Art Of The Day Weekly
#481 - from 13 July 2017 to 13 September 2017
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, L'Endeuillé, 10x15 cm.
A selection from Africa
PARIS - Business man Jean Pigozzi, the heir of the Simca automobile dynasty, asked André Magnin, the associated curator of the pioneer exhibition Les Magiciens de la terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1989, to take twenty years of constant travelling to Africa to dig out the most original self-taught artists South of the Sahara. The result is remarkable. A coherent and impressive group, from one tip of the continent to the other, that combines artists who are now well established such as Chéri Samba, Frédéric Bruky Bouabré, and Pascale Martine Thayou, and others who are still in the background, but who use materials and colors with great, contagious jubilation.
• Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, from 26 April to 4 September 2017. Catalogue Dilecta, 272 p., €40.