First insight, in pictures.
New works by Jon One, Valérie John, Nathalie Leroy Fiévee, Jay Ramier, Shuck One
20th century artists include: Wifredo Lam, Beauford Delaney (a friend of Baldwin's), Ernest Breleur, Skunder Boghossian, Christian Lattier, Demas Nwoko...
Lots of them from Haiti, Martinique, Côte d'Ivoire... And a few Americans, of course, like Faith Ringgold.
From the creation of the magazine 'Présence Africaine' to that of 'Revue noire', Paris noir traces the presence and influence of black artists in France between the 1950s and 2000s.
It highlights one hundred and fifty artists, from Africa to the Americas via the Caribbean, whose works have rarely been shown in France.
During the press visit, this Tuesday:
"Black Paris offers a vibrant immersion in a cosmopolitan Paris, a place of resistance and creation," the curators said, "that gave rise to a wide variety of practices, from a new awareness of identity to the search for trans-cultural artistic languages."
From international to Afro-Atlantic abstractions via surrealism and free figuration, this historical voyage reveals the importance of artists of African descent in the redefinition of Modernisms and Post-modernisms.
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Meeting a British friend: Photographer Johny Pitts, author of the book 'Afropeans'. More with him soon!
Always the view...
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Black Paris
Artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance 1950 – 2000
March 19th – June 30th 2025 Centre Pompidou | Galerie 1 | Level 6
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Update
My article here:
https://www.rfi.fr/en/culture/20250322-paris-noir-exhibition-showcases-work-made-in-french-capital-by-black-artists
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