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词条 Kimathi Donkor
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career and works

  3. Curating and art education

  4. Selected solo exhibitions

  5. Selected group exhibitions

  6. References

  7. Further reading

  8. External links

Kimathi Donkor (born in 1965) is a contemporary British artist whose large-scale figurative paintings are "genuine cornucopias of interwoven reference: to Western art, social and political events, and to the artist's own biography".[1] Based in London, UK, he has family connections in Jamaica, Zambia, Nigeria and Ghana.[2]

Early life and education

Donkor was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1965.[3] He has said of his background: "I was born in the UK to an Anglo-Jewish mother and Ghanaian father, but was raised by my adopted parents who were from Jamaica and the UK. We lived for a time in Zambia, Central Africa, where my adopted dad worked as a vet. I finished my schooling in the west of England, then moved to London, where I eventually settled. In the meantime, my adopted parents had divorced and remarried, so the family diversity actually increased, as Zambians also joined the party. This smörgåsbord life induced an early sense of the wondrous, and sometimes maddening, complexity of identities and histories, which, I think, has been reflected in my artworks. Precisely because I was such an intimate witness to the multiple crossings and re-crossings of stories, images and journeys from around the world."[4]

Donkor received an Art Foundation Diploma from Bournemouth and Poole College of Arts followed by a BA (Hons) degree in fine art from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a master's degree in fine art at Camberwell College of Arts.[5][6] He also participated in community education initiatives such as Black History for Action.[7] In 2011, he was the recipient of the Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship for the British School at Rome.

Career and works

Donkor’s history paintings "fearlessly tackle key, dramatic, monumental moments of African diaspora history ... with a painterly preciseness that borders on aesthetic frugality", according to art historian Eddie Chambers.[8] In 2005, Time Out magazine reported that officers from London’s Metropolitan Police had entered the Bettie Morton Gallery to demand the removal of one the artist’s paintings, Helping With Enquiries (1984), from his solo exhibition Fall/Uprising (which addressed policing controversies). Gallery staff refused to comply and police later issued a statement that "no further action" would be taken against the painter.[9]

The artist's "Queens of the Undead" paintings[10] depict historic female commanders from Africa[11] and the African Diaspora,[12] but with contemporary Londoners as models.[13] Prior to featuring in Donkor’s 2012 solo show at London’s Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), some works from the series were exhibited at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo, Brazil, for the 29th São Paulo Biennial in 2010.[3]

Caroline Menezes suggested that Donkor’s work, "articulates a hidden history, tales of the past and chronicles of suppressed voices",[2] with figures such as Nanny of the Maroons, Nzinga Mbande, Stephen Lawrence, Joy Gardner, Toussaint L'Ouverture[14] and Jean Charles de Menezes among the subjects addressed.[15] Writing about his 2013, London solo show, Daddy, I want to be a black artist, Yvette Greslé proposed Donkor as “one of the most significant figurative painters, of his generation, working in the United Kingdom today”.[6]

Curating and art education

In 2008, Donkor was commissioned to curate the touring group show Hawkins & Co at Liverpool's Contemporary Urban Centre,[16] featuring 70 works by 15 artists, including Raimi Gbadamosi, Keith Piper, George "Fowokan" Kelly and Chinwe Chukwuogo Roy MBE. The show, which toured to Liverpool from London, marked the bicentenary of Parliament's Act to Abolition the Slave Trade.[17] In 2009, Donkor embarked on a three-year project at Tate Britain, Seeing Through, which engaged a group of young people from London foster homes in producing and exhibiting art at the museum.[18]

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 2013 Daddy, I want to be a black artist, Peckham Space, London
  • 2012 Queens of the Undead, with InIVA at Rivington Place, London
  • 2008 Hawkins & Co, Market Theatre Gallery, Armagh, Northern Ireland
  • 2005 Fall/Uprising, Bettie Morton Gallery, London
  • 2005 Caribbean Passion: Haiti 1804, Art Exchange Gallery (touring), Nottingham
  • 2004 Caribbean Passion: Haiti 1804, Bettie Morton Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions

  • 2013 [https://archive.is/20140203191314/http://xerem.org/en/2013/11/workshop-internacional-de-artistas-triangle-network-offline-entre-transitos-e-viagens-2/ Entre Trânsitos e Viagens], Carpintaria São Lazaro, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2013 [https://web.archive.org/web/20140225033806/http://www.thecollectionmuseum.com/?%2Fexhibitions-and-events%2Fview%2Fwhats-going-on-permanent-collection-rehang What's Going On], The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
  • 2012 Invisible Forces, Furtherfield, London
  • 2011 Seven Things To Do In An Emergency, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
  • 2010 29th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2008 Hawkins & Co, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK
  • 2004 Historicism, 198 Contemporary Art & Learning, London
  • 1985 Young, Black & Here, People's Gallery, London
  • 1985 Artists Against Apartheid, Royal Festival Hall, London

References

1. ^Coline Milliard, "Kimathi Donkor - 'Queens of the Undead'" (review), Blouinartinfo, 2 November 2012.
2. ^1 Caroline Menezes, "Retelling history through art — and interview with Kimathi Donkor", Studio International, 5 December 2012.
3. ^1 Agnaldo Farias; Moacir dos Anjos; Adrian Piper; et al. 29th Bienal de São Paulo catalogue: there is always a cup of sea to sail in. São Paulo: Fundac̦ão Bienal de São Paulo, 2010. {{ISBN|9788585298333}}; {{ISBN|8585298332}}.
4. ^Philip Kaisary, "An interview with Kimathi Donkor", Lacuna Magazine, 18 February 2015.
5. ^{{cite web|title=CV|url=http://www.kimathidonkor.net/resources/kimathi_donkor_cv_2016.pdf|website=Kimathi Donkor|accessdate=4 August 2017}}
6. ^1 Yvette Greslé, "Kimathi Donkor: ‘Daddy, I want to be a black artist’ @ Peckham Space", FAD, 3 October 2013.
7. ^{{cite web|last1=Menezes|first1=Caroline|title=Retelling history through art – an interview with Kimathi Donkor, Studio International|url=http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/retelling-history-through-art-an-interview-with-kimathi-donkor|website=Studio International - Visual Arts, Design and Architecture|publisher=The Studio Trust.|accessdate=9 February 2017|language=en-gb}}
8. ^Eddie Chambers (2013): [https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2013.782156 "Reading the Riot Act"], Visual Culture in Britain, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2013. DOI:10.1080/14714787.2013.782156.
9. ^Rebecca Taylor, "Brixton Gallery raided by Met", Time Out, 9–16 November 2005, p. 16.
10. ^"Kimathi Donkor: Queens of the Undead", 12 September – 24 November 2012, iniva.
11. ^Lara Pawson,, "Kimathi Donkor - Iniva, London" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228123213/http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/kimathi-donkor/ |date=2014-02-28 }}, Frieze Magazine, 19 November 2012.
12. ^Lara Pawson, [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/04/downton-abbey-black-people-history "The black ghosts haunting Downton Abbey"], The Guardian, 14 November 2012.
13. ^Hazelann Williams, "Resurrecting The Past", The Voice, 29 September 2012.
14. ^Derek Turner (2013): "Modernity in a medieval city", Quarterly Review, 17 January 2014.
15. ^Annie Ridout, "Queens of the Undead – Black history brought up to date", Hackney Citizen, 1 October 2012.
16. ^Sandra Gibson (2008): "Hawkins & Co" (review) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511191517/http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/misc/reviews/hawkins_co.php |date=2008-05-11 }}, Nerve.
17. ^Untold London {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514005635/http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/news/ART45354.html |date=2008-05-14 }}
18. ^"Seeing Through Display: Motion and Material", Tate Britain: Exhibition, 14 July – 6 August 2009.

Further reading

  • Anjos, M., & A. Farias, 2010, 29th Bienal Documentation, São Paulo: Fundação de Bienal São Paulo, {{ISBN|978-85-85298-37-1}}
  • Anjos, M., & A. Farias, 2010, 29th Bienal Catalogue, São Paulo: Fundação de Bienal São Paulo, {{ISBN|978-85-85298-33-3}}
  • Barbrook, R., 2014. Class Wargames: Ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism, Minor Compositions; distributed by Autonomedia (New York), {{ISBN|978-1-57027-293-6}}
  • Benci, J., 2012, Fine Arts 2011-2012, British School at Rome (Rome), {{ISBN|978-0-904152-64-7}}
  • Dibosa, D., et al. 2012, Kimathi Donkor: Queens of the Undead Iniva (London), {{ISBN|978-1-899846-54-2}}
  • Chambers, E., 2014, Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present, I.B.Tauris (London and New York), {{ISBN|978-1-7807-6271-5}}
  • Kaisary, P., 2014, The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination, London and Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, {{ISBN|978-0-8139-3546-1}}
  • Miranda, M., & A. Páscoa, 2014, Offline: Between Transits and Journeys, Lisbon: XEREM Associação Cultural, {{ISBN|978-989-97183-1-9}}
  • Miller, M., 2013, Seeing Through, London: Tate Young People's Programmes

External links

  • Kimathi Donkor's official website
  • Kimathi Donkor's page at Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • Kimathi Donkor's page at Omenka Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria.
  • Kimathi Donkor's page at Ed Cross Fine Art, London, UK.
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