Entries in African (42)

Monday
Mar162015

ARTE: REM KOOLHAAS LAGOS WIDE AND CLOSE

Architect Rem Koolhaas explores one of the most densely populated cities in the world in - Lagos Wide and Close An Interactive Journey into an Exploding City 
 
Saturday
Mar142015

ARTE: Kenturah Color Blocking in Accra

Kenturah is using her instagram to take some rad imagaery from Accra...everything is coming up #pink <3

instagram.com/kenturah

Sunday
Dec022012

ARTE: THE SAPEURS

I had tea with one of my favorite persons the other night, the beautiful creative fashion writer Chioma Nnadi and we were discussing Afri-pop, Solange Knowles new video and the article that inspired it.

Chioma wrote an article a few years ago about The Sapeurs when she was the Style Editor at the Fader Magazine.  Solange read that blog post and tracked down those men in the congo.

 

Sunday
Nov252012

ARTE: C-STUNNERS

I discovered Cyrus Kabiru's C STUNNERS on Maker Faire Africa 2010 and instantly fell in love!

From Maker Faire Africa's site:

Meet the makers of Maker Faire 2010

Maker Faire Africa is a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and creation. Here you will find the Makers who showed their work at the 2010 event in Nairobi Kenya. Work ranges from time saving devices for agriculture to alternative energy sources from design with recycled objects to social media applications for mobile phones. Per maker you will find a short synopsis of their work, their contacts details plus a possibliity to collaborate with them. Match your skills with one of the Makers.

Cyrus is a self taught painter and sculptor. This glasses series have no glass but are made with found objects. Each has its own story. The artistic series of once off pieces is inspired by his father who once broke his own glasses and refused to fix them.

 

Friday
Nov232012

ARTE: Mabeo Designs

Peter Mabeo is the creator and owner of a brillant furniture company in Gaborone, Botswanna.  When you visit Mabeo Furniture's website you will find four basic principles that make the company; good design, use of sustainable materials, craftsmanship and people & community development.  Producing some of the highest quality and best furniture pieces in the world, Mabeo Furniture works with the top desingers and exports largely to clients in Europe and America.

mabeofurniture.com

Naledi Tables designed by Patricia Urquiola


Thuthu Stools designed by Patty Johnson

Kalahari Table designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune

 

Wednesday
Oct032012

ARTE: AFWLA

We're excited to be hosting Africa Fashion Week LA! Happening October 11-13 every night from 7-10pm.

Get your tickets HERE

Africa Fashion Week Los Angeles 2012 Schedule of Events:

  • Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Welcome Mixer

Rooftop at the Standard Hotel

6pm-10pm

  • Day 1 - Thursday, October 11, 2012 (Runway Shows)

David G

Royal Dynamite

Glamm Fashions

Taye Taylor

7pm-10pm

  • Day 2 - Friday, October 12, 2012 (Runway Shows)

AfriChicDesigns

Seduction by Batani Khalfani

Nana O.

31 bits 

Rue114

7pm-10pm

  • Day 3 - Saturday, October 13, 2012 (Runway Shows)

Batani-Khalfani

Tina Summers

Fulani Fashions by Omatu & Sandra

Maxhosa by Laduma + Della LA

Bishme Cromartie

7pm -10pm

 

http://www.afwla.org

 

Wednesday
May022012

ARTE: STOP THE PERCEPTIONS HOLLYWOOD!

YES...this is brillant and funny! More information about this project HERE

mamahope.org

Friday
Dec302011

ARTE: Mustafa Maluka

L O V E

http://www.mustafamaluka.com/

 Whats there not to love about a man who makes art like this and wears t-shirts like that!

Saturday
Nov052011

ARTE: IN/FLUX - Mediatrips from the African World

IN/FLUX - Mediatrips from the African World

IN/FLUX is a series of three DVDs. Each DVD is a compilation of experimental films and videos from the African world. The violence and the pleasures, the contradictions, fears and desires of a planet shaped by the postcolonial condition, the present-future of our common humanity in a global, 21st century system shot through with radical change: these are the foci of IN/FLUX, addressed from Africa and her diasporas by creators who reject easy approaches or answers.

The works included in the first IN/FLUX DVD centre on the dual theme of movement and displacement. They consider shifts in time, place and psyche, in imaginaries and (pre)conceptions, played out on urban stages deployed as laboratories for the elaboration of alternative perceptual fields. A range of genres is represented: documentary gazes and Afrofuturist takes, spy camera zoom-ins and travels through virtual landscapes, (mock) music-video and horror-flick aesthetics. The result is a (media) trip through multiple universes: inner worlds, dreamscapes and in your face reality checks.

IN/FLUX is a partnership between two cutting-edge entities: SPARCK (Space for Pan-African Research, Creation and Knowledge / The Africa Centre – Cape Town, South Africa) and Lowave (an independent film label based in Paris, France). IN/FLUX # 1 is curated by Dominique Malaquais, Cédric Vincent and Silke Schmickl

10 Film(s), Interviews, Bios, Filmographies, runtime 104 minutes, PAL/NTSC, ALL ZONES, stereo, 4:3/16:9, Booklet text by Dominique Malaquais.

 

 

Andre S. Belcher - Contributor

Thursday
Oct132011

ARTE: Julia Raynham

We are happy to have a new contributor for ARTE: we've been following Andre S. Belcher and his interesting observations in contemporary art for a while now. When it comes to art Andre admits that he is only concerned with "The naked and unabashed truth."

Global Arts: Visual Arts - Experimental Film/Video

Julia Raynham
Born 1966 (Cape Town, South Africa)

Julia Raynham’s work melds choreography, theatre, poetry, video, sound, performance and improv, in a distinctly experimental vein. After studying architecture and music, she trained extensively as a sangoma (link beeen the ancestral and human worlds, specialist of herbal medicine, counsel in matters of psychological disturbance in Zulu, Swazi, Xhosa and Ndebele communities of Southern Africa). An ex-member of key collectives on the South Africa scene (Honeymoon Suites; The Mothertongue Project) and a writer (We Tell Our Old Songs: San Music of Southern Africa, with Marlene Winberg, 2004; ilikemagazine), she is the founder of Resonance Bazaar, a multidisciplinary platform for the development of artistic partnerships. Among her most renowned works are: Return to Traveller (The Edge, Cape Town, 2009); 21st Century Animal (7th edition of Rencontres Chorégraphiques de l’Afrique et de l’Océan Indien, 2008); and A New Body Will Be Assembled...More Brilliant Than Before (Below:Video)

Video: A collaboration between Julia Raynham and James Tayler

Andre S. Belcher - Contributor

Saturday
Oct082011

ARTE: Mary Sibande - Long Live The Dead Queen

South African artist Mary Sibande has done something amazing in her series Long Live The Dead Queen. We really love her installation/sculptures but what we love the most is how she takes over buildings in some nice and not so nice places with putting the “Dead Queen” up for the entire city to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Saturday
Jul102010

ARTE: SEYDOU KEITA

Friday
Jul092010

ARTE: AFRIKAN BAZAAR: INTERN

The gallery has its own YouTube channel now. Papillion Institute of Art

Thursday
Jul082010

ARTE: AFRIKAN BAZAAR ENDS JULY 12

Wednesday
Jul072010

ARTE: Ken Saro Wiwa: Street Art

Ken Saro Wiwa was an extraordinary writer and fought against the oil companies that polluted his land and people.  He was imprisoned and ultimately murdered by those he fought against.

"I am a man of ideas, in and out of prison my ideas will be heard"


Tuesday
Jul062010

ARTE: Sam Nhlengethwa

I think Rommie would be happy with these.

PS Sam is South African

Monday
Jul052010

ARTE: Stuart Bird

Stuart Bird lives in South Africa.  He is deeply concerned and not happy with the abuses and treatment of women.

Sunday
Jul042010

ARTE: FELA

Just read that this show ends in Jan 2011.  Only a few months left, make it to NY and see it.

Saturday
Jul032010

ARTE: Numa Perrier

Miss Numa Perrier was an artist from the Hello Show exhibit.  We just love this piece tons.

MISS NUMA GLOVES YOU 

Friday
Jul022010

ARTE: Muraina Oyelami

Muraina Oyelami is a master painter and performance artist.  He was born in Nigeria in 1940.