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Later this 12 months Mr Jaar’s Rwandan work will appear at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in Cape Town, the primary time it has been exhibited in Africa. Audiences will as soon as again be forced to think about, and beneath, scenes they have encountered on television or social media. Now 64, Mr Jaar was an adolescent in Chile when Salvador Allende was ousted in a army coup, however has lived in New York since his mid-20s.
Tembi Contemporary is delighted to present Malaysian artist Kow Leong Kiang’s first solo exhibition in Yogyakarta. Since successful the Grand Prize on the Philip Morris ASEAN Art Awards with his controversial painting, ‘Mr. Foreign Speculator, Stop Damaging Our Country’, the artist has gone on to create a number of the most memorable images of rural Malaysia.
Just have a look at the individuals who came to speak exhibits like ‘Oprah Winfrey’ …