Romuald Hazoumé (born 1962), one of Africa's leading visual artists, has worked with many media throughout his career, but it is for his assemblage-masks that he is best known. These masks consist of discarded oil cans ubiquitous objects in Benin, which Hazoumé repositions to resemble faces. The use of oil cans implicitly criticizes the presence of multinational oil companies in west Africa.

Romuald Hazoumé

Arts & Photography

Magnin, André

Kissane, Seán

Juncosa, Enrique

Konatè, Yacouba

Houghton, Gerard

Individual Artists

Irish Museum of Modern Art

The Political Substance of Wood. Jems Koko Bi (b. Sinfra, Côte d'Ivoire, 1966; lives and works in Kaarst, Germany, Dakar, and Abidjan) is world-renowned for the monumental wood sculptures he creates using a machine saw. This book juxtaposes his most recent body of works with the large-format woodcuts of HAP Grieshaber (b. Rot an der Rot, Germany, 1909; d. Eningen unter Achalm, 1981). Although the two artists never met, their oeuvres are characterized by similar themes, values, and materials. The central concern is the fate of the forests and its momentous political and social implications: Grieshaber's woodcuts articulate his principled opposition to the predatory exploitation of nature in the 1970s--an issue that is more relevant than ever today in light of the climate crisis and the Fridays for Future movement. Koko Bi's figural groups bring this tradition of political art into our time, making a global and universally compelling case for a sustainable husbandry of our resources. Jems Koko Bi studied at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l'Action Culturelle (INSAAC), Abidjan, and the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts.

Born In The Woods: Im Wald Geboren

Altmann, Susanne

History & Criticism

Confronting contemporary African art’s awkward coexistence with earlier African art as “ethnographic artifact,” Geo-Graphics celebrates the flourishing of African art on the international circuit, while simultaneously asserting its ancestry and critiquing the valorization of heritage. David Adjaye’s photographs of African capitals and an examination of contemporary African art centers further contextualize the continent’s recent cultural transformations.

Geo-Graphics: A Map of Art Practices in Africa, Past and Present

Rahier, Jean

Verswijver, Gustaaf

Volper, Julien

Ndiaye, Ken

Baeke, Viviane

Schaub, Didier

Silvana Editorale

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