Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier
Fondation Louis Vuitton
8 avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Bois de Boulogne
75116 Paris
April 26 — September 4, 2017
Within the scope of contemporary art, Africa continues to be the country that has been overlooked. Since the end of Apartheid in 1994, the art communities within the sub-Saharan countries have evolved and flourished in relative obscurity. Only a handful of artists from South Africa have propelled to international recognition. As a result the works of Jane Alexander, David Goldblatt, William Kentridge, David Koloane and Sue Williams have drawn the attention of the international art world to the historic struggle of this region. In 1989 Jean Pigozzi collaborated with André Magnin to piece together the largest collection of African art, consisting entirely of non-market contemporary art. All of the artists in Pigozzi’s collection remained marginal and unrecognized on an international scale, but continued to develop new ideas in their studios. On April 26th, the Fondation Louis Vuitton opened “Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier,” a four-month exhibition that is presented as three complimentary shows “The Insiders,” “Being There,” and “Africa: A Selection from the Collection of the Fondation Louis Vuitton.”
