Patterns for (Re)cognition
ed. by Vincent Meessen ; with contr. by Elena Filipovic, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Jan Vansina ...[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Elena Filipovic, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Jan Vansina, ...[et al.]
- Publication
- Gent ; Brussels : Snoeck Publishers ; BOZAR Books, 2017
- Scope
- 192 Pages, illustrated, 28 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789461614148
This publication documents the three editions of Patterns for (Re)cognition, an exhibition comprising various duos conceived by Vincent Meessen in KIOSK, Gent (2013), Kunsthalle Basel (2015), and BOZAR, Brussels (2017). It offers new perspectives on the reception of this package that was intended to cast a contemporary eye on the abstract works that the Congolese artist, Tshela Tendu – better known until now by the name of Djilatendo – painted in the period between 1929 and 1932. Through this polemic approach to abstraction, which is perceived, beyond its formal aspects, as both an epistemic issue and a power matrix, Vincent Meessen is making a precise and informed “para-curatorial” gesture that casts light on a blind spot in colonial modernity.
- Person as subject
- Tshela Tendu (Djilatendo), Vincent Meessen
- Keywords
- decolonisation , various disciplines , curating , abstract art
- Geographical location
- Congo ; Belgium
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie
- Remarks
based on keyword
