Unseen Art Scene (mirror)

This is a video sent to me today by Kwame Bakoji-Hume on Facebook and I wanted to share this with you all. There is no need to put down you brother as the world do that for you. There are times when it becomes increasingly difficult to continue so I appreciate this thought and music to soothe my frustrated brow - Cheers Kwame, we are together!

Zero Point Art Gallery                                       Contact Details Mindelo/Ilha S. Vicente, CABO VERDE Director: Alex da Silva Tel: 00238 2 312525 Email: alex@zeropointart.org Website:  http://www.zeropointart.org/ FB:  http://www.facebook.com/group. php?gid=124089520940088&ref=ts

Coming soon...but click on the picture to see more.

Here is some new Performance work by the video artist, Miguel Petchovsky

So how shall we remember him? Will we make for him a statue or construct a building in his honour? One of the greatest artists from Africa has died. For me, it is terribly sad. To leave this earth and not to be replaced. To exit; and with your exit leave a void. A space too big to fill. Somehow Twins made up the old skool; the bad boy made good. The school of hard knocks and with his parting he has taken with him the spirit of the age. Nigeria has dramatically changed in the past 50 years almost changing beyond recognition but with Twins Seven-Seven's departure so the country has less of an identity and maybe in jeopardy of missing a heartbeat. What sadness to hear that the Great Twins Seven-Seven is dead. It is an end of era. The first of the Contemporaries has died. He was the beginning; he was the middle and the end. Twins works included: painting, traditional Yoruba singing, acting, writing and poetry . Reports today from the Nigerian Tribune confirm the death of Nigeria's

I've started something really interesting and want to see how it develops.

Paul Hardcastle's New Blog Paul is one of the strongest voices in the world  of art. His blog promised to be a rich source of  inspiration and creative ideas. His knowledge of different art forms is wonderfully extensive and  thankfully, he has the generosity of spirit to share  his knowledge with all of us. Doodles for a project in abstract figurative sculptural form using ceramics, glass and mosaic to produce a visually stunning array of shape, texture and colour.

Recently, I have been working on a series of images combining tribal art mixed within a contemporary setting. This idea was encouraged by an artist friend of mine, Joel Nankin. Here are a series of 6 images entitled:  "Tribal Sunsets"  If interested in purchasing these works please contact the site: The works are Metallic Kodak prints on metallic paper; mounted onto aluminium with an aluminum sub frame.  This is a series of 6 works and limited to 5 Editions. They come signed and numbered with a letter of authenticity. Size: Image 1 to 3 - 76cm x 76cm Image 4 to 6 - 70cm x 100cm Single Print without mount: £575 Series of 6 prints without mount: £2,500 or fully mounted with sub-frames: Single Print with mount: £1,875 Series of 6 prints with mount: £9,000 Contact: africanartists@hotmail.co.uk

Artist: Henry Lutalo Lumu Country: Uganda Dates: 1939-1989 Henry Lutalo Lumu is credited by many of Uganda's artists as being one of the country's brightest and most widely influential talents of modern Ugandan art from as early as the 1950s until his death in 1989. Studying under Margaret Trowell at Makerere University, Lumu became adept at drawing at an early age. While also beginning to work with semi-abstract forms, still felt his art was strongly anchored within the precise drawing of form. Choosing to gradually modify the shapes, tones, and style of his works to incorporate less natural appearances, he nevertheless incorporated recognizable figures and objects executed in an innovative semi-abstract style. However he still felt that students who were taught abstract techniques before becoming adept at drawing were cheated from becoming complete artists. In 1965, he expressed his disappointment with what he saw was an over-emphasis on abstraction at the expense of skilled

Bili Bidjocka b.1962 - Present Cameroon/France Photo: Bili Bidjocka, Pascale Marthine Tayou and Pierre Granoux are ready to put an imaginery graffity at the New Berlin Wall BILI BIDJOCKA was born in Douala, Cameroon in 1962, and has lived in Paris since the age of 12. He is a painter and installation artist who has held several one-person shows in Europe and America. He has contributed to several group shows, including Otros Pais, which traveled through Europe in 1995. He is widely traveled and exhibited, making his work on the road, turning the debris of urban living and its excesses into art. He creates metaphors for loss, absence, ravishment, and renewal through his installation pieces. The work deals with issues of nationality, indeterminacy, and identity. He will be exhibiting in the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City with Los Carpinteros in the Summer of 1998. Additional information on the artist can be found on the World Wide Web [6]. Explicit Lyrics, one of two Bid

Candice Britz | South Africa Candice Breitz South Africa/USA b.1972 - Present N.B. Source: http://www.artthrob.co.za/oct98/artbio.htm Modus operandi: Exploding the terrain of representation, Candice Breitz employs a variety of darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions as presented and accepted in the media and popular culture. Working from such diverse sources as National Geographic, Penthouse and the National Inquirer, Breitz appropriates photographs and visual fragments and recontextualises these in bold, sometimes tasteless-seeming images, which, while jarring and discomforting for the viewer, radically challenge conventional wisdom and question currently accepted assumptions. Artist`s statement: I am interested in deploying the art work as a catalyst, one which momentarily freeze-frames problematic ways of making meaning, and renders them strange. My interest lies not in censoring the desires inspired by the commodity be that c