Established in 1956, Clarke’s Bookshop in Cape Town, South Africa, is one of the oldest surviving independent bookshops in the country.
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Cape Town Art Fair’s curatorial project “SOLO”: Proprioception
SOLO – the Investec Cape Town Art Fair’s curatorial project – is nothing short of astonishing this year. It is not the nod to women artists, a global genuflection, that matters, but the quality of the work.
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Cape Town Art Fair “Tomorrows/Today”: A Platform for Ideas and stimulating encounters.
In anticipation of the 2020 Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF), The Art Momentum spoke with the curators of the fairs’ Tomorrows/Today section; Nkule Mabaso (Curator, Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town) and Luigi Fassi (Artistic Director, MAN-Contemporary Art Museum, Nuoro, Italy)
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Emeka Ogboh’s audio works: The power of Sound
Driven by the emotive power of electro-audio rhythms, sound artist Emeka Ogboh speaks with Nana Ocran about his creative processes in the lead up to his ART X Lagos showcase.
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Yohannes Tesfaye: Making his Mark
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and based in San Diego, USA, Yohannes Tesfaye is a painter whose works are as robust as his work experience, which includes creating illustrations for children’s books
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Ablade Glover: The unsung Heroines of Africa’s Modern Art History
Professor Ablade Glover is a seminal figure of the renowned West African generation of modern artists from the twentieth century.
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Bubu Ogisi and Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu: Play as Creation
Brought together by ART X Lagos and A White Space Creative Agency – the fair’s associated curators of interactive projects – Creative Director Bubu Ogisi and multimedia artist Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu
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Sam Nhlengethwa: Portrayal of the Everyday
Through his large, colorful canvases, Johannesburg-based artist Sam Nhlengethwa asks us to look again and again at individual moments that collectively form a picture of daily life and culture.
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Wangechi Mutu: Alternative Histories and Futures
Born in Kenya, trained at Yale University, and based between Nairobi and New York City, Wangechi Mutu is a visual artist with a multifaceted cultural identity.
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ruby onyinyechi amanze: Place and Placeness
ruby onyinyechi amanze’s drawings are fragments of line and shape, dynamic elements that disperse until they finally converge at a resting point of geometric composition.
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