Ethereal Assemblage

Exhibition: Ethereal Assemblage, Nov. 10-22 2015 @ Alliance Française

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Ethereal Assemblage
Paintings by Rakeeb Hassan

Dates: November 10-22, 2015
Venue: Alliance Française

About
Bangladeshi artist Rakeeb Hassan’s first ever one-man show took place in Kenya in 1994. His upbringing in Bengali language, literature and art, his formative training in fine arts in Kenya, his immigrant experiences in the UK and Canada, continue to influence Rakeeb’s art. His brush is constantly balanced in space, abstractly capturing fleeting glimpses of images which come in ethereal forms. His paintings are the colour of everything – what we think or what we can’t think, what we see or what we can’t see, assembling it all to portray a universe of freedom, free thought and tolerance.

This exhibition is homage to the slain bloggers of Bangladesh and to the lost lives in Kenya’s terror attacks.

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Exhibition: In the Coming Year, Oct. 30 – Nov. 13 2015 @ The Art Space – off Riverside Drive

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Dates: October 30 – November 13, 2015
Venue: The Art Space, off Riverside Drive, yellow maisonettes right after the Australian High Commission (100m off Waiyaki Way)

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‘The Art Space,’ is Kenya’s newest contemporary art gallery which will be showcasing it’s first exhibition, “In the Coming Year,” from October 30 to November 13, 2015.
This exhibition will serve as an introduction to some of the artists who will be featured at The Art Space in 2015/2016.

Exhibition by Eight Eminent Chinese Artists, Oct. 26–30 2015 @ National Museum

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Exhibition by Eight Eminent Chinese Artists

Opening: October 26, 2015
Time: 4.30 pm

Dates: October 27-30, 2015
Venue: National Museum
Entry: Normal Museum Rates Apply

About
The twentieth century has gone through many hardships and witnessed great changes in China. It is an epoch of heroes. Their emergence has added colour to the unfolding history of China.

This exhibition featuring members of the Chinese cultural elite in the 20th century will focus on the life and great deeds of nine outstanding representatives, who have exerted important influence on Chinese culture.

These eight famous persons are: Madam Song Qingling (AKA Soong Ching Ling), who once served as Honorary President of the People’s Republic of China, acclaimed as a great lady as well as our national treasure; Cai Yuanpei, China’s modern democratic revolutionist and a distinguished intellectual; Li Dazhao, one of the founders of Chinese Communist Party and the modern library in China; Lu Xun, the pioneer of China’s New Culture Movement, remembered as “the Soul of Our Nation”; Guo Moruo, an encyclopedic cultural giant and a famous social activist; Mao Dun, China’s modern literary giant; Lao She, a master of language also known as “the People’s Artist”; Xu Beihong, a prominent educator in the fine arts, “Father of Modern Chinese Painting”; Mei Lanfang, a master of the performing arts and the progenitor of the “Mei style” of Beijing Opera.

They shall forever be the pride of the Chinese Nation.

Every nation has nurtured its own eminent figures. The legacies left by these heroes belong not only to their country of birth, but to the whole world.

This exhibition is held with a view to enhance cultural exchange, understanding and friendship between China and Kenya by presenting China’s celebrities, Chinese culture and history.

Image: Damba Ismail [Untitled] via National Museum of Kenya

Exhibition by Nine Artists from Uganda, Oct. 25 – Nov. 15 2015 @ National Museum

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Image: Damba Ismail [Untitled] via National Museum of Kenya
Image: Damba Ismail [Untitled] via National Museum of Kenya
Dates: October 25 – November 15, 2015
Venue: Creativity Gallery, National Museum
Time: Daily 8.30am – 5.30pm
Entry: Normal Museum Rates Apply

Paintings by: Anwar Sadat, Damba Ismail, Damulira Siraj, Kintu Paul, Kalungi Godfery, Ngula Yusuf, Paulo Akiiki, Tindi Ronnie and Waddimba Edward

remains, waste and metonymy

Remains, Waste and Metonymy, Oct. 24 2015 @ British Institute in Eastern Africa

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remains, waste and metonymyBy approaching stuff as incomplete and emergent, Remains, Waste and Metonymy offers critical scrutiny to the assumed finality, stability and comfort of ‘objects’, ‘persons’ and ‘landscapes’. Always ‘in the making’ remains and waste often appear like unfinished biographies, stories and narrations that promise but rarely deliver entirely coherent meanings, bounded entities and stable wholes. Evoking presence rather than offering meaning (more metonymic than metaphorical) this indeterminacy is creatively explored to reveal the excessive multiplicities of time, substance and space.

The interventions presented are works-in-progress that explore new avenues of collaboration between artists and scholars around these themes of waste, remains and metonymy.

Featuring performances and pieces by:

Syowia Kyambi
Joost Fontein with Fawaz Elsaid and Mandela Samuel
Sam Derbyshire
Jackie Karuti
John Harries
Neo Sinoxolo Musangi
Annie Pfingst
Connie Smith
Sam Hopkins and Simon Rittmeier
Meshack Oiro

With thanks to National Museums of Kenya; Goethe Institute, Nairobi; Professor Stephanie Newell (Yale University)

Timothy Brooke

Exhibition: Genesis by Timothy Brooke, Oct. 24 – Nov. 24 2015 @ One Off Contemporary Gallery

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Timothy Brooke
PRIVATE VIEW
Date: Saturday, 24 October 2015
Time: Noon to 5pm

OPEN
Dates: October 25 – November 24, 2015
Venue: One Off Contemporary Gallery

About
Timothy Brooke is considered one of the region’s most established painters and each of his exhibitions is eagerly anticipated by both collectors and fellow artists alike. The latest exhibition titled ‘Genesis’, contains some vintage Timothy Brooke subject matter; Mt Kenya, wildlife, livestock, beautiful depictions of the diverse people of the region and Aloe flowers. It will also feature a supremely stunning painting of Elephants. As always Timothy documents what has been around for thousands of years but what we stand to lose in a couple of decades.

Peter Hetz, Executive Director of Laikipia Wildlife Forum, has kindly consented to open the exhibition.

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