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Fesman2009

Contemporary Arts
art_contemporainWith the inauguration of the African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007, the successful Africa Remix exhibition in Paris, London and Tokyo, not to mention the inclusion of the Dakar, Bamako and most recently Luanda biennales in the art circuit, beyond the diversity of its artists’ often cosmopolitan careers, over the past decade contemporary African art – which questions its own roots and future of the continent as much as it shatters the view that the western world takes of itself – has become an essential part of the world scene.

The handful of major exhibitions each year which propose works from the African world, along with the acquisitions of private collectors, foundations and public institutions, have made it possible to understand the relationship, tormented as it may be, between present-day works and ancient art collections.

The interest generated by contemporary African art has turned the eyes of the western world to the African continent. But Diaspora artists are also answering the call to exhibit in their land of origin, encouraged by the dynamism of the increasingly numerous and varied artistic events that are taking place there. Artists from the four corners of the world each using their own particular mode of expression, come and describe how they have already reinvented, sometimes painfully, relations with their living cultural heritage.

Fesman 2009

The official FESMAN 2009 competition has been called upon to present works by the artists who have been nominated by their respective countries, museum institutions or by the exhibition committee, in accordance with previously studied and defined aesthetic and historic criteria. An international selection committee will undertake the definitive choice of works – paintings and sculptures – which will enter the competition. The exhibition of works by internationally famous guest artists is intended to illustrate the eminent contributions of black artists, from all continents, to contemporary visual creation.