Double Expresso, Double Expression: Live installation by Thulani Earnshaw

I would like to invite you to an upcoming exhibition at the Center for Contemporary African Art & Culture (Aih). For Black History month, we are featuring an artist from
Swaziland, by the name of Thulani Earnshaw.He creates installations and does live performances, and has had shows all over Africa (Egypt, South Africa, Swaziland), the UK, and the US.

Double Expresso, Double Expression is an interactive exhibit, where the art work will be created by the audience. I can't give the whole show away, its a surprise, but I know
you will enjoy it. This display will be followed with a lecture by Thulani. You don't want  to miss this!!

I hope to see you there.

Eternal Bliss,

Fanta Celah,
Fine Artist & Curator




For Immediate Release:
Febuary 10th, 2011
Double Expresso, Double Expression
6pm- 8pm

Installation by Thulani Earnshaw
Curated by Fanta Celah

The Center for Contemporary African & Art Culture
6200 S Drexel (Harris Park)
Chicago, IL 60637
773.955.ARTS (2787)

Thulani Earnshaw is an artist. A very serious artist. He creates work that comments on the generalized specificity of a technological and sexualized society. The particularity of
his work rests on the notion of touch, taste, smell, and the combination of color, line, & form. The artists use of material has become like an extension of the body, no different to
 clothe or hair. Installation is a highly contemporary & cutting edge art form that touches on the immediacy of life. Similar to the simplicity of a painting, describing how light hits an
 object.

"I, as an artist, have no reason to state my International Origin any more. I have no reason to state my nationality any more."

"Globalization of art has created a vacuum of anti-aesthetic art that deals with creating rituals of dis-affirmation. For me to say that I am international is the same as saying that I would like  to set up a new sweat shop in a new country." - Thulani Earnshaw

This sentiment appears to be different today, but it is no different than what has occurred for  the last 8 thousand years.


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