Keyword : Ethnicolor (exhibit)
Ethnicolor, First Contemporary Art Exhibit
Jean Loup Pivin
My acquaintance and friend Bruno Tilliette then editor in chief of the magazine "Autrement" (other Way) and working to publish a special issue related to "Africolor" event lets me meeting Simon Njami. He was 25 years old, his first successful novel pocket (not in paperback) 'Coffin Ed and Cie" (a parody of Chester Himes novels), drinking tea as me, success on his lips, intelligent and so proud and contemptuous as he was sympathetic.
Read more...At the Beginning, "In Black City" exhibit
Jean Loup Pivin
« Dans la ville noire » (In Black City) is a project exhibition for the Bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, showing the modernity of Africa as a giant and disheveled form, with a catalog number 1 magazine Revue Noire. "In the black city" will not do. But the first issue of the Revue Noire magazine released in May 1991.
To be continued…
Of Impossible Comment
Jean Loup Pivin
Because the writing was intended primarily literary - as a form - few have understood the challenge that contained the form itself of Revue Noire. As if those who "read" Revue Noire could not read the simple fact that the forms without comments indicated in themselves the challenge of the comment : today we understand better the choices of many curators who need talkative artists to understand their works. Hence, over time, the strengthening of our doubts about the critical capacity of art history to look at contemporary expressions of other worlds. It's not because Western history of Western art was dismissed that it was also denied, unequivocally knowing that our own eyes were those fed by this Western history.
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