Unseen Art Scene (mirror)

Adoration Exhibition at Beautiful Art Gallery, Vichy. “Flourism” Artist: Emmanuel Kavi from Togo Playwright Arthur Miller, wrote his famous one act play, "Incident at Vichy" in 1964, which observes a group of men detained in Vichy, France. The men are all held in a makeshift detention cell, awaiting the unknown. What they are being held for soon becomes apparent, their “racial inspection” by the gendarmes sous Vichy and officers of the German army during the Second World War. The play dissects the true nature of human-beings, focusing on what has been done in the town and how easy tyranny and intimidation can dominate the weak majority. The themes of this short Play revolve around the ideas of guilt, fear and complicity and examines how the Nazis were able to perpetrate the Holocaust with so little resistance.  With this troubled history in mind, to hear of a Congolese man, Christian Miltoni, had set up an establishment supporting the artists of Africa in the centre was qui...

Today, we making HISTORY - African Art aligns itself and it's influence of all things Modern thanks to the Joe Pollitt Collection being presented at Lots Road, Chelsea, London this coming weekend. The Auction comes up on Sunday but regardless of the outcome we are witnesses to a shift in global thinking about Africa, Art and Modernity. Comment from Joe Pollitt "I have, for the longest time, wanted to achieve this in my lifetime, to make that connection of European Modernity and the importance and influence of Africa and with the assistance of Bob Hayton at Lots Road Auction we have achieved the impossible. .This Sale will go down in the history of African Art and will certainly be the Best Tribal Art Sale of all time." Lots Road Auctions, CHELSEA, This Sunday. Lots Road Auctioneers Sunday 21st June 2015 12pm until 3pm View Larger Map 71 Lots Road Auctions, Chelsea, London, SW10 0RN. Tel: +44 (0)20 7376 6800 Fax: +44 (0)20 7376 6899 Email: info@lotsroad.com Website: Lots R...

A Bakuba woman weaving a textile Kuba Textiles Kuba textiles are unique in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , formerly Zaire , for their elaboration and complexity of design and surface decoration. Most textiles are a variation on rectangular or square pieces of woven palm leaf fiber enhanced by geometric designs executed in linear embroidery and other stitches, which are cut to form pile surfaces resembling velvet. Women are responsible for transforming raffia cloth into various forms of textiles, including ceremonial skirts, ‘velvet’ tribute cloths, headdresses and basketry . Raffia Cloth In Kuba culture, men are responsible for raffia palm cultivation and the weaving of raffia cloth . Several types of raffia cloth are produced for different purposes, the most common form of which is a plain woven cloth that is used as the foundation for decorated textile production. Men produce the cloth on inclined, single-heddle looms and then use it to make their clothing and...

Technology Meet Africa! Wasswa Donald Curates WELCOME TO OUR ONLINE MINI EXPO A VISUAL UPRISING FROM KAMPALA, UGANDA. The passion for this show stems from an overwhelming desire to create positive media for Artists from Africa via Social Media Networks. Working in collaboration with a young, dynamic Ugandan artist from Kampala, Wasswa Donald, together we have chartered out a different course in which to sail. Helped by our various friends around the world, we have tried to break the mould of those favoured few and open up the spectrum to a far greater audience; both from those participating and those observing. Presently, the artistic practitioners within the Continent have little, if any say in their own contemporary cultural development; with the slight exception of Nigeria, North and South Africa. Galleries, Private Collectors, Museums and Art Institutions throughout the western world are defining Africa without asking the Africans. Europe and America are developing highbrow exhibit...