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Afronova
Henri Vergon (surnamed Nkosi Sabine CessouArt contemporain: disparition du fondateur d’Afronova, Henri Vergon ''Rfi.fr'', 30 May 2020) (6 August 1968 in Brussels - 15 May 2020) was a South African art dealer based in Johannesburg. Biography Born in Brussels, Vergon graduated from EDHEC Business School and worked in both the United States and Paris before joining the French Institute of South Africa in Johannesburg as a cultural officer in 1995. He witnessed the emergence of the post-apartheid art movement, he became passionate about panafrican arts. Garance ClementsJohannesburg, le nouveau spot arty ''Lefigaro.fr'', 19 October 2016 Vergon founded the Afronova gallery in Newtown, Johannesburg in 2005. Afronova was originally a physical gallery exhibiting modern and contemporary works. Notable exhibitions included Malick Sidibé (Mali, 2007, the first time the artist was exhibited outside of Mali), Ricardo Rangel (Mozambique, 2008), Gerard Sekoto (South Africa, 2008) and Billie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malick Sidibé
Malick Sidibé (1935 – 14 April 2016) was a Malian photographer noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. Sidibé had a long and fruitful career as a photographer in Bamako, Mali, and was a well-known figure in his community. In 1994 he had his first exhibition outside of Mali and received much critical praise for his carefully composed portraits. Sidibé's work has since become well known and renowned on a global scale.Touré, A. Chab"Midnight in Bamako: In search of the late Malick Sidibé and the rhythmic roots of his legendary photographs" ''Aperture'', Issue 224. His work was the subject of a number of publications and exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. In 2007, he received a Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale,Van Gelder, Lawrence (11 June 2007)"Malian Photographer Honored at Biennale" ''The New York Times''. becoming both the first photographer and the first African so recognized.BBC St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Zangewa
Billie Zangewa (born in 1973 in Blantyre, Malawi) is a half-Malawian, half-South African artist who hand sews silk fabrics to create collage tapestries, and who now lives in Johannesburg. Since 2004, her art has featured in international exhibitions including at the Paris Art Fair at the Grand Palais in Paris. Zangewa's work is autobiographical and centralizes Black femininity and everyday domesticity and motherhood. Her artistic approach is indicative of the artist's expressing resistance to the oppression she faces through self-love. Materials Billie Zangewa works primarily with raw silk offcuts in intricate hand-stitched collages, creating figurative compositions that explore her intersectional identity in the contemporary context and challenge the historical stereotyping, objectification and exploitation of the black female body. Working in a flat, colourful style, she depicts narratives concerned with experience: both personal and universal. These narratives do not make g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EDHEC Business School (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales Du Nord)
EDHEC Business School (french: Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord) is a French grandes écoles business school with campus locations in: Lille, France; Nice, France; Paris, France; London, UK; and Singapore. EDHEC offers its flagship Master in Management, MSc International Finance, MBA and EMBA programs, specialised MSc programs, PhD program and executive education. In 2019, EDHEC had 8,600 students enrolled in traditional graduate and undergraduate programmes, 245 exchange and double-degree agreements with many academic institutions and a network of more than 40,000 alumni in over 125 countries. EDHEC holds the triple accreditation from EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA and ranks among the top-10 European Business Schools according to the Financial Times. History EDHEC Business School was founded in 1906 by entrepreneurs from the North of France. Motte Duthoit, leading textile manufacturer and mayor of Roubaix, France, purchased the land known as “La campagne” on which ED ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Rangel
Ricardo Achiles Rangel (15 February 1924 – 11 June 2009) was a Mozambican photojournalist and photographer. Biography Early life Rangel was born in the city of Lourenço Marques, now known as Maputo, capital of Mozambique, in February 1924. His father was a Greek businessman and Rangel was of African, European and Chinese descent. Rangel was raised by his African grandmother in the impoverished suburbs surrounding Lourenço Marques, while he visited his parents in the outlying provinces. Career Rangel's photography career began during the early 1940s by developing pictures in a private studio. Interest in taking photographs soon followed. Rangel was hired as the first non-white employee to join the Mozambican newspaper '' Noticias de Tarde'' in 1952, where he worked as a photographer. Rangel moved to ''Noticias de Tardes sister publication, ''Notícias'', in 1956. He next became the head photographer at the Lourenço Marques daily newspaper '' A Tribuna'', from 1960 until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Sekoto
Gerard Sekoto (9 December 1913 – 20 March 1993), was a South African artist and musician. He is recognised as a pioneer of urban culture, urban black art and social realism. His work was exhibited in Paris, Stockholm, Venice, Washington, D.C., Washington, and Senegal, as well as in South Africa. Early life Sekoto was born on 9 December 1913 at the Lutheran Mission Station in Botshabelo, Mpumalanga, Botshabelo, near Middelburg, Mpumalanga, Middelburg, Eastern Transvaal Province, Transvaal (now known as Mpumalanga). He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, a leading member of the new Christian converts. Sekoto was schooled at Wonderhoek, which was established by his father, a priest and teacher. As the son of a missionary, he experienced music as a part of his life and was introduced to the family Pump organ, harmonium at an early age. As a child, Sekoto would draw with chalk, paper, and colored pencils. His art skills emerged in his teenage years, when he attended the Diocesan Teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
