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Materials:
C-print
Size Notes:
85.8 x 86.5cm.
Edition:
Executed in 1997, this work is number five from an edition of eight
Description:
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Markings:
signed 'Samuel Fosso'
Exhibited:
Rome, Calcografia, Samuel Fosso, 2004 (another version , illustrated in colour, pp. 146-147). This exhibition later travelled to Verona, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri.Dusseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, 2004-2006 (another from the edition , illustrated in colour on the front cover; illustrated in colour, p. 76). This exhibition later travelled to London, Hayward Gallery; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and Tokyo, Mori Art Museum.
Literature:
L. Warren (ed.), Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, New York 2006, p. 550.R. Hylton, The Nature of the Beast: Cultural Diversity and the Visual Arts Sector, Bath 2007 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). J. Parker & R. Rathbone, African History: A Very Short Introduction, London 2007 (illustrated, p. 144). C. Spring, Angaza Afrika, London 2008 (illustrated in colour, p. 110).B. Binder, D. Neuland-Kitzerow & K. Noack (eds.), Berliner Bltter: Ethnographische und ethnologische Beitrage, Mnster 2008 (illustrated, p. 37). O. Enwezor & C. Okeke-Agulu, Contemporary African Art Since 1980, Chicago 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 196). S. Njami, Samuel Fosso: Dorian Gray Bangui, Paris 2010 (illustrated in colour, unpaged). V. S. Naipaul, Le Masque de lAfrique, Paris 2011 (illustrated in colour on the front cover; detail illustrated in colour on the back cover). C. Spring, African Textiles Today, London 2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 225).V. Godeau, La Photographie Africaine Contemporaine, Paris 2015, p. 29. O. Enwezor (ed.), Samuel Fosso: AUTOPORTRAIT, Gttingen 2020 (illustrated in colour, pp. 105 & 341).
Provenance:
Jean Marc Patras, Paris. Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2003). Stevenson, Cape Town. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012.