Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami, Fla.),.) Search this
Author:
Biennale di Venezia (58th : 2019 : Venice, Italy)) organizer Search this
Physical description:
187 pages chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Biography
Expositions
Biographies
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition
Place:
Illinois
Chicago
United States
États-Unis
Date:
2020
Notes:
"Published ... in conjunction with the related exhibitions ... AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, November 27, 2018-March 24, 2019; and AFRICOBRA: Nation Time, presented as an official Collateral Event of the 58th Venice Biennale, May 11-November 4, 2019"--Colophon
Includes an essay by Leslie Guy
Includes work by artists: Sherman Beck, Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Omar Lama, Carolyn Mims Lawrence, Nelson Stevens, and Gerald Williams
Piurchased from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
Contents:
Foreword / Chana Budgazad Sheldon -- Curator's acknowledgments / Jeffreen M. Hayes -- Love letter / Jeffreen M. Hayes -- Blk space as home / Jeffreen M. Hayes -- AFRICOBRA: messages to the people. Voices from the community ; Snapshots of Miami resistance, 1960s-1980s -- AfriCOBRA: the foundation of a black aesthetic / Leslie Guy -- Black womanhood front and center: leading in AfriCOBRA / Jeffreen M. Hayes ; AfriCOBRA in the studio, 1969 -- AFRICOBRA: nation time. Radically black in Venice / Jeffreen M. Hayes -- Joy in blackness: opening receptions
Summary:
AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) was founded on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 by a collective of young Black artists, whose interest in Transnational Black Aesthetics led them to create one of the most distinctive visual voices in 20th-century American art. The key characteristics of what we now consider the classic AFRICOBRA look -- vibrant, 'cool-ade' colors, bold text, shine and positive images of Black people -- were essential to everyday life in the community from which this movement emerged. It is a movement with roots in the soil, streets, classrooms, studios and living rooms of the South Side of Chicago, yet its influence has extended around the world. This survey represents the first major appraisal of AFRICOBRA's work in Europe and builds on the exhibition AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People, which premiered at MOCA North Miami during Art Basel Miami 2018
