The Art of Hyperbole: Meschac Gaba’s Museum of Contemporary African Art
Open Lecture
The mixed-media installation, Museum of Contemporary African Art, by Beninese artist, Meschac Gaba, was one of the biggest single purchases of contemporary African Art made by Tate. It was placed on display at Tate Modern earlier in 2013. The work has excited reactions with Jonathan Jones in the Guardian regaling it as “a powerful, surrealistic, anti-museum”, questioning the place of contemporary African Art in today’s metropolitan museum spaces. Is Gaba’s work the apt way of responding to the conditions surrounding the market in contemporary African Art? Or, on the contrary, are Gaba’s hyperbolic gestures just another example of an empty aesthetic?
In this discussion, artist Samson Kambalu, curator Paul Goodwin and author Lara Pawson join a debate chaired by Dr. David Dibosa.
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TrAIN Open Series
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Taking place at fortnightly intervals on Wednesday evenings during the academic term, the series is open to the public, as well as staff and students across the University of the Arts London.
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Dr. David Dibosa
TrAIN Member
David Dibosa trained as a curator, after receiving his first degree from Girton College, University of Cambridge. He was awarded his PhD in Art History from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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