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Ikiré Jones. Idumota Market, Lagos 2081 A.D., from the series Our Africa 2081 A.D., 2014. Digital print, 35 x 45 cm. © Olalekan Jeyfous [vigilism.com] & Walé Oyéjidé [ikiréjones.com]
Making Africa A Continent of Contemporary Design october 30, 2015– february 21, 2016 second floor curated by amelie klein and petra joos Making Africa — A Continent of Contemporary Design showcases works from a diverse range of creative fields: object and furniture design, graphic arts, illustration, fashion, architecture, urban planning, art, craft, film, photography, and digital and analog approaches. These works deliberately occupy the gray areas between disciplines, and yet they provide concrete answers to the question of what 21st-century design can and should achieve. More oriented toward the process than the result, these creations make bold statements about the future and, at the same time, forge a link to the mid-20th century, when a young generation celebrated its liberation from colonialism and self-assuredly claimed its place in the world and its right to a promising future. Throughout Making Africa, examples of art and design from that era are juxtaposed with recent works. However, the exhibition does not claim to paint a complete picture of design in Africa: with 54 nations, more than 2,000 languages and cultures, and one billion inhabitants, the continent is simply too large, too complex, and too diverse.
What the show offers instead is a new story, one that perhaps has not yet been told. It is one possibility among many ways of looking at Africa and, in this regard, it is an invitation to embrace a brand-new perspective. An exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Vitra Design Museum
Amelie Klein and Petra Joos in Conversation wednesday , october
28, 6:30 pm
The show’s curators, Amelie Klein and Petra Joos, will discuss the development of the exhibition and the African continent from a new perspective. venue : Auditorium. Free tickets now available at the admissions desk and on the website.
During the final days of the exhibition installation, two artists included in the show will be creating a graffiti piece in the Atrium.