Bøger af Octavio Zaya

Beninese artist Georges Adéagbo (born 1942) began his professional life studying law and business in France--until his father's death in 1971 brought a halt to his degree, requiring him to return to Benin and assume his father's patriarchal duties. Frustrated, disoriented and faced with the strictures of traditional Beninese life, Adéagbo began to create "constellations" in his garden, combining found objects with his own handwritten notes. After working in solitude for more than 20 years, in the mid-1990s he was invited to present a first show of his work in France, and since then, he has been exhibited in museums and biennials worldwide. Adéagbo's work is often exhibition-driven: a theme is selected, an extensive research process begins in the artist's archive, which ultimately yields complex assemblage-installations. For this monograph, Adéago addresses the theme of "The Mission and the Missionaries," using historical and personal materials such as books, magazines, photographs and textiles.

A rich display of themes and forms of expression by Israeli artists with diverse ethnic, community, religious, cultural and social backgrounds. The premise rejects any kind of sensationalism or ideological aesthetic, in favour of an in-depth investigation of each piece and artist. It is in fact the result of an exhaustive investigation that invites the spectator to reflect on the richness of themes and forms of expression explored by Israeli artists, who live in a multicultural State with a diversity of ethnic, community, religious, cultural and social backgrounds and practices. Includes works of: Keren Assaf, Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, Ori Gersht, Varda Getzow, Talia Keinan, Miki Kratsman, Sigalit Landau, Adi Nes, Eliezer Sonnenschein, Gal Weinstein, Nadav Weissman, Sharon Yaari and Rona Yefman..