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Author Archives: GalleriaKlik
2024 Black History Month: South Africa Calling
Coinciding with the UK’s 2024 Black History Month are the exhibitions of South African photographers Zanele Muholi and Ernest Cole. Over 50 years apart both address discrimination—emphasizing the ongoing struggles for emancipation, highlighting both past and present challenges in the fight against racial, political, cultural and social injustice. Continue reading
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Tagged apartheid, Autograph, Autograph ABP, Black History Month, Civil Rights Movement, history, LGBTQ, nelson-mandela, politics, social photography, South Africa
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Who exactly are America’s Black artists?
Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history. So reads every promotional material for Tate Modern’s Soul of a Nation exhibition. How does being an … Continue reading
Norman Lewis, Processional, 1965: A Not So Black and White Perspective
Processional (1965) by Norman Lewis is just one of the many engaging artworks in the Soul of a Nation exhibition at the Tate Modern, London. While being one amongst the many, Processional stands out as uniquely striking in its simplicity. … Continue reading
Documenta 14: Parthenon of Books
Marta Minujín’s Parthenon of Books is easily the centrepiece of Documenta 14, the 2017 instalment of the five-yearly Documenta held in Kassel, Germany. The Parthenon of Books qualifies as the centrepiece because it stands out physically, as an idea and … Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, Documenta 14, freedom of expression, Marta Minujín, Parthenon of Books
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DocumentA 13 and Memories of the Arab Spring
In 2012, starting with the Arab Spring, the ever so political Croatian artist and Documenta veteran Sanja Iveković, stepped back in time to pay homage to political martyrs and social revolutionaries in Documenta 13, and will be showing in Documenta 14 too. Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, Che Guevara, Jan Palach, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Mohamed Bouazizi, Rosa Luxemburg, Sanja Iveković, Tank Man, Victor Jara, Walter Benjamin
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Countdown to Documenta 14
I am off the Document 14! This is a great treat, especially as I had pleasure of attending DocumentA 13 in 2012. It is amazing to have the opportunity to attend consecutive Documenta instalments, which occur once every five years. … Continue reading
Gele ati Asọ́-Oke Exhibition: Aiming for the Footsteps of Success
The Gele ati Asọ́-Oke exhibition is aiming to follow in the footsteps of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Lagos’s 2014 crowdfunded publication of a monograph on Nigerian Photographer J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere. J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere along with Benedy and Sons, … Continue reading
The origins of the label “Yoruba photography”
Yoruba photography is not a new term. It is at least five decades old. The anthropologist Stephen Sprague as far back as 1979 used the label Yoruba photography in his seminal academic article on the Yoruba people and the unique … Continue reading
Look Van Gogh, it’s Ofosu without paint, brush or canvas!
GalleriaClic is excited to promote Edward Ofosu’s first solo exhibition of essentially iPad art. One of Ofosu’s artistic heroes is David Hockney. And why should Ofosu not admire Hockney, after all, the pioneering artist not only experimented with iPad art, … Continue reading
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Cai Guo-Qiang: The artist behind Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red?
Could the Chinese artist, Cai Guo-Qiang be the originator of the look and visual idea of Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red?