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Guy Tillim
Avenue Patrice Lumumba
HC 24 x 35 cm.
Prestel 2008
EURO 50.00
Diese Serie untersucht in architektonischen Ansichten die Visionen und Pläne der afrikanischen Staaten nach der Entkoloniasierung. Weder wehmütig, noch abgeklärt, sondern klar, engagiert und präzise.
In many African cities, there are streets, avenues and squares named after Patrice Lumumba, one of the first elected African leaders of modern times, winning the Congo election after independence from Belgium in 1960. His speech at the independence celebrations in Léopoldville, in the presence of the Belgian King, Baudouin, unequivocally signalled his opposition to the West's idea of neo-colonial order that would replace overt domination with indirect control. He was assassinated in January 1961 by Belgian agents after UN complicity in the secession of the provinces of Katanga and South Kasai, and a Western power-supported military coup led by Mobutu Sese Seko. Today his image as a nationalist visionary necessarily remains unmolested by the accusations of abuse of power that became synonymous with later African heads of state.
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Ausstellungen von/mit Guy Tillim
» Check: Guy Tillim @ Photography-now.com 13.01. - 19.04.2009: Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresso, Paris, F
25.10. - 20.12.2008: A Look Away - South African Photography Today , Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, D
24.09. - 04.01.2009: Short Stories in der aktuellen Fotografie , Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH
12.09. - 05.01.2009: Die Tropen. Ansichten von der Mitte der Weltkugel , Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin, D
10.07. - 23.08.2008: Avenue Patrice Lumumba , Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, ZA
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