Titled You Go To My Head after Billie Holiday’s standard, this first group show at Galerie Templon Brussels is conceived as a “visual poem” on African Inheritance.
Curator Rita Rovelli Caltagirone, a devoted art collector and art education patron, has gathered over twenty international artists in a carefully staged display to explore the influence of African roots in contemporary art.
With
Olu Amoda, Omar Ba, Sanford Biggers, Mark Bradford, Nick Cave, Phoebe Collings-James, Melvin Edwards, Theaster Gates, David Hammons, Romuald Hazoumé, Rashid Johnson, Bertand Lavier, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Tony Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Liza Lou, Carrie Mae Weems, Tameka Norris, Ugo Rondinone, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
A catalogue accompanies the show.