Africa Comics photo gallery
The exhibition presents a selection of boards arrived for the “Africa e Mediterraneo Award for the best unpublished comics strip by African author”. Participants face topics relevant to the three sections: “stories of migration”, “human rights”, “free subject”. The exhibition includes full comics stories, with legends containing abstract of the stories and author’s presentation.
The availability of comics coming from all over Africa is an extraordinary chance for people willing to understand African modernity through the creativity this continent expresses.
"I bring up my Nigerian experience to address this extraordinary exhibition of Africa Comics as an event of cultural importance. This exhibition can teach us many things, not least of which is that it is a sure indication that the remarkable proliferation of genres of contemporary visual culture from Africa is no longer a local phenomenon, but an integral part of the expanding global public sphere. [...] We encounter a multiplicity of comics styles (from political cartoons to pop-cultural formats), brought together from Francophone, Anglophone and Lusophone African countries and written in either those languages or in African languages such as Swahili and Tigrinya, in full recognition that signs of visual production in Africa are not arbitrary, but constantly constituted as modes of discursive practice that encompass so much more than the graphic mark."
Okwui Enwezor
Catalogue Africa Comics, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 2006
Okwui Enwezor is an internationally recognized scholar and curator of contemporary African art, Artistic Director of Documenta XI, in Kassel, Germany in 2002.
info:
Africa e Mediterraneo
Tel: +39 051 840166
Fax: +39 051 6790117
progetti@africaemediterraneo.it
The exhibition is composed by around 20 pictures 50x70 cm e 70x100 cm, with wood frames, unbreakable crilex, narrative captions and introductive panel.
Frames can be hang on walls or display panels. The minimum necessary space is 45 linear mq. No special equipment is required.
two people: 6-8 hours