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RSS FeedsWallach Art Gallery, Columbia University presents `After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art`
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16 august 2019 05:50:56

 
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University presents `After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art`
(Artdaily.org)
 


Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery is presenting After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art, on view from June 15 through October 13, 2019. This exhibition is the first in North America to explore aesthetic responses to the history of socialism in Africa and its aftermath. After the End is curated by Álvaro Luís Lima, a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia’s Department of Art History and Archaeology, where he specializes in modern and contemporary art from Africa. Beginning this fall, he will join the faculty of the School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida in Gainesville. After first gaining their independence from colonial powers throughout the mid 20th century, young African nations underwent a wave of upheaval brought on by the end of the Cold War, including the toppling of socialist governments. The need to reimagine national narratives gave rise to a generation of artists seeking


 
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