{"id":20565,"date":"2023-05-23T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elsy-s-aesthetic.com\/v1\/portfolio\/lettres-de-verres-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T13:00:28","slug":"el-hadji-sy-painting-performance-politics","status":"publish","type":"cpt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/elsy-s-aesthetic.com\/v1\/portfolio\/el-hadji-sy-painting-performance-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"EL HADJI SY: PAINTING, PERFORMANCE, POLITICS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;&#8220;<\/strong>In the mid-1970s, in a pioneering move, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt began collecting contemporary artworks from Africa. Today it has over 3000 paintings, prints and sculptures in its collection. In 1985, the museum commissioned the artist and curator El Hadji Sy (born 1954 in Dakar) with the task of assembling a new group of works of contemporary art from Senegal, thereby initiating a long-term relationship between Frankfurt and Dakar.Thirty years later, as part of its programmatic investigation into its collection, the Weltkulturen Museum is proud to present a retrospective of El Hadji Sy\u2019s career as a painter and cultural activist whose seminal involvement with the museum preceded the so-called&nbsp;<em>global turn<\/em>&nbsp;of 1989.The exhibition, which is co-curated by Philippe Pirotte, director of the St\u00e4delschule and Portikus, combines El Hadji Sy\u2019s installations and paintings \u2013 sometimes executed with his bare feet or produced on unusual surfaces such as industrial rice sacking or synthetic kite silk \u2013 with his selection of ethnographic objects and artworks by colleagues from Senegal. The exhibition includes loans from international private collections in addition to works from the Weltkulturen Museum.As a founder of the notorious collective Laboratoire AGIT\u2019ART, and a curator of numerous artist-led workshops and studio spaces in Dakar, El Hadji Sy\u2019s interdisciplinary practice represents a ground-breaking position within the context of post-independence Africa.A comprehensive monograph with unseen archival material, essays and interviews by Hans Belting, Cl\u00e9mentine Deliss, Mamadou Diouf, Julia Grosse, Yvette Mutumba, Philippe Pirotte and Manon Schwich is published by diaphanes in English and German.In 2016 the exhibition will be on display at the National Galery Prag (N\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie v Praze) and at Castle Ujazdowski, Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw (Centrum Sztuki Wsp\u00f3lczesnej Zamek Ujazdowskizu).&#8221;Weltkulturen Museum<br>Schaumainkai 29<br>60594 Frankfurt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5th March 2015 \u2013 18th October 2015<\/strong>source :&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weltkulturenmuseum.de\/en\/exhibitions\/past\/?exhibition=el-hadji-sy-painting-performance-politics-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.weltkulturenmuseum.de\/en\/exhibitions\/past\/?exhibition=el-hadji-sy-painting-performance-politics-1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le catalogue de l\u2019exposition&nbsp;<em>El Hadji Sy<\/em>&nbsp;compl\u00e8te ces \u00e9tudes, en se concentrant sur la figure de l\u2019artiste et&nbsp;<em>curator<\/em>&nbsp;s\u00e9n\u00e9galais, El Hadji Sy. Cl\u00e9mentine Deliss, commissaire de l\u2019exposition, renoue ici les liens tiss\u00e9s avec ce dernier dans les ann\u00e9es 1990, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque o\u00f9 elle organisait&nbsp;<em>Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa&nbsp;<\/em>(27 septembre-26 novembre 1995) \u00e0 la Whitechapel Art Gallery de Londres, et lui confiait la section d\u00e9di\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019art au S\u00e9n\u00e9gal. Le catalogue de 2015 compl\u00e8te et enrichit celui de 1995 en faisant d\u00e9couvrir une somme consid\u00e9rable de documents d\u2019archives in\u00e9dits. Ni monographique, ni hagiographique, l\u2019ouvrage se concentre \u00e0 la fois sur l\u2019\u0153uvre de l\u2019artiste, sa d\u00e9marche de performeur et d\u2019activiste, ainsi que sur l\u2019\u00e9volution de la sc\u00e8ne artistique au S\u00e9n\u00e9gal depuis les ann\u00e9es 1970. Proche et \u00e0 la fois critique de la politique culturelle du Pr\u00e9sident Senghor, El Hadji Sy compte parmi les deux seuls artistes s\u00e9n\u00e9galais \u00e0 exposer au mus\u00e9e dynamique fond\u00e9 par L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor en 1966, \u00e0 la suite de Pablo Picasso (1972), ou de Pierre Soulages (1974). Au milieu des ann\u00e9es 1970, il cr\u00e9e avec l\u2019artiste Issa Samb, AGIT\u2019ART, un laboratoire d\u2019exp\u00e9rimentations artistiques qui questionne la notion d\u2019art \u00ab&nbsp;n\u00e8gre&nbsp;\u00bb, et critique le n\u00e9o-colonialisme qu\u2019il y voit associ\u00e9. Il fonde le groupe \u00ab&nbsp;Huit facettes&nbsp;\u00bb dont les exp\u00e9rimentations artistiques dans les villages du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal furent expos\u00e9es \u00e0 la Documenta de Kassel en 2002 et organise diff\u00e9rents&nbsp;<em>workshops<\/em>&nbsp;d\u2019artistes dans les ann\u00e9es 1990, au moment o\u00f9 na\u00eet la Biennale d\u2019art contemporain de Dakar. En 1989, il r\u00e9dige une anthologie de l\u2019art s\u00e9n\u00e9galais publi\u00e9e par le Museum f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde de Francfort, en \u00e9cho \u00e0 la politique d\u2019acquisition d\u2019\u0153uvres d\u2019artistes contemporains africains men\u00e9e par le mus\u00e9e bien avant l\u2019exposition&nbsp;<em>Les Magiciens de la terre,<\/em>&nbsp;ou le tournant impuls\u00e9 par la mondialisation. Par la richesse des documents reproduits et la qualit\u00e9 des textes publi\u00e9s, ce catalogue constitue une contribution importante \u00e0 l\u2019histoire de l\u2019art global.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source :&nbsp;Maureen&nbsp;Murphy, \u00ab&nbsp;<em>El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics<\/em>&nbsp;\u00bb,&nbsp;<em>Critique d\u2019art<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">le cr\u00e9dit @ Petit fils de l&#8217;artiste dans les archives du Weltkulturen Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&#8220;In the mid-1970s, in a pioneering move, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt began collecting contemporary artworks from Africa. 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