Category: Painting
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Dialogues on Memory: M’Barek Bouhchichi and Pascal Blanchard on French Colonialism, Forgotten Figures, and Black Moroccan Portraiture
At the closing of the exhibition BODY OF MEMORY at Dagoma-Harty Gallery, artist M’Barek Bouhchichi and historian Pascal Blanchard engaged in a conversation on French colonialism and Black Moroccan portraiture, focusing on questions of visibility and memory.
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Thao Nguyen Phan: “The Sun Falls Silently”
“History is written by the winners and when the North won the war in 1975, they rewrote history,” says Thao Nguyen Phan. In “The Sun Falls Silently”, she transforms this trauma into paintings, light sculptures, projections, and films that gesture toward a more hopeful future.
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Grillo Meets Toorop: Painting, Stained Glass and Religion as a Symbiotic Relationship
Contemporary Nigerian artist Yusuf Grillo is a highly influential figure in Nigerian art history. Born in Lagos in 1934, he is celebrated for his inventive use of color, especially his signature shades of deep blue (a reference to adire and resist-dye textiles used in Nigeria), and for his expressive interpretations of Yoruba culture. His iconic…
プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot 