A Fateful Journey: Africain the Works of ElAnatsui

摘要

For a long time, the global art scene paid little attention to African contemporary art. It was only after the exhibition ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ held in Paris in 1989 that a drastic change happened. A total of seventeen African artists were invited to that exhibition and their works were shown together with those of famous Western artists such as Richard Long and Barbara Kruger. Since then, the international art-world, led by the West.