Bourgeois and Twins Seven Seven? Sign me up.Twenty years ago, Magiciens de la Terre opened at the Pompidou in Paris. The seminal exhibition positioned local folk (and/or if you prefer) "outsider" art alongside renown contemporaries, drawing parallels through seemingly juxtaposed aesthetics and, more importantly, challenging ethnocentric tendencies in the contemporary art world by including a sweeping sampling of artists from all over the world. Back to the Earth: Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre should prove to give a fresh context in an art scene that has 'globalized' exponentially since the original Magicians of the Earth opened. (Hopefully not so much so that it will seem a moot point, though.) Regardless, the exhibition has an all-star roster and is up through December 5 @ Fleisher/Ollman. Artists will include John Baldessari (United States), Jose Bedia (Cuba), Alighiero e Boetti (Italy), Erik Boulatov (Russia), Louise Bourgeois (United States), Francesco Clemente (Italy), Bowa Devi (India), Alfredo Jaar (Chile), Kane Kwei (Ghana), Per Kirkeby (Denmark), Agbagli Kossi (Togo), Georges Liautaud (Haiti), Felipe Linares (Mexico), Henry Munyaradzi (Zimbabwe), Claes Oldenburg (United States), Sigmar Polke (Germany), Twins Seven Seven (Nigeria), Nancy Spero (United States), Acharya Vyakul (India), Zush (Spain).
Image: Mannequin, Léo Fraillon from the seminal 1989 exhibition in Paris.
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