AFRICOBRA: Nation Time is a Collateral Event of the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
AFRICOBRA: Nation Time will be presented as an official Collateral Event of Biennale Arte 2019 in Venice, Italy. Founded over 120 years ago, the Venice Bienniale is the oldest and most prestigious biennial in the world. The exhibition, on view from May 11 – November 24, 2019, will mark the first exhibition from South Florida to be represented on the important international platform.
AFRICOBRA: Nation Time at Biennale Arte 2019 is the first time the work of this vital, definitive, and historic Black Arts collective has been celebrated by global audiences on this scale. AFRICOBRA was founded on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 by a collective of young Black artists, whose interest in Transnational Black Aesthetics led them to create one of the most distinctive visual voices in 20th Century American art. The key characteristics to what we now consider the classic AFRICOBRA look—vibrant, “cool-ade” colors, bold text, shine and positive images of Black people —were essential to everyday life in the community from which this movement emerged. The five AFRICOBRA founders—Jeff Donaldson, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu and Gerald Williams—understood the potential power visual art has to communicate deep meaning on multiple layers. Their collective impact helped establish the visual voice of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s.
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