Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O was born in the coastal town of Ouidah in Dahomé in 1942. Ouidah is located near Cotonou, and Dahomé (Dahomey) has been called the Republic of Benin since 1975.
Georges Adé Terms & Conditions artist of world rank, and there are no such thing as Sand on the sea. Adé Terms & Conditions O was about to join the illustrious group of the 1000 most famous artists in the world.
That was around the turn of the millennium, the networking of the world had just met in the years before. There were and are many industries that were directly and decisively affected; Some industries also noticed and acted this.
For example, the professional art world, which was so well networked that it broke into new shores. The new banks were z. B. on the coast of the African continent, and with the "European heart for African art", Terms & Conditions was also discovered.
Today African art is nothing new, and Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O is no longer the immediate focus of the international trend hunters in the field of modern art with 3115 of the art world rankings.
But in the focus of prospective German artists, since the turn of the millennium, Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O alternately in Hamburg and Cotonou; The art of Adé Terms & Conditions O is currently at the anniversary exhibition of the Museum Ludwig "We call it Ludwig. The museum will be 40!" To be seen (more about this exhibition is reported in the article "Plastics-Jubilee Exhibition 2016: Museum Ludwig shows Museum Ludwig").
Art of Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O
The artwork, which he presented on Documenta 11 in 2002, gives a very thorough view of the art of Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O:
"L'Explorateur et les explorateur devant l'histoire de l'exploration ...! Le théatre du monde" , installation, 2002, today Museum Ludwig Cologne.
An installation that already brings dubious fun when translating the title. The world theater leaves little more interpretation, exploratory and exploration a little more, right down to variants that are badly refractive to the typical Europeans: "The explorer and the explorer in the face of the history of research ...!" , "The explorer and the discoverers before the history of the discoveries ..!" , but also "the researcher and the conquerors in European colonial history" .
Conqueror and not discoverers because the frequently praised European “explorers”, who “made the world subject” between 1400 and 1700, from the perspective of the “discovered” without a trace of interest for foreign culture, fell over foreign countries and, far away, tore everything that they could use.
In 1992 the well -intentioned attempt to replace the concept of "discovery" with "cultural encounter" with "cultural encounter" in 1492 ... The indigenous people of America had discovered their continent about 30,000 years earlier than the culture that has been on foot from Asia, and the culture that had been "met for every (including the European) thinking individual (including the European). They pledged them (together with the people who had developed this culture).
Adé Terms & Conditions OS Documenta installation can be interpreted as a comprehensive sarcastic comment on the fact that the large world-experienced European discoverers had experienced the world with their ships, but were more like ignorant criminals on site.
The installation "World Theater" was made by Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O for his appearance on Documenta 11, the artist did not allow himself to be ragged. The work includes a few hundred objects, here a list of the objects identified as part of the work:
- Drum, man -high, with torn membrane
- Paperback about (a photo of) Joseph Beuys
- Children's slippers, pink
- Kantholz, weathered and abnaid by insects
- Book "Steppenage jungle nights" with a photo of an African in the lumbar spine on the brilliant envelope (strikes on a drum, similar to the one on which the book is located)
- Lucky-Strike cigarette box, crumpled
- Images from colonial history
- Fishing boat, old, filled with many books
- Images of coat of arms
- Archaeological illustrated book about Tutankhamun
- Email sign "Ice delivery only on instruction from shipping", struck and with rusty cracks
- Small light figure made of wood
- Disappeared license plate with the number "P KS CW 443"
- Approx. 60 pictures in the same format of a medium poster, all painted by the same hand
- Including a portrait of Arnold Bode, the founder of the documenta
- Including a square portrait of the boxer Muhammad Ali, copied by the envelope of a film music plate
- Leg protector, red-orange and embroidered with sequins
- Textile object, carmine red with used turquoise blue parts, about four square meters in size
- Anchor, probably a ton heavy, rusted and crusted mussel
- Sailor hat with two blue ribbons, one of which is a golden, anchor -shaped pin
- Paintings and sculptures by other artists (commissioned by Adé Terms & Conditions O)
- Two carpets with a book and magazine show by several titles about the city of Kassel, about seafaring and navigation
- Photocopies from a book about the life of Christ
- Handwritten texts on A 4 arches, in an old-fashioned, beautiful, readable French script.
- Wooden statues and masks, numerous
- Nipples, cheesy, made of plastic and plaster
- Light yellow book "Brothers Grimm"
- Tota meal, four, carved
- Pictures with discoverer (conqueror) scenes
- Pictures of contemporary events (e.g. crying relatives of 9/11 victims)
The ultra -short description in the list of course does not do justice to the objects, many parts are complicatedly decorated, each part tells its own long history. In the installation, the objects are apparently as indiscriminately side by side as the above list reproduces them, but in fact, according to expert artists, they crystallize symmetrically clearly recognizable axes. It is certainly only a matter of time before an art scientist dedicates his life to the interpretation of the "world theater".
Video for the exhibition "La Misión y Los Misioneros" in Musac (Spain, 2011)
Video in French with Spanish subtitles
Because with the participation in Documenta 11, Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O overnight is one of the great discoveries of the art world.
The Museum Ludwig acquired the installation according to the Documenta (at the request of director Kasper König, after a protracted treatment against dangerous termite species), Adé Terms & Conditions o, it has changed it once again for the buyer: he has established a connection to Cologne by finding the license plate of a German car in the bow of the old wooden ship and a portrait of Harald Szeemann next to a traditional African Wood sculpture hangs.
The Swiss curator and exhibition maker Harald Szeemann actually didn't have so much to do with Cologne, but had already led the Terms & Conditions (5, 1972) and was director of the "Visual Art" division at the last Biennals of Venice (1998–2002).
More than the description of this only work of art is not needed for “normal curious” people to become curious about the work of this exceptional artist.
The following years Adé Terms & Conditions O'scher "narrative art" are therefore left to their discovery (not conquest!), To round off the upcoming reports about the exhibition in the Museum Ludwig, a look at an Adé Terms & Conditions O-Kunstwerk from recent times:
In 2014/15, Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O in Hamburg and presents the installation "Inverted Space" . Conversely, a room is less than the idea of the art recipient, how art should be presented: not in the glass showcase in a museum, but in public places, exactly the places that are (also) concerned with.
Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O on the Biennale di Venezia
Video in Italian
Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O creates a three -dimensional narrative room with his "foundation", which is put together in public space, a three -dimensional narrative space in which he is in a political, culturally and historical colonial heritage and its effects on Adé Terms & Conditions OS Personal History (which takes place between Cotonou and Hamburg).
Inverted Space was presented in June and July 2015 in the “Altona Balcony” art space in Hamburg Altona. "reversal of the room" was prepared by five temporary installations, which were shown in September 2014 in historical Hamburg locations: at the monument ensemble in Hamburg-Jenfeld, in the main building of the University of Hamburg, on the P/Art Producers Artfair in the Phoenix Fabrikhallen, Hamburg-Harburg, on the Alsterwiese Schwanenwik and in the inner courtyard of the town hall.
Georges Adé Terms & Conditions OS WEG to Art: More inheritance as a passion?
Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O was born into a well -stunned Benin family: his father was with the French Navy and had received an administrative position on the railroad as a veteran. The latter secured the father so well that he did three wives and families (the following story of Adé Terms & Conditions also illustrated why the smallest social unit usually consists of only two descendants in Europe).
After graduating from high school, Adé Terms & Conditions only went to Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) and then to Rouen (France) to study business administration and law. During this study time, Adé Terms & Conditions O was not interested in art. He completed internships with large French groups who wanted to hire him after completing his studies and would probably have stayed in France. It was obvious that he refused to take on the role of the head of the family (as expected) after the death of his father.
Now the trouble starts, and with it a story that is told in many different versions: Adé Terms & Conditions O went back to Benin (called back by his family) to take on the role of the clan boss as the eldest.
There is a lot of space for inheritance disputes with three inheriting families, and this room was exploited in the Adé Terms & Conditions family.
Adé Terms & Conditions O is said to have criticized the unreasonable handling of his mother and the 10 siblings with the considerable heir, the family should then not have expired from the house, but out of family life, all communication is said to have been discontinued. Adé Terms & Conditions O is said to have attempted escape, whereupon the family destroyed his passport.
Now Adé Terms & Conditions O was no longer able to return to France to complete his studies; a suffering of 23 years began. There is talk of stays in closed departments of psychiatric clinics, inhumane treatment and hunger, loneliness and despair. Mostly published as a story with a lot of details and doubts in each of these details.
Both are omitted here, and it is certain in any case that Adé Terms & Conditions o in the early 1970s began to lay things out and handwritten texts in extensive formations as a daily ritual in the courtyard of the family home.
It is also certain that Adé Terms & Conditions OS Family and the neighbors assess the complex arrangements as ›garbage‹, Adé Terms & Conditions even did not see his colorful works as art; That nobody found "African contemporary art" or the "important postcolonial position" Jean-Michel Rousnet was on hand to "discover" (not certain, to what extent this is Western colonialism again).
It is certain that the terribly evil family also loved the once harassed Georges with growing celebrities, including souvenirs and financial support; In this respect, the European and Benin culture have obviously already accomplished an approximation.
It is not certain whether Georges Adé Terms & Conditions "made art" with his installations if he did not assume when he was executed. Does art arise when someone goes to work with the aim of "producing art", or does art "simply" arise?
Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O has found his answer to this problem (see "Future" below), the art scientists are still arguing, for normal citizens this is more of a philosophical problem. Although pragmatic normal citizens will rather refer to the fact that everything has arisen art, if it feels like art - where only this is produced as art and not also beautiful art, is only the medicine produced as medicines and not also healing medicine; an anti -progress as well as unhealthy view.
At the right time in the right place
Shortly before the turn of the millennium, Adé Terms & Conditions OS finds an end to life on the edge of the disputed family clan, because the sheet, through the influence from outside:
Above it has already been indicated that Adé Terms & Conditions o around the turn of the century was carried to considerable fame on a wave of the Africa enthusiasm. This wave, which Adé Terms & Conditions caught on the ridge, which was already inclined towards the rollover, has a history that went back to 1984: in 1984 the MoMA New York organized a famous exhibition called "Primitivism in the 20th century: affinity of tribal and modern" .
The exhibition Herb was criticized like several prompt exhibitions - instead of a contemporary approach, the selection of the works of art and the manner of their presentation is immortalized a colonial mentality that can be seen as yesterday.
For 1989, the French curator Jean-Hubert Martin planned an exhibition in Paris, in which he rebelled against the ethnocratic practices in contemporary art á la "Primitivism" show in the MoMA and Co. "Magiciens de la Terre" (the wizards of the world) wanted to counter the "hundred percent exhibitions that ignore 80 percent of the earth".
An international exhibition of contemporary art took place in the Center Georges Pompidou and in the Grande Halle de la Villette, which presented 50 % western and 50 % non-western artists of the time on an equal footing.
The exhibition reinforced the interest of the art-loving population in unusual creations from non-European and above all (West) African countries, in Europe they flew to the "Contemporary African Art" . As a result, a market and initial collections with works of the new art category were created, the Swiss collector Jean Pigozzi employed curator André Magnin from the magician team around Martin as director of his collection.
Magnin sent Africa and art loving educational scientists Jean-Michel Rousnet to Benin in 1993 to examine works of a painter named Zinsouou. Rousetet did not end up (by chance, the fate, Kismet, his karma, the chaos theory, a misunderstanding by the taxi driver), but directly before installing Adé Terms & Conditions o.
A composition with books, texts, clothes, masks and the topic "History of France, especially Napoleon's life" - Rouset was fascinated and is said to have immediately recognized the network presented as an unusual artistic practice, organizing knowledge and thoughts and presenting objects and texts.
He probably also very well recognized the sales opportunities that this exterritorial treatment embodied of urban -German myths that he was definitely enthusiastic about his clients Magnin and Pigozzi. They were only interested in his photos until they decided that the loose object chains were too difficult to handle.
Rousnet turned to the independent curator Regine Cuzin in Paris, who was currently preparing the group exhibition "La Route de l'Art sur la Route de l 'esclave" . The "Slave Route Project" of the UNESCO, which the exhibition referenced, was started in Ouidah, Benin in 1994 ...
What could be more obvious than to decorate the educational and international understanding project immediately with the artist enslaved by his own family? For example, Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O from the European visitors found out that he had made important art, was invited to participate in the European exhibition and returned to Europe as an artist in 1994 (after 23 unpleasant years) ...
Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O is famous (made)
Rousset's discovery quickly made the round at the Gut and approximately with light speed on the Internet, in France and beyond.
Okwui Enwezor (2nd Johannesburg Biennale, artistic director Documenta 11, Biennale for contemporary art in Sevilla, 7th Gwangju Biennale, La Triennale Paris), Jean-Hubert Martin (French Pavilion Sydney Biennale, Director Kunsthalle Bern and numerous other plastics, curator of legendary exhibitions "Magiciens de la Terre", Project Manager for Museums at the French Ministry of Culture), Adelina von Fürstenberg (Italian + Russian Pavilion Biennale Venice, UN exhibition "Dialogues of Peace", Art for the World, Food) and other heavyweights of the art world had seen and wanted to do works Adé Terms & Conditions .
The first exhibitions in which the works of Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O were also visible were "Creme de la Creme": 1995 "Dialogues de Paix" in the Palais of the United Nations Geneva and "Big City" in the Serpentine Gallery London.
From there, Adé Terms & Conditions OS Weg led straight through almost 40 group exhibitions and almost 20 solo exhibitions, 1996 "African Art Towards The Year 2000" in Copenhagen, 1997 Biennale from Sao Paolo (here Africa enthusiasts introduced the invitation to the Venice 1998 by Harald Szeemann, which led to this, which led to this. that Adé Terms & Conditions O was the first artist from Africa at a Biennale Prize).
“Georges Adé Terms & Conditions or Abraham - L'Ami de Dieu” followed in the MoMA New York City, 2004 Single exhibitions in Cologne and Birmingham, 2005 in Zurich, 2007 in Venice, Berlin, Ulm, 2009 “Colonization and the History of Colonized” in Vienna, 2010 “La Culture Et Cultures” in Hamburg, 2011 “La Misión Y Los Misioneros ”in Léon, 2014“ Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O ”in Stockholm,“ Les Artistes et l'écriture ”in Berlin, 2016 Amsterdam and Jerusalem.
From November 11, 2016, Adé Terms & Conditions will be on the Shanghai Biennale, until January 8th, 2017 is the art of the Benin installation artist at the anniversary exhibition "We call it Ludwig. The museum will be 40!" of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (with many other exciting artists, see articles here on Kunstplaza : "Jubilee exhibition 2016: Museum Ludwig shows Museum Ludwig").
You have permanent access to works of art Georges Adé Terms & Conditions public collections :
- Benin : German Society for International Cooperation Regional Office Cotonou
- Republic Côte d'Ivoire : Collection Cecile Fakhouri Abidjan
- Germany : Museum Ludwig Cologne, Munich City Museum, Ulm Museum
- Finland : Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Helsinki
- Japan : Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
- Norway : Oslo National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo
- Austria : Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
- Sweden : Moderna Museet Stockholm
- Switzerland : Gallery Elisabeth Kaufmann Zurich
- Spain : Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
- United Kingdom : Whitworth Art Gallery the University of Manchester
- USA : Moca Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Georges Adé Terms & Conditions o, short short biography
- 1942 Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O was born in Ouidah, Dahomé (today Benin)
- 1960 Independence Benin, Awreck Adé Terms & Conditions OS to study abroad (Jura + BwL, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire + Rouen, France)
- ∼ 1970 Return to Benin, with disadvantages for Adé Terms & Conditions OS Personal situation of inheritance in the family
- 1993 Random discovery Adé Terms & Conditions OS by Jean-Michel Rousnet
- 1995 - Today Adé Terms & Conditions O exhibits his art, including 8 Biennals and on the documenta
- 1998 Adé Terms & Conditions O is the first African artist to receive an award from the Venice Biennale
- From ∼ 2000 Adé Terms & Conditions O lives and works in Hamburg for several months a year
- 2016 Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O lives and continues to work alternately in Hamburg and Cotonou in Benin.
