Bili Bidjocka
Current Review(s)
'Fiction#1: Autobiography without form of Bernado Soares'
Bili Bidjocka at Goodman Gallery CapeBili Bidjocka is one of those rare artists whose work satisfies visually on first viewing, granting an immediate gratification of the senses, while continuing to yield further depths of meaning on consideration of the artist’s intentions and earlier work. A win-win situation for his audience.
Bidjocka is a master of surface and for his first solo exhibition in South Africa, at Goodman Gallery Cape, the artist spent a residency at the gallery working with the women of the Beloved Beadwork collective, using the tiny glittering glass seed beads as an integral element in all the works. Beads have been used through the centuries by craftsmen to embellish and decorate, but have probably been seldom – if ever – before applied to the surfaces of digital photographs printed on canvas.
17 September 2009 - 10 October 2009
Listings(s)
FICTION #1: Autobiography without form of Bernardo Soares
Bili Bidjocka at Goodman Gallery CapeBili Bidjocka presents a solo show at Goodman Gallery Cape during September and October. In this show he brings to bear his experiences of Cape Town and its people, which inform his heightened awareness of the extremes of beauty and vulnerabilty.
The first of a series of exhibitions to take place globally, it is conceived as an onirique wandering through the life of Bernardo Soares, both a character and one of the heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese author of The Book of Disquiet who, coincidentally, grew up in Durban at the turn of the twentieth century.
17 September 2009 - 10 October 2009
Fiction #1
Bili Bidjocka at Goodman Gallery Project SpaceThis solo exhibition by Paris-based Cameroonian Bidjoka is a tour through the life of Bernardo Soares, a fictional literary character and one of the heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, author of the Portuguese classic novel The Book of Disquiet.
06 February 2010 - 06 March 2010
'Fiction#1: Autobiography without form of Bernado Soares'
Bili Bidjocka at Goodman Gallery Capexxx
17 September 2009 - 10 October 2009
Luanda Triennial 2010: 'Emotional Geography: Art and Effects'
Bili Bidjocka, Chris Ofili, Ghada Amer and Kendell Geers at Cha de CaxindeThe second Triennial de Luanda is 'much bigger and more organic than the first', according to director Fernando Alvim, director of the Sindika Dokolo Foundation, the largest collection of contemporary African art in the world.The three month event includes seven main exhibitions with 400 works presented, ranging from architecture, performance, and design, to painting, photography, sculpture, fashion, music and dance. As in the first Triennial, which took place in 2007, the educational programme is of key importance, and more than 100 schools and 70 000 students from across the country with be introduced to art through the Triennial. All events are free.
Alongside established and emerging Angolan artists, international artists participating include Chris Ofili, Kendell Geers, Ghada Amer and Bili Bidjocka.
12 September 2010 - 19 December 2010
