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Alle berichten van SmartGuy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba
6 September – 25 October 2009
Tue - Sun: 12-19 pm. Thu till 21pm.
Opening Saturday 5 September at 19:00
***** Extra City presents the photographic project Avenue Patrice Lumumba by Guy Tillim in collaboration with Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren, Brussels, a few months before the 50th anniversary of Congolese independence from Belgium.
Avenue Patrice Lumumba is an examination of modern history in Africa through its colonial and post-colonial architectural heritage. It travels through numerous African countries, including Mozambique, Angola and The Democratic Republic of Congo.
Lumumba was one of the first elected African leaders of modern times, winning the Congo election after independence. Only weeks after his speech at the independence celebrations in Léopoldville, in which he militated against the West's idea of neo-colonial order in the presence of the Belgian King Baudouin, Lumumba was assassinated. In February 2002, the Belgian government apologised to the Congolese people, finally admitting "an irrefutable portion of responsibility in the events that led to the death of Lumumba.”
South African based Guy Tillim has received a number of awards and grants for his photography. These include the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2005 and the first Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in 2006. Avenue Patrice Lumumba has recently been exhibited at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris and the Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, among others.
- Locatie
- Extra City
- Adres
- Tulpstraat 79 — 2060 - Antwerpen
- Regio
- Antwerpen
- Website
- http://www.extracity.org/en/projects/view/48
- Begindatum
- 8-9-09
- Einddatum
- 13-9-09
- Prijs
- Gratis evenement
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