Saatchi Gallery will soon present: NEW ART FROM AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA

London in the spring ?

PANGAEA:
NEW ART FROM AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA

2 APRIL 2014 - 31 AUGUST 2014

Selection:
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LEONCE RAPHAEL AGBODJÉLOU

SELECTED WORKS BY LEONCE RAPHAEL AGBODJÉLOU

Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou
Untitled triptych (Demoiselles de Porto-Novo series)

2012

C-print

180 x 130 cm each

Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou
Untitled triptych (Demoiselles de Porto-Novo series)

2012

C-print

180 x 130 cm each

Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou
Untitled (Demoiselles de Porto-Novo series)

2012

C-print

180 x 130 cm

Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou
Untitled (Vodou Series)

2011

C-print

57 x 40 cm

One can imagine photographs looking like this 150 years ago and, had the medium existed then, one thousand years go, when masqueraders began to appear at Yoruba funerals to guide the passage of the deceased to the spirit world.

Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou
Untitled (Vodou Series)

2011

C-print

57 x 40 cm

Much has changed for the Yoruba and their spiritual guides, who now find themselves in the Republic of Benin, and their costumes have probably absorbed a host of influences over the centuries, but Agbodjélou’s clever strategy of placing his subjects against mud brick walls conveys this sense of an essentially unaltered time.

Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou
Untitled (Vodou Series)

2011

C-print

57 x 40 cm

Today the Egungun masqueraders fulfill multiple functions in addition to being guides to the afterworld, performing the ceremony of cleansing the community prior to the rainy season, or delighting crowds with acrobatics and magical displays. But back a century ago, and more, the photographer would have been a white man, an anthropologist or missionary set out to document ‘the primitive, superstitious practices’ of people still back in ‘the childhood of Mankind’.

Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou
Untitled (Vodou Series)

2011

C-print

57 x 40 cm

He would have seen, but he would not have understood. Today, that photographer is a black man, a citizen of Benin and the son of an illustrious photographer, Joseph Moise Agbodjélou (1912-2000). His generation of photographers had been exposed to the medium while fighting for the French in World War II and returned to West Africa to set up their own studios. His son has seen, and he has understood.

Text by William A Ewing

LEONCE RAPHAEL AGBODJÉLOU'S BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1965, Porto-Novo, Benin
Lives and works in Porto-Novo,Benin 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
Jack Bell Gallery, London

2010
From Dahoney to Benin, Jack Bell Gallery, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
Out Of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London

2011
Les Fantomes, Jack Bell Gallery, London 

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SELECTED WORKS BY ABOUDIA ABDOULAYE DIARRASSOUBA

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba
Untitled (Diptych)

2011

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

176 x 237cm (each canvas)

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba
Untitled (Black painting)

2011

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

180 x 400 cm

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba
Daloa 29

2011

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

180 x 400 cm

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba
Untitled (The God)

2011

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

180 x 240 cm

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba
Untitled

2013

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

200 x 400 cm

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba
Untitled

2013

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

125 x 200 cm

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba
Untitled

2013

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

125 x 200 cm

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba
Untitled

2013

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

125 x 200 cm

ABOUDIA ABDOULAYE DIARRASSOUBA'S BIOGRAPHY

Born 1983, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Lives and works in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013
Quitte le Pouvoir, Jack Bell Gallery, London

2011
Jack Bell Gallery, London

2009
Centre Culturel Franco-Guinéen, Conakry, Guinea

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
In All Cases, Nevada Museum of Art, USA

2010
Arkadi, Centre Culturel Français, Abidjan
Lion’s Art, Abidjan
BICICI Bank, Abidjan

2009
Arkadi, Centre Culturel Français, Abidjan
Centre Culturel Franco-Guinéen, Conakry, Guinea
Pinceaux d’Afrique, Stockholm, Sweden

2007
Ivory Coast Palais de la Culture, Abidjan 

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SELECTED WORKS BY ANTONIO MALTA CAMPOS

Antonio Malta Campos
Things

2007

Acrylic on canvas

230 x 360 cm

Antonio Malta Campos
Black & Blue

2007

Acrylic on canvas

230 x 360 cm

Antonio Malta Campos
Figures in Red

2004

Oil on canvas

230 x 360 cm

Antonio Malta Campos
Figures in Red #2

2004

Oil on canvas

230 x 360 cm

ANTONIO MALTA CAMPOS'S BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1961, São Paulo, Brazil
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
Antonio Malta e Erika Verzutti, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (curator: José Augusto Ribeiro)

2007
Antonio Malta, Galeria Virgilio, São Paulo

2004
Formas e Cores, Galeria Virgilio, São Paulo

2000 
Antonio Malta, CEMIG, Belo Horizonte

1999 
Antonio Malta, Galeria SESC Paulista, São Paulo

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1998 
Além do Arco-Íris, FAAP, São Paulo (curated by Per Hovdenakk)

1987
Olho&Óleo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

1985
Apto 13, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (with Maína Costales). 

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