Video and performance Bonanza to stage at ASNI
By Alemayehu Seife-Selassie
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A video installation exhibition is going
to be staged at the ASNI art gallery tomorrow Saturday March 29th.
The installation art is one of the few exhibitions of its kind
and features international artistes as well as local talents.
“I have had one exhibition last year at the back of St.
George beer factory hall and I have worked in collaboration with
the ASNI gallery and BGI Ethiopia”, one of the organizers
for the exhibition Lulu Cherinet told SSI.
Also explaining how the coming show is going to be different from
the previous, Lulu said, “It is different every time. You
have different artistes talking about different shows”.
The Addis Ababa based Stockholm organization ‘Selam’
–that works with music and culture is the sponsor of the
show this Saturday.
In order to make this mission a reality Lulu has invited the gifted
artists from their home country Sweden. The video installation
work by the artists is going to be staged at the first floor of
the ASNI old-house-converted gallery. And there will be a performance
by the artists out side. One of the artists from Sweden Sara Lundel
will sing for one hour and an installation by Anmika Larssol another
by Juan Pedro Fabra, Michele Masucci and Tobias Bermstrup will
follow from her with the installation. The group has had a one
day art talk with artistes from the Addis Ababa Fine Arts University
and it has also had a four day workshop embracing some 30 Ethiopian
artists. And on Saturday’s exhibition following the international
artists’ performance and presentation an exhibition featuring
the workshop’s results will also be exhibited.
Explaining how this form of art is going to be exceptional the
organizer said, “Many times we divide the Medias, some are
photographer some are artists working with video; but it is the
critical images that matters”. The artist also stated that
it is high time that Ethiopia has such an art exhibited because
the time is booming with filmmakers.
Starting out as a painter at the Addis Ababa Fine Arts the artist
that has invited the guests -Lulu Cherinet has studied here but
she has also studied art in Stockholm art Academy. Working with
video, photography and painting, this artist switches media between
the static and changing images. As she endeavors to make the art
popular here, art fans in Addis can have a different form of entertainment•
March 28, 2008
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