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Surpassing the traditional art history lessons taught in Western schools, the main objective of the exhibition Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier is to go beyond..
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Kemang Wa Lehulere, History Will Break Your Heart
Alice Inggs
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Kemang Wa Lehulere—just named Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” for 2017—is not driven by a nostalgic impulse; rather, the artist’s critical examination of history is an indictment of the ways it is repeated.
In History Will Break Your Heart, the artist's first touring exhibition after his 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist win for Visual Art, Wa Lehulere works away at the veneer of a polished national history, revealing both its mechanisms and its missing parts.
In History Will Break Your Heart, the artist's first touring exhibition after his 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist win for Visual Art, Wa Lehulere works away at the veneer of a polished national history, revealing both its mechanisms and its missing parts.
In a self-described “protest against forgetting,” Wa Lehulere exhibits a conceptual conversation between himself and marginalised black South African artists Gladys Mgudlandlu (c. 1920s–1979) and Ernest Mancoba (1904–2002), and writer RRR Dhlomo (1906–1971).
A previous exhibition,
To Whom It May Concern, focused on exiled South African writer Nat Nakasa (1937