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Galerie Lumières d'Afrique

Ariane — 2012-02-04T14:52:38Z

New gallery Opening : we have moved to a better location. You are
invited to the

vernissage and opening cocktail reception on 17th February 18.00 - 22.00h

Re-opening Exhibition 17/02 - 31-03

We have now moved to a better location located only a few meters away
from the previous one.More spacious, brighter, enabling us to welcome our guests in a better
environment,
The new gallery will be representing contemporary African artists with
an increased visibility.
Our address is 200 chaussée de Wavre, 1050 Ixelles.

You are welcome to our opening night on Friday 17th February, from
18.00 - 22.00h
A gender mix and a show of paintings, drawings and mixed media,
featuring two artist painters.

David Kigozi, lives and works in Kampala, Uganda. We will be showing
his recent paintings.

Obiageli Okigbo, an artist from Nigeria, currently based in Brussels,
(selection of works between 2001 - 2011) .
The artist will be present.

Contact, info : +32(0)484 952 694

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2.
http://lumieresdafrique.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9cbe154b776db2fafe949cd61&id=d795549440&e=6daa0effa2

Voir en ligne : Opening new Lumières d'Afrique

Galerie Lumières d'Afrique

Ariane, Lumièresdafrique — 2011-12-21T10:33:08Z

We invite you to join us for a drink, as we celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Galerie Lumières d'Afrique.
It's a great pleasure to take this opportunity to thank all our customers for their support in our fight against morosity since 2006, at the junction of the European Quarter and the heart of Ixelles.
Friday 23rd December 2011 from 18.00 - 22.00h
You are Welcome !
Address : 204 chaussée de Wavre (next to l'Horloge du Sud, corner of rue du Trône and chaussée de Wavre) 1050 (...)

- L'agenda du quartier européen / Arts, Comités du quartier européen, Fonctionnaires européens, Porte du Sud, Ateliers d'artistes, Commerçants du quartier européen

Evening drink with artist Mufuki

Ariane — 2011-08-15T20:21:05Z

You are invited : 18.00h - 22.00h Friday 19/08/2011

Address : Galerie Lumières d'Afrique, 204 chaussée de Wavre
1050 Bruxelles

(Picture : 40 Ditalalas, mixed media on canvas, 150 x 240 cm)

Voir en ligne : Galerie Lumières d'Afrique

David Kigozi, exhibition : 3 -30 June 2011.

Ariane — 2011-05-29T10:46:10Z

David Kigozi, exhibition : 3 -30 June 2011. New works from "Human Series"

(...) Though David is an art teacher by profession he never got involved in class room teaching and decided to turn his talents to a freelance artist He uses various media for his artworks ranging from bronze, copper, fiberglass and wood for sculptures and paintings oil, acrylics both on canvas and sometimes incorporated with bark cloth, seeds, and raffia.

His works span from abstract, figurative and playful. David appreciates nature and his surrounding environment and mostly his works are based on day to day life activities. Through art David expresses his emotions and portrays them to the art world through various techniques.

He uses thick brilliant colors with a quite tone that blend perfectly with the abstract designs and themes. While painting he uses a brush, pallet knife and sometimes his bear fingers to come up with a desirable texture. Mostly his paintings have composition of birds, livestock and children totally based on the challenges of life. He opts for these themes in his subject because they rejuvenate his childhood memories and day to day life, David mentions that his parents were small scale farmers who used to keep animals like goats and chicken at home which is why they keep reflecting in his paintings as part of the subject.(...)

Voir en ligne : L'expo sur le site Lumières d'Afrique

Galerie Lumières d'Afrique, 204 Chaussée de Wavre, 1050 Bruxelles.

+32 (0) 484 95 26 94

Thursday to Sunday 14.00-20.00

David Mzuguno Tribute Exhibition

Lumièresdafrique — 2011-03-20T18:15:15Z

David Mzuguno Tribute Exhibition

From 04 April - 29 April 2011

Vernissage 06 April 17h00

Please note access to the David Mzuguno Tribute opening on 6th April, or visit of the exhibition, is reserved to European Commission Members or Staff. Please send your name and email if you wish to request an access badge to see the show before 31st March to : info@lumieresdafrique.eu

Abstract :

David Mzuguno was born near the city of Same, Pare district, Kilimanjaro region, in 1951 ; in 1967, He arrived in Dar-es-Salaam and started painting (in a realistic style) while completing his Secondary Education up to Form 4 (1972)

In 1969, he had won the 3rd prize of the Esso Calendar Competition but after finishing his education he decided to start working as a mining prospector (1973-79)

When he stopped working as a prospector in 1979, he committed himself to painting full-time, giving up his figurative style of paintings for a more naïve style, he became a member of the Tingatinga Centre until 1989, date when he decided to pursue his solo career from his home studio outside Dar-es-Salaam.

He has a considerable record of solo and group exhibitions, and in 2009 he was officially invited for two months in China as a resident artist. He sadly passed away in 2010 and the purpose of this exhibition is to pay tribute to the work of an artist with a real creative genius, one of Africa's greatest artists, and a man who inspired many of the young painters of the current generation of Tingatinga painters.

David Mzuguno (1951 -2010)

David Mzuguno was born in the Kilimanjaro Region and completed primary school in 1967. He was painting from an early age. He moved to Dar-es-Salaam to stay at his uncle's, where he attended secondary school, which included art subjects. He lived near the Morogoro stores, where the Tingatinga painters were concentrated and had their collective workshop based. Each day, on his way to school and back, he was often sharing jokes with the artists and sometimes making fun of them because of their non-realistic style.

After completing secondary school in 1972, Mzuguno worked as a mining prospector from 1973 until 1979. Meanwhile, he continued selling his paintings in hotels. In 1979 Mzuguno decided to drop his realistic style of paintings in favour of the Tingatinga style, which was much more successful at the time, and he joined the Tingatinga Partnership. The Tingatinga artist Mruta accepted him as member n°42 of the Partnership.

David Mzuguno stayed in the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society until 1989. He was selling more than the other painters, partly because he could speak English fluently with the customers, and partly because of his unique style, that no other painter in the Tingatinga collective ever attempted to imitate. When he left, he spent the next couple of years painting for a Japanese woman, who was a guest at the Dar-es-Salaam University. Thereafter, Mzuguno pursued his career, painting at his home in Mlandizi, at about 60km from the city centre.

Mzuguno's work demonstrate great originality in depicting scenes of lush vegetation with almost eccentric imagination. The richness of nature so obvious in his paintings speaks of his roots in the Kilimandjaro Region, and though he was known to be restless and travelled extensively through Tanzania's very different and often dry regions, it is nearly always an exuberant and sumptuous flora that is depicted in his paintings. Having said that, Mzuguno has also effortlessly created original works in the more “popular” style, showing crowded urban African environments and chaotic places such as Kariakoo Central Market in Dar-es-Salaam.

With his swirling landscape style, Mzuguno has taken the Tingatinga style in a new direction.

Unlike many Tingatinga painters who borrow from each other's motifs and styles, Mzuguno's style is uniquely his own and generally not copied by others. He has trained two young family members who have assisted him in his paintings.

In December 2003, Mzuguno held a solo exhibition at the Alliance Française in Dar-es-Salaam. In 2009, he participated in a two-month residency program at Shenzhen Fine Art Institute in China, organized by the Ministry of Culture, together with four other African artists. Less than a year ago, at the beginning of 2010, he had a very successful exhibition at the International School of Uganda (Entebbe Rd.) in Kampala, Uganda. The exhibition turned out to be an overwhelming success. An enormous group of art lovers attended the opening event and lots of individuals frequented the exhibition in the following weeks. The show was widely covered in the Ugandan press and was regarded , by the artist himself, as the biggest, most rewarding and most comprehensive ever dedicated to his work.

The spotlights were on David Mzuguno, who at that point was widely regarded as the finest, greatest and “last living Master Tingatinga painter” of Tanzania. His art career spanned many decades and his international breakthrough was, a year before the ISU exhibition took place, nothing less than a fact.

The Tingatinga style
David Mzuguno's work is rooted in the “Tingatinga style”, a distinct form of naïve paintings started by Eduard Saidi Tingatinga, the man who introduced naïve paintingsto Tanzania, in 1968. Tingatinga himself probably had the shortest possible career in the history of art since he only painted for four years. He was accidentally shot by the police in 1972, but the four apprentices he had formed carried on their work, passing on to the next generation up to the present situation were around 400 to 500 painters have adopted this livelihood and help keeping alive that vibrant and exotic style. Hundreds of them are merely “bread painters” and only a handful have managed to separate themselves from the crowd, and gained international acclaim.

One of them is Mohamed Charinda, acquired by the British Museum, in London. George Lilanga, who passed away in 2005 is undoubtedly the most famous ever, a key artist in the Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Contemporary Art, the collector has hundreds of paintings by the late Lilanga, and recently sold the rights to one of his paintings to Hermes, who used it to reproduce on a silk scarf, their flagship “Carré” by Hermes. The style recently gained importance and added visibility on the international art market. A Tingatinga style painting by the late artist Rajabu Chiwaya was sold at an auction in Paris some weeks ago, and sold for 51,000 USD.

Apart from George Lilanga, Damian Msagula, who also passed away in 2005, was another great artist although more ambiguous. But these great characters added artistic personality and a highly individual expression to the style, and were, like Mzuguno himself, true Masters of Tingatinga.
Mr. Pascal Bogaert, ISU Visual Arts teacher in Kampala, quotes :

“We were all honored to witness one of the most impressive contemporary African art treasures ever seen, at ISU', ‘The Last living Master Tingatinga painter'. There were paintings of all sizes and colors. Elephants roaming through Eden's garden. Traditional villages hidden in tropical jungles, its inhabitants living in perfect symbiosis with their natural surroundings. Sensual zebras in love under trees filled with the brightest colored peacocks. Breathtaking views of mighty Mount Kilimanjaro. Lions staring at the viewer from a kaleidoscopic jungle forest, wildly decorated with an explosion of life-forms. Jungle scenes in rich gradations of yellows, oranges and greens, adorned with sunflowers in the most complex, yet stunningly beautiful painted composition schemes, wild, warm and organic, like the tropical forest itself. Everyone loved the masterpieces that showed Africa's wildlife in all its glory.

Each single piece was a mad, abundant celebration of bio-diversity and electrifying natural energy, a refined artistic ode to the universal thirst for life and an embracement of pure naïve joy. It seemed as if a divine creative whirlwind had guided David's brush over the canvas, in order to visualize for us mortals, the fresh primordial energy beaming straight from the inner depths of Mother Earth.

It was clear that he lavished his artistic thirst from a never ending source of creativity and it just blew every single one of us away. No wonder all his works got sold, most of it even before the exhibition had officially opened. Uganda loved him”

David, sadly enough, suffered from lung cancer and wasn't even aware of his illness. He passed away in June 2010, shortly after the ISU Exhibition.

Voir en ligne : Biography and details

Aria Tammorra

2011-02-16T22:10:22Z

Andrea Gagliardi, habitant du quartier depuis 15 ans et des poussières, est parti à la recherche de ses racines culturelles. Dans son film, il nous invite à rencontrer Zi Giannino, Sabatino et Tonino à travers les campagnes napolitaines. Tous les trois, chanteurs virtuoses des communautés paysannes des alentours du Vésuve, incarnent une tradition musicale d'une vitalité inouïe : la Tammurriata.

"J'ai voulu montrer ce qui m'a touché chez ces personnes et qui m'a rendu fort : leur générosité, leur manière d'être, leur plaisir de partager des émotions, cette fantaisie aussi qui les porte à dédramatiser des situations graves. Leur plaisir d'exister avec les autres, en somme, et qu'ils célèbrent dans les fêtes populaires." (Andrea Gagliardi).

Ce film nous offre d'entrer dans un monde de sensations, de vibrations qui font le "sel" de la terre. Il rend hommage à ceux qui réussissent à transmettre un bien précieux : la puissance de la fête.

ce vendredi 18 février à 20.00 au Molière, Galerie de la Porte de Namur - Square du Bastion 3, 1050 Bruxelles.
La projection sera suivie d'un concert de tammurriata, dernier feu d'une culture populaire de la région napolitaine.

Voir en ligne : Aria Tammorra - Le film

Exposition "Visages de Paul Panda Farnana"

Ariane — 2011-01-08T11:38:00Z

Du 10 janvier au 6 février 2011
Exposition « Visages de Paul Panda Farnana »
Un Congolais d'exception, nationaliste, panafricaniste, intellectuel engagé et homme de culture
Cette exposition se veut une contribution à une mémoire collective respectueuse des apports positifs des migrants à la société belge, hier, aujourd'hui et demain.
Les détails

- L'agenda du quartier européen / Arts, Porte du Sud, Ponts, Chaussée de Wavre, Espace Senghor, Etterbeek

Collines III

Ariane — 2010-09-11T08:28:00Z

"Le gibier sans papier a du souci à se faire..." M.A.P.

Cfr. Collines I et collines II

L'arbre à palabre

Ariane — 2010-06-09T09:32:30Z

Rendez-vous au pied de l'arbre à palabres ! BOZAR STUDIOS y convie les familles, des tout petits aux arrière-grands-parents, à se laisser envoûter par les plus beaux contes d'Afrique.

Lors de plusieurs nocturnes le jeudi et à d'autres occasions spécifiques, des conteurs professionnels parcourent avec un bonheur communicatif leur répertoire de contes traditionnels.

En dehors de ces moments magiques, des casques reliés à l'arbre diffusent en continu une kyrielle d'histoires étonnantes. L'asbl « Bruxelles nous appartient » est allée à la rencontre des communautés africaines de Bruxelles pour y cueillir et archiver de curieux récits transmis oralement par leurs ancêtres. Le résultat : un magnifique témoignage de la mémoire collective des Bruxellois d'Afrique !

Mercredi 09.06 > Dimanche 26.09.2010

Palais des Beaux-Arts / Hall Horta

Rue Ravenstein

Gratuit

Dans le cadre de l'Afrique visionnaire

Voir en ligne : Bozar

Dhafer Youssef Quartet au Senghor

Ariane — 2010-04-19T20:37:00Z

Le Senghor accueillera sur scène, Dhafer Youssef Quartet, pour la quatrième fois, pour une date exclusive en Belgique à l'occasion de la sortie de son nouveau cd intitulé « Abu Nawas Rhapsody" (Jazzland/ distr. Universal)

Après « Malak » (1998), « Electric Sufi » (2001), « Digital Prophecy » (2003) et « Divine Shadows » (2006), Dhafer Youssef continue à briser les frontières et à défier les limites. Il effectue cette un véritable retour aux sources acoustiques pour lequel il a réuni autour de lui des musiciens hors du commun à même d'interpréter au mieux ses compositions : le prodigieux pianiste arménien Tigran Hamasyan, récompensé à Montreux et à Juan les Pins, le contrebassiste canadien Chris Jennings, collaborateur de Nguyen Le, Lee Konitz ou Kudsi Erguner, et le batteur Mark Guliana qui s'est illustré dans le trio d'Avishai Cohen pendant cinq ans.

Extrait de concert du quartet à l'institut du Monde Arabe 2009

Voir en ligne : www.dhaferyoussef.com

Chaussée de Wavre 366 Etterbeek / 02 230 31 40 / info@senghor.be