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REVIEW:
African Art Now introduces only a few of the more than 6,000 pieces of African art that are in the Jean Pigozzi collection now called the Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC). The online exhibit is divided into three sections: Apartheid and Africa, Kinshasa and Artists and Biographies. The first two sections provide background information. The third section, Artists and Biographies, is the meat of the site featuring the twenty-eight artists and their works. It includes brief biographies, photographs of the artists and examples of their work. The various works cover everything from social conflict such as Willie Bester’s powerful collages influenced by the experiences of apartheid to Monsengwo Kejwamfi’s (Moke) animated compositions of street scenes and local dandies called Sapeurs. Interestingly, only two women are featured: Seni Awa Camara whose sculpture reflects daily life in Senegal as well as her heritage and Esther Mahlangu whose brightly colored murals and paintings reflect the traditional designs of her ancestors. |
