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Modern African Art Critic to Speak at Clark - September 12, 2007
WILLIAMSTOWN - Chika O. Okeke-Agulu, artist, critic, curator and activist in contemporary art and the African modernist movement, will present the fall 2007 Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor Lecture "Dissecting the Rainbow Nation: The Photomontage of Candice Breitz" on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 5:30 p.m. This talk is free and held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
In this lecture, Okeke-Agulu will consider a body of work, "The Rainbow Series" (1996), by South African artist Candice Breitz. Consisting of about 14 photomontages depicting spliced images of black South African women from the Ndebele group and bodies of white women culled from pornographic magazines, this work elicited intense controversy because of what was perceived by critics as its re-enactment of historical and apartheid-era violence on the black South African body.
Apart from subjecting criticisms of the work to rigorous critique, Okeke-Agulu situates the series within the traditions of modernist photomontage and more crucially the lecture shows how this work constitutes a potent statement about post-Apartheid South African body politic.
Okeke-Agulu is assistant professor of art history at Pennsylvania State University. He has been extensively published in such scholarly journals as African Arts, The Eye: A Journal of Contemporary Art (senior and founding editor), Glendora Review, and NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art (founding editor). He is co-editor with Obiora Udechukwu of "Ezumeezu: Essays on Nigerian Art and Architecture: A Festschrift for Demas Nwoko" (2006). His forthcoming book, co-written with Okwui Enwezor, is "Contemporary African Art Since 1980."
Okeke-Agulu has been named a Clark Fellow for the spring 2008 semester. While a fellow, Okeke-Agulu will pursue his book project "Compound Consciousness: The Modern Art Movement in Nigeria, 1957-1967," a study connecting the development of artistic modernism in Nigeria with the cultural implication of political decolonization.
The Clark Art Institute is one of only a few art museums in the nation that is also a major research and academic center, with an international fellowship program and regular conferences, symposia, and colloquia, and an important art research library. The Clark, together with Williams College, jointly sponsors one of the nation's leading Master of Arts programs in art history, which has been part of the professional development of a significant number of directors of art museums, curators and scholars.
The Clark is at 225 South St. in Williamstown. The galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 to 5. Admission through Oct. 31 is $12.50 for adults, free for children 18 and younger, members, and students with valid ID. For more information, call 413-458-2303 or visit www.clarkart.edu |
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