On June 25 at GoetheOnMain, Johannesburg, opens LOoObHy n.50, the personal exhibition of Pascale Marthine Tayou, the first artist involved in the Cshirt project.
Pascale Marthine Tayou is an important figure within contemporary African art. His work reminds us that identity is always defined in relation to various different interconnected relationships. The Cameroonian local, who now resides in Europe, has actively fought the ideological burden often imposed on African art and artists. He imaginetively deconstructs and rearranges expectations, as much as the images and objects whose lives are forever altered in mosaics, assemblages and installations.
"LOoObHy n.50" is a site-specific installation at GoetheOnMain of Tayou's new work. The first LOoObHy was produced in Cameroon in the mid-1990s, and this exhibition follows the many in the series. The show is made up of three primary works that variously deals with everyday realities in Johannesburg. The first is an installation of decontextualised and re-imagined security gates, the second a dramatic reinteroretation of the disply of advertisments for lodgings found in Yeoville. The third explores play areas, pointing out how these are defined and limited by certain historic trajectories.
"LOoObHy n.50" follows hot on the heels of Tayou's partecipation in "Who Knows Tomorrow" at the prestigious National Gallery in Berlin, and opens on 25 June at 6:30 pm at GoetheOnMain. The exhibition will run until 4 August 2010.
Please see www.goethe.de/johannesburg for more information on GoetheOnMain or Goethe-Institut South Africa. For more on "Pascale Marthine Tayou: LOoObHy n.50", please contact Kaj/Cara at pro@johannesburg.goethe.org
This article has been cured by Galleria Continua
