South African Artist

Forbes: Dior’s Medallion Chair Exhibit Opens In Miami With A Star Studded Reception

The House of Dior’s Medallion Chair Exhibition has landed in the US at the new arts center during Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach at Superblue last night. Earlier this year the exhibition opened at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, where seventeen artists were invited to reinterpret the iconic medallion chair with their own chair. All Medallion chairs are on display from today until December 5th at Superblue.

VIDEO: Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room Virtual Opening | Met Exhibitions

“Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room,” like any of The Met’s period rooms, is a fabrication of a domestic space that assembles furnishings and objects to create a fiction of authenticity. Rather than affirm a fixed moment in time, however, this structure reimagines the immersive experience of the period room by embracing the African diasporic belief that the past, present, and future are interconnected.

Elle Decor: The Met’s New Afrofuturist Room Asks ‘What if?’

On Friday the museum will open its first foray into interiors of the African diaspora with the installation Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. Located significantly at the crossroads between the American wing and the 19th-century Britain and pre-19th-century Europe galleries, the period room considers a number of the varying influences on American and African American culture, creating a bridge between the past and the future.

Surface Mag: The Met Opens an Afrofuturist Period Room, and Other News

Museum period rooms often fail to look beyond the purview of the rich, white people of yesteryear, making them seem staid and unadventurous. A new period room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art created through the lens of Afrofuturism, however, is seeking to redefine what the medium can accomplish. Called “Before Yesterday We Could Fly,” the Afrofuturist period room peeks inside the 19th-century house of a matriarch from Seneca Village, a middle-class Black neighborhood razed by New York City to create Central Park.

CSA: South African Artist Atang Tshikare X Christian Dior

After years of being perceived by the rest of the Western world as a curiosity (alternatively a creative treasure trove to be plundered), African designers and Artists are finally being recognized for their talent. Recently Christian Dior came calling to South African Artist Atang Tshikare to apply his genius to their ‘Medallion Chair’. The Wire spoke to Atang about his latest collab.