hadji Sy in conversation with Julia Grosse; Dancing in and out of painting / Philippe Pirotte; El Hadji Sy and the quest for a post-négritude aesthetics / Mamadou Diouf; Brothers in arms: Laboratoire AGIT'ART and Tenq in the 1990s / Clémentine Deliss; Between Frankfurt und Dakar: The passion of two pioneers / Yvette Mutumba

El Hadji Sy in conversation with Hans BeltingCardiology of a life's work / Manon Schwich; Image index; El Hadji Sy: Biography; Contributors' biographies; Selected reading; Imprint

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 28, 2015).

ISBN:

3-03734-592-6