Nigerian artist Peju Alatise wins Johannesburg art prize
The Nigerian artist Peju Alatise (born in 1975) has been awarded the FNB Art prize in association with the 10th edition of the Joburg Art Fair which will take place from September 8 through 10 in Johannesburg. She follows in the footsteps of artists Nolan Oswald Dennis, Turiya Magadlela, Portia Zvavahera and Kudzanai Chiurai. Aside from the financial support, Alatise will also present her work at the fair. The artist is currently representing Nigeria at the Venice Biennale — she is an artist, poet and writer but was trained as an architect. “She’s passionate about addressing social, political and gender-related issues as her primary subject matter, through artistic work that also captures the joys and pain of womanhood in modern-life-African traditions,” said a jury. More via Artthrob.
Peju Alatise
Christina Forrer joins Luhring Augustine
The New York gallery has announced that they now represent the Swiss artist Christina Forrer (born in 1978). The artist’s work has been previously exhibited at the Swiss Institute in New York and she is also represented by a Californian gallery, Grice Bench.
Her work is principally in tapestry, painting and work on paper, and has been described as at once “fantastic and brutally honest, cartoonish and harrowing. Her work is a searing exploration of conflict, which she perceives as being the very core of all relationships.” Forrer will have a solo show at the gallery in March 2019. More details here.
Christina Forrer, Eight (2017)
Italian artist Chiara Fumai has died age 39
The artist, born in Rome in 1978, lived and worked in Milan and created critically engaged work manifested in performance, installation, videos and collages.
As a radical feminist, Fumai was interested in media culture, language and repression. Her work is currently on view in Gent, as part of the collective exhibition “Summer Hang” at the Galerie Tatjana Pieters. She had also participated in documenta 13. A full overview of her work can be found here.
Chiara Fumai, Chiara Fumai legge Valerie Solanas, (2013)
The Outsider Art Fair returns to Paris
The fifth edition of the Paris iteration of the Outsider Art Fair is to take place between October 19 and 22 at the Hotel du Duc in the 9th arrondissement. The fair, which was launched in New York 25 years ago, will also stage a presentation dedicated to Daniel Cordier, an art brut collector who recently donated 500 works to the Centre Pompidou. More info via Artnews
The list of the 34 exhibitors can be found here:
Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Art Naïve Gallery, Moscow
ATSUKOBAROUH, Tokyo
Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York
Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California
Donald Ellis Gallery, New York
Galerie Antoine Ritsch-Fisch, Brussels
Galerie Béatrice Soulié, Paris
Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Petionville, Haiti
Galerie Chave, Vence, France
Galerie du Marché, Lausanne, Switzerland
Galerie Escale Nomad, Paris
Galerie Hervé Courtaigne, Paris
Galerie Isola – Art Brut, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Lemétais, Saint-Sever-du-Moustier, France
Galerie Polysemie, Marseilles, France
Galerie Toxic, Luxembourg
Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
Hervé Perdriolle, Paris
La Fabuloserie, Paris
La Pop Galerie, Sète, France
Les Yeux Fertiles, Paris
M&M Gallery, Genova, Italy
Maroncelli 12, Milan
Norman Brosterman, East Hampton, New York
Outside In, Chichester, United Kingdom
Outsider Art Museum—Hermitage Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Raw Vision, Watford, United Kingdom
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London
Rizomi_art Brut, Parma, Italy
Sardac, London
Shrine Gallery, New York
Yukiko Koide Presents, Tokyo
