Wall Street Journal Article. A headline of the same name was published later in the
Frieze Magazine. In
The Guardian, he was called “Giant of the Art World” while
The New York Times coined Enwezor “the Curator Who Remapped the Artworld”, and the “Curator Who Shaped a Global View of Contemporary Art”. The list goes on.
Suffice it to say, Okwui Enwezor, a poet, art critic, art historian and curator, was a man of astonishing and global influence an art world giant, whose legacy has not, and probably will not, be forgotten for many years to come.
Born on 23 October 1963 in Calabar, a port city in the South of Nigeria, Enwezor was part of an affluent Igbo family. The reality of the Biafran war (1967-70) meant that much of his childhood was spent moving around to avoid conflict; the family eventually settled in the eastern Nigerian city of Enugu.
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When is a piece of work disposable? Philotheus Nisch on tending to the “outtakes, leftovers and discarded variations”
The Germany-based photographer gives us the details behind his latest offering, in collaboration with designer David Rindlisbacher and Maximilian Mauracher from Pool Publishing.
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What makes a piece of work disposable? Is it because of a mistake, a change in direction, or simply because you’ve gone off it? In Philotheus Nisch’s latest photography book
B-Sides, he’s compiled an array of “outtakes, leftovers and discarded variations of motifs,” he tells us. “But all are visual B-Sides, because of different reasons they didn’t end up in my final selection.”