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Kendell Geers

AnimistikAktivist


  • Fonds Mercator/ Mercatorfonds
  • by Jens Hoffman & Zoë Strother. Voorwoord: Kendell Geers.
The work of South African-born Belgian artist Kendell Geers is explored here in the context of the ways it is influenced by avant-garde traditions and traditional African art.

ISBN 9789462301900 | E | HB
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Publisher Fonds Mercator/ Mercatorfonds
ISBN 9789462301900
Author(s) Jens Hoffman & Zoë Strother. Voorwoord: Kendell Geers.
Publication date May 2018
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 297 x 240 mm
Illustrations 200 col. & bw ill.
Pages 128
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Description

South African-born, Belgian artist Kendell Geers, changed his date of birth to MAY 1968 as a performance, effectively giving birth to himself as a work of art. His artistic practice weaves together African Animism, European Mysticism and Socio-Political Activism with humor, irony and contradiction. He uses his identity as a White African like a key to unlock and critique our understanding and reading of history, art and language. This book, which focuses on his works created between 1988 and the present, will look at the influence of avant-garde traditions from Dada and Surrealism to Punk, intertwined with the powerful legacy of traditional African art on his work. Spiritually charged, politically poignant and socially engaged, the work cannot be categorized as either European or African, but is rather a prolonged metaphysical dialogue between cultures, archetypal signs and sacred symbols. Included are works in a diversity of media, including painting, sculpture, performance, photography, installation and conceptual art.

The work of South African-born Belgian artist Kendell Geers is explored here in the context of the ways it is influenced by avant-garde traditions and traditional African art.


Jens Hoffmann is Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Director of Exhibitions at the Jewish Museum New York
Zoë Strother is Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University.


Né en Afrique du Sud, l'artiste belge Kendell Geers a modifié sa date de naissance en MAI 1968, performance destinée à donner naissance à sa propre personne en tant qu'oeuvre d'art. Sa pratique artistique combine animisme africain, mysticisme européen et activisme sociopolitique avec humour, ironie et sens de la contradiction. Il se sert de son identité d'Africain blanc comme d'une clé pour débloquer et critiquer notre compréhension et notre interprétation de l'histoire, de l'art et du langage. Cet ouvrage, axé sur ses créations de 1988 au moment présent, détaille l'influence exercée sur son oeuvre par les traditions avant-gardistes, de Dada et du surréalisme au punk, en combinaison avec le puissant héritage de l'art traditionnel africain. D'une grande densité spirituelle, cette oeuvre, politiquement poignante et socialement engagée, ne peut pas être catégorisée comme européenne ou africaine. Elle constitue plutôt un dialogue métaphysique prolongé entre cultures, signes archétypaux et symboles sacrés. L'ouvrage inclut des oeuvres réalisées dans divers médias, dont la peinture, la sculpture, la performance, la photographie, l'installation et l'art conceptuel.

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