100% Africa. Contemporary African Art

12.10.2006 - 02.2007

Guggenheim-Museum Bilbao, Bilbao / España

This exhibition presents 25 contemporary African artists who live and work in sub-Saharan Africa. Painters, draftsmen, photographers, sculptors and video artists from several generations are featured, including artists of international renown like portrait artist Seydou Keïta, painters Chéri Samba, George Lilanga, and Richard Onyango, the encyclopedist and universalist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, the unclassifiable Bodys Isek Kingelez and Romuald Hazoumé, as well as younger, highly promising artists such as Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Titos Mabota, Pathy Tshindele, and Calixte Dakpogan, in an installation by leading Italian designers Ettore Sottsass and by Marco Palmieri, a prominent member of Sottsass’s team....
(Presseinformation: guggenbeim-bilbao.es)