The Catinca Tabacaru Gallery update from the Grand Palais Art Basel. The Gallerists are staying home today and o ine due to ~peacful demonstrations~in the Paris Streets.
Interesting due to the show title ~No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People~ . Freedom is the topic of the hour.
Have No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People ENCORE | Grand Palais (closed) INtresti g due to the show of ~No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People~
Since we're not in the Grand Palais today, meet us online. We're drinking coffee and eating croissants in Paris after a day of peaceful protests so please do reach out to meet and discuss.
We brought to Art Basel a capsule ofHave No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People, a research-based project tracing the largely overlooked relationship between Romania and Zimbabwe beginning with Zimbabwe’s struggle for independence and drawing afil rougethrough to today.
We were showing 1970s Zimbabwean modernist sculptures, including works by Thomas Mukarobgwa and Joseph Ndandarika, whose work will appear in MoMA’s major 2027 exhibition, alongside evocative marble-powder sculptures by 26-year-old Romanian artist Ana Pascu, and powerful stone and found material sculptures by 35-year-old Terrence Musekiwa. Pre-revolution Romanian conceptual photography by Decebal Scriba and Ion Grigorescu entered into dialogue with the 2017 performance-based work of Admire Kamudzengerere and Rachel Monosov, which zigzags between reality and fiction. A 2015 work on paper in oil-based printing ink and oil bar by Portia Zvavahera caused quite a stir, hanging beside a 1994 painting by Mukarobgwa, one of the first-generation Zimbabwean artists who inspired her. And paintings by 25-year-old Andrei Nițu sold out while they were still wet.
Read alongside one another, these two histories open questions around liberation movements, collective memory, cultural identity and the promises—and failures—of freedom, while complicating some of the Western narratives through which Romanian and Zimbabwean art histories have been understood.
A new publication byDISTANZaccompanies the project, bringing together archival documents, first-hand accounts, commissioned essays and the work of 67 artists. The book expands the research beyond the exhibition, bringing a largely overlooked chapter of twentieth-century history into a broader international and art-historical conversation. Please reach out if you'd like to order the book.
ARTISTS
Thomas Mukarobgwa (b. 1924 – d. 1999) Zephania Tshuma (b. 1932 – d. 2000) Fanizani Akuda (b. 1932 – d. 2011) Nicholas Mukomberanwa (b. 1940 – d. 2002) Sylvester Mubayi (b. 1942 – d. 2022) Decebal Scriba (b. 1944) Ion Grigorescu (b. 1945) Amon Mwareka (b. 1950 – d. 1992) Ciprian Mureșan (b. 1977) Admire Kamudzengerere (b. 1981) Portia Zvavahera (b. 1985) Chiedza Pasipanodya (b. 1987) Rachel Monosov (b. 1987) Terrence Musekiwa (b. 1990) Nona Inescu (b. 1991) Kresiah Mukwazhi (b. 1992) Andrei Nițu (b. 2000) Ana Pascu (b. 2000)
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