Querini Stampalia Museum

until 10 february 2008

Georges Adèagbo, who was born in 1942 in Cotonou (Benin) where he lives and works, is one of the most important artists of Western Africa. His presence at the International Biennale of Art in Venice in 1999 and at Documenta of Kassel in 2002 have decreed his recognition on an international level too.
The exhibition, arranged in the rooms of the Querini Stampalia Foundation, is curated by Chiara Bertola with Stephan Koehler and was inaugurated last Friday in the site of St. Maria Formosa; it will be open until 10th February.
Such exhibition is developed on two floors: on the second one the interaction with the existent works of art of the museum, according to the project Keeping the future – with the aim of correlating ancient and contemporary art, and the site-specific walls on the third floor, of which the African artist has represented two great collages which continue on the floor and which are made of newspapers, brochures, figures put into cases realized by craftsmen.