The 227 Artworks containing the word continents - africa

From pyrography, to graphic designing, Louise is a very versatile artist. As a young African, it is her responsibility to bring awareness to the potential of her continent. Growing out of the colonial era, our taste for foreign goods as opposed to local goods was spawned. An unlikely side effect of ...

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Willem de Rooij (1969, Beverwijk, Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin.De Rooij’s work reflects on the conditions of the exhibition space and of institutional practice. Central in his work is the selection and combination of images in a variety of different media, which range from sculpture to pho...

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Between 1984 and 1988, Bruce Onobrakpeya explored the Sahelian Masquerade as a theme in his works. Focusing on cultures in the Sahelian region of Africa, these works were significant as a voice in addressing issues of environmental destruction in the region at the time. On Panel of 5, Onobrakpeya us...

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Willem de Rooij (1969, Beverwijk, Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin.De Rooij’s work reflects on the conditions of the exhibition space and of institutional practice. Central in his work is the selection and combination of images in a variety of different media, which range from sculpture to pho...

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Akinola Lasekan was one of the pioneers of Nigerian modernism in art who was famous for portraiture. He was a self-thought artist before the colonial art education by the then British administration in the early 20th century. He was part of the first set of students formally trained by the English a...

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These are the horses of the British cavalry regiments from the whole empire gathered in London for the coronation. Some of these four-footed heroes were in service in India, some in the South African war, others perhaps in China; others never left home in the British Isles. Some of them are from Ame...

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Abdoulaye Konaté (b. 1953, Diré, Mali) is an artist who lives and works in Bamako, Mali. He is the recipient of many awards including: Officier de l’Ordre National du Mali (2009); Prix Passeport – Créateurs sans Frontiéres (2008); Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mali (2002); Chevalier de l’Ordre de...

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This tapestry, made in Kabul by Afghan embroiders to the designs of Alighiero Boetti, represents the global geopolitical situation at the beginning of the 1970s, with the relative distribution of power. The subdivision of the globe on the basis of the territorial confines of each state, identified b...

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Arum Lilies by the South African artist Maggie Laubser (1886-1973) was painted in 1922. Arum Lilies or Zantedeschia is a genus of eight species of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa from South Africa north to Malawi. The genus has been introduced...

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A soldier takes cover while on the frontline at the war-torn Shaba Province, Zaire. During the 1970s, Mohamed (Mo) Amin, also known as ‘Six Camera Mo’ became one of the most relied-upon African news photographers, reporting on wars and coups all through the African continent and his pictures were of...

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