Masters of Transvangarde

Transvangarde is a type of post avant garde art.  And your guess is as good as mine as to what that actually means.

I wonder if there is a link between the October Gallery and the British Museum as I have seen three artists (El Anatsui, Owusu-Ankomah and Rachid Koraichi) exhibiting in both places.

In this exhibition there was work by the following artists:

El Anatsui, Ghana
Ninenna Okore, Nigeria
Owusu-Ankomah, Ghana
Willian S Burroughs, USA
Brion Gysin, England
Gerald Wilde, England
Kenji Yoshida, Japan
Rachid Koraichi, Algeria
Golnaz Fathi, Iran
Govinda Singh, Nepal
Lala Shawa, Palestine
Julien Sinzogan, Benin
Aubrey Willians, Guyana

Circuses of the World

There is currently a small exhibition at the Roundhouse of photos taken from circus projects around the world.

There are photos from the following projects:

Phare Ponleu Selpak, Battambang, Cambodia
Zip Zap Circus School, Cape Town, South Africa
Circo Para Todos, Kali, Columbia
Sapana Circus, Kathmandu, Nepal
Roundhouse Street Circus Project, London

SOAS Special Collections

There was no photography allowed in the SOAS Special Collections, which is a bit of a shame.  They had a lot of different things from art to artifacts.  African art seems to pop up in unexpected places!


African art:

Matooke (Green Banana) by J Muyango, a student from Makerere University,  Uganda, was painted for an exam in the early 1960s.  This was my favourite thing in the gallery.

Colourful Slum by Ehigbor Iyoghioje from Nigeria painted in 2000.

Mother and Child by Margaret Towel from the 1940s, Uganda.

Akaba People's Prodigal Son (at least I think that's what it was called when I try to read my notes) by Kyalo son of Ngila from Kenya.

There was also a Nepalese Buddhist manuscript made from gouache ink and paper of Karandavyuha (Manifestation of Appearances according to the Gallery) and an Armenian manuscript.