Art Calendar, 20 July 2022

Ghosts Of Empire II, curated by Larry Ossel-Mensah

at Ben Brown Fine Arts London.

15 September - 22 October 2022.

Adam de Boer, Fool's Cap Map of the World no.3, 2022, Batik and oil paint on linen, hand carved teak artist's frame, 41 x 39.5 x 1.25 inches

©Ben Brown Fine Arts London

Düsseldorf, 20. July 2022: London's Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery announces the exhibition Ghosts of Empires ll, following Ghosts of Empires l in Hong Kong earlier this year. This exhibition was curated by renowned Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic Larry Ossei-Mensah. 

The exhibition explores the impact between the imperialist trade routes of the Black Atlantic and Asia and brings together an exceptional group of contemporary artists from the African and Asian diasporas.

Larry Ossei-Mensah was inspired by British-Ghanaian author and Member of Parliament Kwasi Kwarteng's text, Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World. At its core, it is about how artists from the African and Asian diasporas use their artistic practice as a platform to engage with the legacy of slavery, migration, colonialism, imperialism, trade and sovereignty in the contemporary world. 

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Kwasi Kwarteng - 'Ghosts of Empire'

"After reading Kwasi Kwarteng's book 'Ghosts of Empire', I became aware of the spectre of colonialism and imperialism in our macro and micro environment and wanted to explore the role art and culture play in opening up this issue to a wider audience. Given what is happening in all parts of the world, it seemed appropriate to me to organise an exhibition that not only expresses the nuances of the black and Asian diasporic experience, but also asks questions about how these communities have survived and shaped the cultural fabric of our global society." Larry Ossei-Mensah

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The artists in this exhibition are: Hurvin Anderson, Adam de Boer, Delphine Desane, Theaster Gates, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Tidawhitney Lek, Chris Ofili, Fadekemi Ogunsanya, Maia Cruz Palileo, Miguel Angel Payano Jr, Paul Anthony Smith, Zao Wou-Ki and Livien Yin.

Various media will be on display: The artists work with painting, photography, sculpture, textiles and a variety of mixed media

"This exhibition will highlight the omissions in the historical narratives we have been taught that focus on cultural differences and show the various intersections within these communities. There are a variety of communities that were oppressed due to colonisation and imperialism and yet were able to thrive and create rich cultures that have a great impact on society today."

Larry Ossei-Mensah

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This is Ben Brown Fine Arts' second exhibition of Ghosts of Empires. The first Ghosts of Empires I was shown at Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hong Kong earlier this year.

Tidawhitney Lek, Leaving, 2022, acrylic and oil on canvas, 117 x 91.5cm (48 x 36 in.)

©Ben Brown Fine Arts London

Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, Long Beach, CA) 

Tidawhitney Lek is a Cambodian-American painter. Her work plays with narrative and the Asian experiences of first-generation Americans. These bright and somber paintings present nuances of domesticity, figures, and hands interacting in composition as culture and Southeast-Asian elements echo through mundane objects found in places like the home. She reinvents the traditional and conventional mediums like pastel, acrylic, and oil paints on canvas, interchanging textures as pictorial spaces recede and soften. 

Maia Cruz Palileo, Abaniko, 2022, Oil on canvas,

101.6 x 76.2 cm; (40 x 30 in.)

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Maia Cruz Palileo (b. 1979, Chicago, IL) 

Maia Cruz Palileo is a multi-disciplinary, Brooklyn-based artist. Migration and the permeable concept of home are constant themes in the artist’s work. Influenced by the oral history of Palileo family’s arrival in the United States from the Philippines, as well as the history between the two countries, the artist infuses these narratives using both memory and imagination. When stories and memories are subjected to time and constant retelling, the narratives become questionable, bordering the line between fact and fiction, while remaining cloaked in the convincingly familiar. 

Livien Yin, Poppies, 2022, Acrylic on linen,

137.2 x 106.7 cm; (54 x 42 in.)

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Livien Yin (b. 1990, Cambridge, MA) 

Livien Yin is an artist currently living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her practice is primarily focused on painting and sculpture. She received her MFA in Art Practice at Stanford University and her BA in Studio Art at Reed College. She has been awarded a 2021 Nō Studios Visual Art Grant, 2019-2020 Graduate Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts, the 2019 American Austrian Foundation/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts, and recently completed an artist residency at the Marble House Project in Dorset, Vermont. Yin had her debut solo exhibition, Paper Suns, in 2021 at The New Gallery in Calgary, Alberta. 

Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Sugarcane Milkfish, 2021-22, Oil on canvas, weaving and machine knit sewn to canvas, pastel, resin, epoxy,

 172.7 x 162.6 cm; (68 x 64 in.)

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Jeanne F. Jalandoni (b. 1993, New York, NY) 

Jeanne F. Jalandoni is a painter and textile artist born and based in New York City. Her work navigates Filipino American cultural identity through personal research on historic Western influences on the Philippines, family archives, and personal experience growing up as a second-generation American who has never been to the Philippines. She uses national symbols such as the carabao, bangus, and mangoes to express characteristics she associates with her biculturalism, aiming to redefine their meaning and reclaim the Filipino American narrative.

Ben Brown Fine Artists

In 2004, Ben Brown Fine Arts opened its first location in Mayfair, London. The gallery became well known on the international art scene with exhibitions by artists such as Candida Höfer, Tony Bevan, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne and Heinz Mack, as well as 20th century masters such as Lucio Fontana, Alighiero Boetti and Gerhard Richter. In 2009, Ben Brown Fine Arts opened an exhibition space in Hong Kong, making it the first international gallery to set up shop in the city. In 2021, Ben Brown Fine Arts opened a third location in Palm Beach, Florida, with an inaugural exhibition celebrating the legacy of 20th century American and European artists, including Alexander Calder, Georg Baselitz and Andy Warhol.

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Larry Ossei-Mensah

A Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic, Larry Ossei-Mensah has organised exhibitions and programmes at commercial and non-profit institutions around the world. Born in the Bronx, Ossei-Mensah is the co-founder of ARTNOIR, a global collective that aims to address the diverse creative class of this generation and celebrate the artistry of black and brown artists around the world.  He contributed to the first-ever Ghanaian pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with an essay on the work of visual artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. He currently serves as Curator-at-Large at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), where he curates the NY Times heralded exhibition Let Freedom Ring and FLOATING WORLD OF THE CLOUD QUILT, a solo exhibition by Saya Woolfalk. In 2021, Ossei-Mensah was also co-curator of the 7th Athens Biennial - ECLIPSE with OMSK Social Club. 

Ossei-Mensah's work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Artsy, Cultured Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Monocle, Ocula, WWD, The Robb Report and Artnet.

Instagram: @larryosseimensah

Twitter: @youngglobal

Ghosts Of Empire II, curated by Larry Ossel-Mensah

15 September - 22 October 2022

Ben Brown Fine Arts London

12 Brook's Mews, London W1K 4DG

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German version below.

10 July 2022 Fashion / Art

Maison Valentino The Beginning Haute Couture FW 22 23 - 8 July 2022 Spanish Steps in Rome. "Beauty comes from harmony" says Pierpaolo Piccioli, referring also to the harmony of society. The magic hour began when the sun set on the Spanish Steps on 8 July 2022, bathing the houses in a golden light. Valentino beings strode down the Spanish Steps and went to the historic Valentino Atelier in Piazza Mignanelli. The concept: Pierpaolo Piccioli wants to bring the people and ideas that were once on the margins into focus, to make them protagonists. An idea that expands the spectrum of beauty.

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Environment & Art - 12 July 2022

THE FINAL BID by Michael Pinsky

30.10.2022–26.02.2023

Open Call: Your chair can become part of an art project! For the exhibition THE FINAL BID by British artist Michael Pinsky, the Draiflessen Collection would like to borrow chairs that are no longer needed to create a moving sculpture in the museum. In return, the museum will try to sell your chair, with all proceeds going to you or donated to a charitable project.

Also on view by Michael Pinsky: POLLUTION PODS

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©Michael Pinsky

Kunstkalendar, 20 July 2022

Ghosts Of Empire II, kuratiert von Larry Ossel-Mensah

bei Ben Brown Fine Arts London.

15. September - 22. Oktober 2022

Düsseldorf, 20. Juli 2022: Die Londoner Galerie Ben Brown Fine Arts kündigt die Ausstellung Ghosts of Empires ll an, nachdem im Frühjahr Ghosts of Empires l in Hongkong gezeigt wurde. Kuratiert wurde diese Ausstellung vom bekannten ghanaisch-amerikanischen Kurator und Kulturkritiker Larry Ossei-Mensah. 

Die Ausstellung untersucht die Auswirkungen zwischen den imperialistischen Handelsrouten des schwarzen Atlantiks und Asiens und bringt eine außergewöhnliche Gruppe zeitgenössischer Künstler aus der afrikanischen und asiatischen Diaspora zusammen.

Larry Ossei-Mensah wurde inspiriert durch den Text des britisch-ghanaischen Autors und Parlamentsabgeordneten Kwasi Kwarteng, Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World. Im Kern geht es darum, wie Künstler aus der afrikanischen und asiatischen Diaspora ihre künstlerische Praxis als Plattform nutzen, um sich mit dem Erbe von Sklaverei, Migration, Kolonialismus, Imperialismus, Handel und Souveränität in der heutigen Zeit auseinanderzusetzen. 

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Kwasi Kwarteng - ‚Ghosts of Empire'

"Nach der Lektüre von Kwasi Kwartengs Buch 'Ghosts of Empire' wurde ich auf das Gespenst des Kolonialismus und Imperialismus in unserer Makro- und Mikroumgebung aufmerksam und wollte untersuchen, welche Rolle Kunst und Kultur dabei spielen, dieses Thema für ein breiteres Publikum zu öffnen. In Anbetracht der Geschehnisse in allen Teilen der Welt erschien es mir angemessen, eine Ausstellung zu organisieren, die nicht nur die Nuancen der schwarzen und asiatischen Diaspora-Erfahrung zum Ausdruck bringt, sondern auch Fragen dazu stellt, wie diese Gemeinschaften überlebt und das kulturelle Gefüge unserer globalen Gesellschaft geprägt haben." Larry Ossei-Mensah

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Die Künstler dieser Ausstellung sind: Hurvin Anderson, Adam de Boer, Delphine Desane, Theaster Gates, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Tidawhitney Lek, Chris Ofili, Fadekemi Ogunsanya, Maia Cruz Palileo, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Paul Anthony Smith, Zao Wou-Ki und Livien Yin.

Verschiedene Medien werden zu sehen sein: Die Künstler arbeiten mit Malerei, Fotografie, Bildhauerei, Textilien und einer Vielzahl gemischter Medie

"Diese Ausstellung wird die Versäumnisse in den historischen Erzählungen aufzeigen, die uns beigebracht wurden und die sich auf die kulturellen Unterschiede konzentrieren und die verschiedenen Überschneidungen innerhalb dieser Gemeinschaften aufzeigen. Es gibt eine Vielzahl von Gemeinschaften, die aufgrund von Kolonialisierung und Imperialismus unterdrückt wurden und trotzdem in der Lage waren, zu gedeihen und reiche Kulturen zu schaffen, die einen großen Einfluss auf die heutige Gesellschaft haben.“

Larry Ossei-Mensah

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Es ist bereits die zweite Ausstellung von Ben Brown Fine Arts zu Ghosts of Empires. Die erste Ghosts of Empires I wurde Anfang des Jahres bei Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hongkong gezeigt.

Ben Brown Fine Artists

Im Jahr 2004 eröffnete Ben Brown Fine Arts seinen ersten Standort in Mayfair, London. Die Galerie wurde in der internationalen Kunstszene bekannt mit Ausstellungen von Künstlern wie Candida Höfer, Tony Bevan, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne und Heinz Mack sowie von Meistern des 20. Jahrhunderts wie Lucio Fontana, Alighiero Boetti und Gerhard Richter. Im Jahr 2009 eröffnete Ben Brown Fine Arts einen Ausstellungsraum in Hongkong und war damit die erste internationale Galerie, die sich in der Stadt niederließ. Im Jahr 2021 eröffnete Ben Brown Fine Arts einen dritten Standort in Palm Beach, Florida, mit einer Eröffnungsausstellung, die das Erbe amerikanischer und europäischer Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts feiert, darunter Alexander Calder, Georg Baselitz und Andy Warhol. Ben Brown Fine Arts nimmt an den wichtigsten Kunstmessen weltweit teil, darunter Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel Miami Beach, The Armory Show, Frieze Masters, TEFAF Maastricht, TEFAF New York und West Bund Art & Design.

Instagram: @benbrownfinearts / Facebook: /BenBrownFineArts / Twitter: @BenBrownFineArt

Larry Ossei-Mensah

Der ghanaisch-amerikanische Kurator und Kulturkritiker hat Ausstellungen und Programme in kommerziellen und gemeinnützigen Einrichtungen auf der ganzen Welt organisiert. Der in der Bronx geborene Ossei-Mensah ist Mitbegründer von ARTNOIR, einem globalen Kollektiv, das sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, die vielfältige kreative Klasse dieser Generation anzusprechen und das künstlerische Schaffen schwarzer und brauner Künstler auf der ganzen Welt zu feiern. 

Ossei-Mensah hat mit einem Essay über die Arbeit der bildenden Künstlerin Lynette Yiadom-Boakye zum allerersten ghanaischen Pavillon auf der Biennale von Venedig 2019 beigetragen. Derzeit arbeitet er als Curator-at-Large an der Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), wo er die von der NY Times angekündigte Ausstellung Let Freedom Ring und FLOATING WORLD OF THE CLOUD QUILT, eine Einzelausstellung von Saya Woolfalk, kuratiert. Im Jahr 2021 war Ossei-Mensah auch Ko-Kurator der 7. Athen Biennale - ECLIPSE mit dem OMSK Social Club. 

Kürzlich kuratierte Ossei-Mensah Purring Monsters mit Miiros on their Back mit Guadalupe Maravilla im MCA Denver. Außerdem kuratierte er die erste museale Einzelausstellung des ghanaischen Malers Amoako Boafo, Soul of Black Folks, im Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, und im Contemporary Art Museum Houston, die derzeit bis Herbst 2022 zu sehen ist. Ossei-Mensahs Arbeiten wurden in Publikationen wie The New York Times, Artsy, Cultured Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Monocle, Ocula, WWD, The Robb Report und Artnet vorgestellt, um nur einige zu nennen.

Ghosts Of Empire II, curated by Larry Ossel-Mensah

15 September - 22 October 2022

Ben Brown Fine Arts London

12 Brook's Mews, London W1K 4DG

benbrownfinearts.com