"The role of contemporary art in Africa and the world: the role of local structures. This theme met last Tuesday, artists, art critics and art professionals at the Charles Donwahi, the Deux Plateaux. A heated debate allowed each other to have a clear the role each must play in the emergence of a truly national art and African.
define the outline of a polysemic term understood and interpreted differently by the creators. Contemporary art. That's what it is, it was not easy to elucidate, on Tuesday in the Charles Donwahi to Cocody Deux Plateaux. According to Webster's is contemporary which is the same time, which is our time. Contemporary art, so to speak, is apprehended as a whole works time and a place.
Contemporary art by artists and professionals
Professor Yacouba Konate, gallery owner and art critic, president of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), noted the subjective nature of the notion. For him, it is the size of a work which it is contemporary or not. That is to say what they watch and how to show it. "Often, just a staging for a work that is traditional or contemporary. There is the side of the stage design. What matters is not the convenient nature of the thing, but it is the ability to go as far as possible with his own creative power, "he said. In sum, a freedom given to artists who can combine sculpture, paintings, photos, videos or what they want. In the same vein, Simon Njami, curator and art critic international special guest, instead of defining contemporary art, and focused instead on a contemporary artist says. "A contemporary artist is one with whom I can have a drink after exposure," he simplified. But did he questioned, what is it that something is being done now is it today? At this level, he thinks that the sensitivity which emerges to face such a work, will play for many. "There may be people who were born the same year as me. Which are the same age as me, but that I do not contemporaries. Beyond semantics, the contemporary is something that speaks to me. This can be a sculpture, painting or installation, "he clarified. Faced with so many freedoms offered by the concept, the public has raised points of shadow. If the notion of contemporary art is so subjective, how is the selection works for exhibitions around the world and other biennials. Clearly, that recognizes that? Who does what? How should he enter the mold to be recognized as a contemporary designer? At this level, the answer may seem arbitrary, however, is clear. "There is no kind of objectivity in my choices," said Mr. Njami, curator. He said the special collections is that each commissioner is free to look for works that he feels. "There are many ways of seeing. There is not one that is better than the other. Often we do like that sound. This is not because something makes noise it is better than others, "he said. Hence the role that should have structures to promote art in existence. "We need people here know what is happening here. Doing so would be a good fight. Because it is much better armed if one defines oneself as if one was defined by someone else. " Calix Angama, promotion director at the Ministry of Culture and Francophonie has guided his thinking on the need for synergies between structures and actors in the local system.
A museum of art Contemporary
The issue of building a museum of contemporary art, however, returned. For the director of the Rotunda of Contemporary Arts, Yacouba Konate, a museum or institution of another shape may be a memory for our children. Because he was convinced that we must fill our mental space of personalities that made the heyday of the art home. In the sense that an artist does not only by what he does. But also by his status. "The Ivorians must be ashamed that there are no incentive structures in place. Without support, we can not organize anything. In about art, we are not recent, has pestered Augustine Kassi artist. He denounced the inertia of the ministry. Making his contribution, Eric Agnéro journalist, said that the issue of aid to art remains on hold because those who run state agencies, responsible for the promotion of art, have not been educated in the sense . "A minister or a leader who has spent his life without seeing a show, without drawing at school, can not appreciate a work of art," he thinks. To him, we must introduce art into the habits of people "Art is trade. As such, the creation of a socio-political framework conducive to business should be put in place. " A tax exemption for purchases of works of art would be a contribution to the promotion of local creations and an element of attraction for foreign buyers, he said, going in the same straight line that the photographer Franck Fanny. In sum, the debate was lively and varied. He has to know what the creators believe how African and what they share. A forum that has fostered a convergence of views. "We must stop complaining and arrange to bring people home. The instances are there, they have to be anime. We must get together for Africa to move, "said Simon Njami.
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