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Materials:
chromogenic print
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Markings:
signed, titled, dated and numbered 6/12 on label bearing further information about the work in facsimile affixed to the frame verso
Exhibited:
Dusseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast,Africa Remix Contemporary Art of a Continent,24 July-7 November 2004, illustrated in colour in the catalogue p. 76 and on the cover; London, Hayward Gallery, 10 February-17 April 2005; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 24 May-15 August 2005; Tokyo, Mori Art Museum May-August 2006 (another example)
Literature:
Maria Francesca Bonetti & Guido Schlinkert,Samuel Fosso,5 Continents editions, Milan, 2004, illustrated in colour p. 146-147 (another example) ; John Parker, Richard Rathbone,African History: A Very Short Introduction, 22 March 2007, illustrated in black and white, p. 144 (another example); Chris Spring, Angaza Afrika African Art Now,2008, illustrated in colour, p. 110 (another example); Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu,Contemporary African Art Since 1980,2009,illustrated in colour p. 196 (another example); v.s naipaul,la masque de lafrique,Grasset, 2011,illustrated on the front cover with detail on the back cover (another example); Okwui Enwezor (ed.),Samuel Fosso:AUTOPORTRAIT,Steidl Verlag/The Walkther Collection, New York, 2020 (another example)
Provenance:
Galleria Extraspazio, Rome; Acquired from the above by the present owner