Debuting amid the 2022 edition of the Dak'art Biennial, Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022—curated by Guillaume de Sardes, Hélène Joubert, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, and Ousseynou Wade, with project managers Chih-Chia Chung, Safia Belmenouar, Sophie Daynes-Diallo, Sarah Lagrevol—brought together works from four lending institutions: from France, the Musée Picasso and Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac; and in Senegal, the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art as well as the host venue, the Museum of Black Civilizations (Fig. 1). The exhibition marked the passage of fifty years since a solo show of the Spanish artist's work appeared at the now defunct Musée Dynamique, Dakar's first art museum to be built under the supervision of independent Senegal's inaugural president, Léopold Sédar Senghor. To revisit this 1972 moment in 2022 was to implicitly remind audiences of the city's enduring status as an African superconductor in the circuitry of the global art...
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Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022 curated by Guillaume de Sardes, Hélène Joubert, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, and Ousseynou Wade
Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022 curated
by Guillaume
de Sardes
, Hélène
Joubert
, El Hadji Malick
Ndiaye
, and Ousseynou
Wade
Museum of Black Civilizations
, Dakar, Senegal
April 1-June 30, 2022
Lauren Taylor
Lauren Taylor
Lauren Taylor is an assistant professor of Art History and African Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. [email protected]
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Lauren Taylor
Lauren Taylor is an assistant professor of Art History and African Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. [email protected]
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2023 by the Regents of the University of California
2023
Regents of the University of California
African Arts (2023) 56 (4): 80–83.
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Lauren Taylor; Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022 curated by Guillaume de Sardes, Hélène Joubert, El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, and Ousseynou Wade. African Arts 2023; 56 (4): 80–83. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00731
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