Question
Meschac Gaba made conceptual rooms featuring gilded chicken legs to question the absence of a contemporary African one of these institutions. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these institutions, the first African contemporary one of which was founded in 2017 in Cape Town. Gaba’s installation was acquired by one of these institutions named the Tate Modern.
ANSWER: art museums [or art galleries; accept Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa; accept Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997–2002]
[10m] Ibrahim El-Salahi, part of the Ḥurūfiyya movement incorporating this art form, was the first African modern artist featured in a Tate retrospective in 2013. Shirin Neshāt’s photos eschew stylistic conventions in this art form, which include naskh.
ANSWER: calligraphy [or khaṭṭ ʿArabī; accept khoshnevisi]
[10h] This artist said “it took a long time for the West to realize there is contemporary art in Africa” when commissioned to fill the Tate’s Turbine Hall. This Ghanaian artist reuses bottle caps for cloth-like pieces.
ANSWER: El Anatsui
<AS, Visual Arts>
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