Contemporary African art, the exhibition at SPAM! opens on Wednesday 9 April The exhibition curated by Alessandro Romanini opens on Wednesday 9 April The exhibition opens on Wednesday 9 April, presenting reproductions of paintings by some of the most important contemporary African artists, whose works are exhibited in the most important galleries around the world: from Paris to New York, Dubai, Cape Town, Venice, San Francisco, Moscow and many other cities. It was conceived for ALDES | SPAM! by Alessandro Romanini, today certainly one of the most authoritative Italian experts on contemporary African art, in collaboration with Roberto Castello. The exhibition can be visited from 9 to 23 April on the occasion of the Wednesdays from Salmoni to SPAM! events in via Don Minzoni 34 in Porcari on 9, 16 and 23 April from 7:30 pm - by reservation, or by appointment from Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 4 pm, by calling the number 348.3213503.
"The reproductions of the works created by African artists - says Alessandro Romanini - testify not only to iconography, an aesthetic typology, but are bearers of a specific relationship with the surrounding reality, a relationship with collective history and individual memory, with the transmission of knowledge. Transmission of knowledge that in a continent where writing has very often been replaced by verbal communication, gives the image a significant importance. In the language of the various African countries there is no equivalent of the word art, but the creative act (painting, sculpture, photography, installation) becomes an act of service to the community. It can recall figures and languages of the past, often erased by the colonial administration and its educational system, as in the case of Yeanzi or serve to give voice to the so-called enfants de la rue (street children) as in the case of Boua or Aboudia, who have been able to create a visual syntax suitable for expressing these themes. It can also be a vehicle to recall symbols, fetishes, ritual objects or simply the character of a nation or a continent as in the case of Turay (Africa Vibes)”.
"All the works - concludes Romanini - are characterized by a compositional rhythm that is the result of the strong bond that the artists have with the sound, musical and dance dimension, understood as playful moments of sharing, as containers of ancestral memories (from blue to jazz to rap and Hip Hop) and above all as laboratories and spaces for negotiation. Music and Dance and the rhythm that unites them, the works are seen above all as tools capable of creating relationships, moments of sharing, faithful to a principle widespread in the African continent, linked to the word Ubuntu, "I am because I belong to a community", not as a single individual detached from social consensus".
For those interested: 348.3213503. Information and reservations for Wednesdays at Salmoni: https://www.aldesweb.org/progetti-locali/mercoledi-da-salmoni-2025-primavera.
See you at SPAM!, via Don Minzoni 34, Porcari, https://goo.gl/maps/gs1WKM232DW6c7qUA.