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order while waiting has replaced action. emerging international artists who work in a variety of media including
Moshekwa Langa’s collages and installations reflect upon the continuous painting, sculpture, installation art, photography, film and video.
displacements and shifts not only in linguistic and visual representation Ranging from traditional media to interactive environments, this exhibition
but equally in the physical landscape of contemporary Africa. In this aims to address the inevitable boundless nature of a “clandestine”
installation of large-scale drawings and video works, he presents a story vision, which unfolds independently from any kind of formal, individual
in twelve parts, a ‘non story’ in three acts in which people are waiting or collective affiliation. In a time when the ‘political’ often dominates
to get on a bus, waiting in doorways passing the time or just smoking artistic discourse, this show can neither be linked to any dominant theme
and waiting, waiting, waiting... nor media, resisting straightforward categorisation.
Rather, the works in Clandestine-both enigmatic or challenging-point
towards a shared space where the criteria of evaluation and the conditions
CLANDESTINE of artistic production are constantly shifting.
CURATED BY FRANCESCO BONAMI While the term “globalisation” is often reduced to the invasive force of
Over the course of the last year, curator Francesco Bonami travelled to the McDonald’s phenomena, “global” in art can also be seen working in
numerous countries such as Japan, Israel, Poland and Turkey, among the opposite direction, projecting the artists’ thought processes beyond
others, to explore the dynamic pulse of recent developments in his /her specific context. In this way, the work blurs the boundaries of
contemporary art practice. Clandestine includes approximately thirty topography and emphasizes the autonomy of its production.In a world that

Doron Solomons
Father
Video
2002
13 Min .

Magnus von Plessens
Raumfigur/ Figure in Space
Oil on canvas, 2002
60 x 50 cm

Kunstsammlung
Paulina Olowska Nordrhein-Westfalen
X Ackermans collection
Oil on canvas, 2002
71 x 39½ inches

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