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 [...]
Journeys through the Black Atlantic
Renee Cox: River Queen, from Queen Nanny of the Maroons 2004
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic: Friday, 29th January 2010 – Sunday, 25th April 2010 in Liverpool UK.
This major exhibition, inspired by Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), identifies a hybrid culture that spans [...]
From the Tissandier Brothers Archive
The Tissandier collection
The Tissandier collection is a collection of two French brothers, Albert and Gaston, who were interested in science and especially (balloon)flight. The images cover most of the aeronautic experiences in Europe in the nineteenth century, as well as diverse designs for flying machines, and in fact every that is [...]
Raul Balai 4 State of L3
Quinsy Gario (1984) was born on the sunny island of Curacao and although he’s now living in the Netherlands, his Caribbean disposition can still be found in his work. This disposition consists of the ability to use the movement of words, sounds and thoughts and fuse them with a new understanding. In his work he [...]
Design Richard A. Broeksema. Found and used chairframes, upholstered with special materials.
Richard A. Broeksema
Black art is not about your skin color
it is about the cage
A cage as a concept that grounds us, defines us, protects us, pleases us and teases us, involuntarily and voluntarily. Human life as concept is like a cage. An absolute concept because you cannot step out of it, unless you never want to be [...]
Arterial Network announcing call to African artists!
The British Council have made available 5 sponsored places for African artists at the fourth meeting of the Tipping Point Conference on Art and Climate Change to be held at Spier Estate, Stellenbosch, Cape Town from 24 -26 May. Sponsorship covers an economy class return airfare, airport transfers, accommodation [...]
Humberto Vélez
Humberto Vélez’s work actively explores the possibilities of working in collaboration with different groups (artists and handcrafters, special communities, athletes, musicians and groups conformed especially for the project), in different places and cultures. The artistic projects are conceived from what he calls “the ability to create esthetics” of, for, and with these groups, according [...]
Pepe Danquart’s Oscar-winning short film (Germany), presented here with English subtitles.
It’s a short film about an Afro German who endures racist talk from a German woman.
Schwarzfahrer (also known as Black Rider) is a 1993 German 12-minute short film directed by Pepe Danquart. It won an Academy Award in 1994 for Best Short [...]
Sara Langedijk 4 State of L3
Jona de Bokx 4 State of L3
Jimmy Rage aka Femi Dawkins was born in St Catherine – Jamaica in 1966. He has lived in the Caribbean, New York, San Francisco, London and Los Angeles. He now lives and works between Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
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 [...]
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
Galleri Image
Vestergade 29
8000 Århus C
“Piertopia”
8 April – 22 May 2011
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