Exhibitions

Délio Jasse: Caducado is still on view at Tiwani Contemporary in Lagos, Nigeria until April 20, 2024

The exhibition title is taken from the Portuguese expression, caducado which is also the name of his latest series of 2023 cyanotype works, Caducado and Series Registo, which refers to the existence of expired or discarded ephemeras such as documents, passports, personal effects, archives that have been abandoned and reclaimed by the artist from flea markets. Délio Jasse has selected early to mid-20th century group portraits; that one can only imagine having once belonged to private individuals. Délio Jasse enters a process of re-imagining the images; his interventions recast figures anew, proposing new questions that are inimitably officiated by his use of a stamp motif or amended with cursive writing layered onto the pictorial surface, re-establishing a new image and encounter with these visual documents.

Kat Anderson: Mark of Cane is still on view at the Nunnery Gallery in London, United Kingdom until April 21, 2024

Kat Anderson will premiere a fictional short film and new paperworks which explore the impact of sugar on the African-Caribbean Diaspora. Part of Anderson’s ongoing project Episodes of Horror, which uses the genre of Horror to examine representations and the projected threat of the Black body and mental illness on society, Mark of Cane confronts the haunting legacies of the Industrial Revolution and the Transatlantic Slave trade. The exhibition is an immersive, audio-visual experience, centred on his new single-channel, fictional short film Las, Fiya, 2023. Shot largely on an existing sugarcane farm in Jamaica, the film weaves historical methods of harvesting sugarcane and sugar production with the cinematic concept of the Origin Story. The accompanying series of paperworks, that the artist has hand- made from the extracted by-products of sugarcane, marks an exploration of a new medium for them.

Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects is still on view at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada until April 21, 2024

Since the early 1980s, Magdalene Odundo has pursued a singular vision centered on the refined, magisterial ceramic vessel. Made entirely by hand and finished to a smooth, lustrous sheen, her works are unique while synthesizing traditions of ceramics and other media from multiple global cultures. Odundo’s sensuous vessels, with their vibrant orange and velvety black surfaces, reference the human body; their rounded bellies and elongated necks evoking a sense of energy and movement. The artist works on a single vessel for months, slowly and rhythmically, pouring years of experimentation and technical mastery into each piece. The art pieces span geographies, time periods, and media, bringing her work into conversation with objects as diverse as an ancient Cycladic marble figurine, a Ndebele South African apron, and a painting by the late Trinidadian-Canadian artist Denyse Thomasos.

Biennials

60th International Art Exhibition will open at various locations in Venice, Italy from April 20 to November 24, 2024

Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere is the title and theme of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2024, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. The title is drawn from a series of works started in 2004 by the Paris-born and Palermo-based collective Claire Fontaine. The works consist of neon sculptures in different colours that render in a growing number of languages the words “Foreigners Everywhere”. The phrase comes, in turn, from the name of a Turin collective which fought racism and xenophobia in Italy in the early 2000s: Stranieri Ovunque. The International Exhibition takes place in the Arsenale and in the Giardini, where a performance program is being planned with events during the pre-opening and closing weekend. With a total of 331 participants, it will feature two sections: the Nucleo Contemporaneo (Contemporary Core) and the Nucleo Storico (Historic Core).

Art Fairs

Capital Art Fair Tshwane is open at Menlyn Maine in Pretoria, South Africa from April 5-7, 2024

Under the theme Intersections, the Capital Art Fair Tshwane (CAFT) is not just an art fair, it is a convergence of narratives, a collision of perspectives, and an exploration of uncharted artistic territories. With Intersections, CAFT doesn’t just showcase art – it celebrates the fusion of tradition and rebellion, history and dissent, and global dialogue in a local setting. More than 100 works from over 20 groundbreaking artists will redefine the boundaries of creativity, spanning the diverse mediums of painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, video, and performance. Some of the artists who will be part of the inaugural art fair include of Mark Swart, Sylvester Zanoxolo Mqeku, Mthuthuzeli ‘Sthu’ Manaka, Ivukuvuku and many others whose pieces collectors will find when they pop in to view the works on display at this groundbreaking art fair.