The Collective is in Brazil right now working with L3 Brazil for our exhibition at the Dakar Biennial in May 2010.
Radcliffe Bailey
Storm at Sea, 2006 Piano keys, African sculpture, model boat, paper, acrylic, glitter, and gold leaf 212 x 213 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York © Radcliffe Bailey
The work [...]
Pieter Hugo
YOSSI MILO GALLERY
525 West 25th Street
February 25–April 17
Taking pictures in Nigeria is a tricky business: Between a public savvy about the monetary value of commercial photography and a police force leery of external documentarians, one can spend weeks in Lagos or Abuja and come up short. This is not the case for artist Pieter [...]
Yinka Shonibare on film
The work of this artist is part of the archive created by the State of L3
(No Part of the Collective)
Clip of Shonibare from TV series, Art 21 (William Kentridge also stars).
Yinka Shonibare, MBE (born 1962) is a Nigerian contemporary artist living in Britain.
Biography
Yinka Shonibare is a relative to Sammy H.Jr and [...]
Meschac Gaba was born in Cotonou, Benin in 1961. He worked on his Museum of Contemporary African Art from 1997 to 2002, with an exhibition at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and at documenta 11. In his art, Meschac Gaba focuses on issues around intercultural balance and imbalance.
For more information about Gaba’s Museum, take a look [...]
Papa Adama (Adama Koudougou Sawadogo) is from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. At the age of 16, right after finishing high school, Papa Adama started his career as an autodidact. From 1998 till 2001 he was student and assistant of Ali Nikiema and specialized in bronze at the CNAA – Centre National Artisanal d’Art in Ouagadougou. The [...]
Neil Fortune (L3) 4 The Stedelijk Museum
“I went to bed one night and woke up in a different country, a state of mind. It sounds propitious and crazy, rather something, one would read in a fiction manuscript. My name is Neil SUM Fortune {1983}. I was born in Georgetown, Guyana. At the age of six, [...]
Kafui Awoonor 4 State of L3
Raul Balai 4 State of L3
Painter, graphic designer and illustrator, Raul Balai. “Free thinking is my strength”.
Folly Teko 4 State of L3
“I am an African artist. I combine my work more or less with philosophical views depending on the context. That’s how I call my work: contextual and engaged. No vagueness, no abstraction in the purest sense of the terms but a striving after the subject in art; [...]
Giordana Jansen Perret-Gentil 4 State of L3
On February 3 2010 Kehinde Wiley’s Unity Portrait series at the Espace de la Topographie de l’Art in Paris, France. The artist was present at the unveiling of the exhibition and spoke to a press-filled room, who snapped the series of four paintings (three individual portraits and one group painting) making up the Unity series. [...]
From Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, comes DREAMS IN A TIME OF WAR (Pantheon Books/ March 9, 2010/ $24.95), an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood.
One of Africa’s leading writers, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya. Even as World War II [...]
Isaac Julien, WESTERN:UNION: small boats; Three-screen installation; 18 mins, Super 16mm, HD Transfer to DVD, 5.1 Sound
To extend on the exhibitions educative value, puma.creative and Creative Africa Network awarded Isaac Julien a Mobility Award to be present at the exhibition, to participate in the biennale, and to conduct a series of workshops for students at [...]
Kara Walker is a contemporary African American Artist
Born November 26, 1969. As an Artist she explores race, sexuality, gender, identity and violence in her work. She has become perhaps best known for her room sized black paper cut silhouette installations.
She is in my opinion one of the most interesting artists of our time.
She is an [...]
Abdoulaye Armine Kane (L3 Collective) is a painter, sculptor, video maker. He lives and works in Dakar, where he also graduated from the Art Academy. He participated in group exhibitions in Senegal and abroad.
His videos offer an opportunity for audio and visual expression. As his first effort, he presented a video at the DakArt in [...]
Together with puma.creative, Africa Express invited over 130 artists to perform as part of a seven hour-long free concert at Paris’ Hotel De Ville to an audience of over 16,000 people. The aim: to create global exposure for African music by combining the sounds of already globally recognized Western artists with African music talents [...]
Photograph by Zanele Muholi, South Africa, as part of the Borders exhibition
Held in Bamako, Mali from 7 November to 7 December this year, the Bamako Encounters African Photography Biennale is considered the most important exhibition of African photography in the world. This year the biennale featured 58 artists selected from all over the globe for [...]
Held in Bamako, Mali from 7 November to 7 December this year, the Bamako Encounters African Photography Biennale is considered the most important exhibition of African photography in the world. This year the biennale featured 58 artists selected from all over the globe for their affiliation to Africa, exhibited in a variety of venues throughout [...]
Contemporary Arts & Film Collective Exchange Established in 2006
The State of L3 is an Amsterdam based art collective working internationally on art, multimedia exchanges, modern tendencies and political issues.
The State of L3 is founded, curated and directed by Antonio Jose Guzman
Cultural Exchange Coordination by OLAA
The State of L3 archive library collection is originally based on our projects as a collective and the works of international artists who inspire our projects.
The State of L3 is sponsored by:
VSB Fonds
Mondriaan Foundation
Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development
The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
2010-2011 Exhibitions
Dakar Biennale
Senegal, May
Maison de l’Amérique Latine
Paris, June
Gallery 23
Amsterdam, June/July
Smart Project Space
Amsterdam, July/August
SANAA Gallery
Utrecht, September
M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art
Antwerp, Nov/Dec/Jan
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8 April – 22 May 2011
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