El Hadji Sy
Painting, Performance, Politics
Distributed for Diaphanes
408 pages
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300 color plates, 100 halftones
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8 1/2 x 11
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© 2015
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Clémentine Deliss
Yvette Mutumba
Introduction
El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics
Clémentine Deliss
The artwork becomes a socialized object, enhanced and embellished by the community
El Hadji Sy in conversation with Julia Gross
Dancing in and out of painting
Philippe Pirotte
El Hadji Sy and the quest for a post-négritude aesthetics
Mamadou Diouf
Brothers in arms: Laboratoire AGIT’ART and Tenq in the 1990s
Clémentine Deliss
Between Frankfurt und Dakar: The passion of two pioneers
Yvette Mutumba
El Hadji Sy in conversation with Hans Beting
Cardiology of a life’s work
Manon Schwich
Image Index
El Hadji Sy: Biography
Contributors’ biographies
Selected reading
Imprint
Clémentine Deliss
Yvette Mutumba
Introduction
El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics
Clémentine Deliss
The artwork becomes a socialized object, enhanced and embellished by the community
El Hadji Sy in conversation with Julia Gross
Dancing in and out of painting
Philippe Pirotte
El Hadji Sy and the quest for a post-négritude aesthetics
Mamadou Diouf
Brothers in arms: Laboratoire AGIT’ART and Tenq in the 1990s
Clémentine Deliss
Between Frankfurt und Dakar: The passion of two pioneers
Yvette Mutumba
El Hadji Sy in conversation with Hans Beting
Cardiology of a life’s work
Manon Schwich
Image Index
El Hadji Sy: Biography
Contributors’ biographies
Selected reading
Imprint
Review Quotes
Deutsche Welle
Praise for the exhibition
"El Hadji Sy brought contemporary African art to Europe long before it became trendy. An exhibition in Germany sheds light on artistic self-determination in postcolonial Africa."
"El Hadji Sy brought contemporary African art to Europe long before it became trendy. An exhibition in Germany sheds light on artistic self-determination in postcolonial Africa."
Africanah
Praise for the exhibition
"El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics is the first retrospective exhibition of the painter and curator El Hadji Sy, whose interdisciplinary practice represents a conceptual and aesthetic nerve within post-Independence art in Africa."
"El Hadji Sy: Painting, Performance, Politics is the first retrospective exhibition of the painter and curator El Hadji Sy, whose interdisciplinary practice represents a conceptual and aesthetic nerve within post-Independence art in Africa."
Contemporary And
"As a founder of the notorious collective Laboratoire AGIT'art, and a curator of numerous artist-led workshops and studio spaces in Dakar, El Hadji Sy’s interdisciplinary practice represents a ground-breaking position within the context of post-Independence Africa."
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