Art Africa, " 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, NYC, Opens This Week"
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, NYC, Opens This Week on 05 May 2016. 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, a leading transnational platform dedicated to promoting Africa and African-related art practices and projects, will return to New York from May 6 - 8, 2016, with press and collector previews on Thursday, May 5, 2016. The second U.S. iteration of the fair will take place at the 25,000 square-foot manufacturing warehouse Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where the New York edition of 1:54 launched in 2015, and will coincide with Frieze Art Week. 1:54 New York 2015 © Sasha Arutyunova. Image taken from 1:54's website. A reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, the title of 1:54 establishes the parameters of the fair’s ethos: as a platform that strives to represent multiplicity and showcase the diversity of contemporary African art and cultural production on an international stage. 1:54 was initiated by Touria El Glaoui in 2013 in London. Born and raised in Morocco, Touria El Glaoui is the daughter of one of the most revered living Moroccan artists, Hassan El Glaoui. She has organised and co-curated significant exhibitions of her father’s work, including a major retrospective in Casablanca and ‘Meetings in Marrakech’, a joint exhibition with Winston Churchill’s paintings hosted in Leighton House, London. May 2016 marks the second edition of 1:54 New York, while 1:54 London will return for the fourth consecutive year from the 6-9th of October 2016 at Somerset House.The 2016 New York edition of 1:54 will showcase 17 galleries from 9 countries, in addition to an impressive selection of works by over 60 artists working in various artistic mediums and who come from a unique blend of geographical backgrounds, comprising 27 countries: Angola, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, United Kingdom, USA and Zimbabwe.
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