Yacouba Konaté
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Yacouba Konaté (4 May 1953) is a curatorCurator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
, a writer, an art critic and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Cocody in Abidjan
Université de Cocody
The University of Cocody-Abidjan is a university in the Cocody section of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. It is one of the elite universities in the country and region...
, Ivory Coast.
He is a member of l’Académie des Arts, des Sciences et des Cultures d’Afrique et des Diasporas in Abidjan and he leads the Africa Office of the Jean Paul Blachère’s Foundation.
In 1998 he was Fulbright Professor at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, between 2004-2008 he taught at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The École des hautes études en sciences sociales is a leading French institution for research and higher education, a Grand Établissement. Its mission is research and research training in the social sciences, including the relationship these latter maintain with the natural and life sciences...
in France. In 2007 he taught at The University of Laval in Canada and in 2007 he was a Carter Fellow at the University of Florida
University of Florida
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, Gainesville.
In 2008 he became the president of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
He is expert on the cultural development of "European Union
European Union
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".
In 2000 he served as a Director of the National Institute of Arts and Culture and as a Director of the Cabinet of Ministers of Culture and Francophony. He is also head of the l'Institut national supérieur des Arts et de l'action culturelle of Abidjan. http://insaac.net/
He was one of the curators of individual exhibitions of 6th Dak'Art ( 7 May- 7 June 2004 ) with Ivo Mesquita and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a contemporary art curator, critic and historian of art. He is currently Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London...
. In 2006 he was the Artistic Director of the Dakar Biennale
Dakar Biennale
The Dakar Biennale, or Dak'Art - Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Dakar, Senegal...
. http://www.biennaledakar.org/
Exhibitions
- "Africa, Assume Art Position!" (12/11/2010-30/01/2011) Primo Marella Gallery http://www.primomarellagallery.com/, Milano, 2010. A group exhibition of artists included: Mounir Fatmi, Cameron Platter, Soly Cissé, Barthélémy ToguoBarthélémy ToguoBarthélémy Toguo, is a Cameroonian painter born in 1967. He lives in Paris and Bandjoun. He has also worked with photographs, sculpture, videos....
, Abdoulaye KonatéAbdoulaye KonatéAbdoulaye Konaté is a Malian artist. He was born in DIré and lives and works in Bamako. He is an artist of national fame who is now making a mark on the international scene. Konaté studied painting in Bamako and then Havana, Cuba.-Career:...
, Joel Andrianomearisoa, Peter EastmanPeter EastmanPeter Eastman is the lead developer of the free 3D graphics application Art of Illusion and creator of other software titles such as the interactive fiction game, ....
, Nandipha Mntambo, Moridja Kitenge Banza, Stuart Bird, Athi Patra Ruga, Vitshios Mwilambwe Bondo - "AfriqueEurope: Reves croises" ( 14/11- 10/12/2007), Ateliers des Tanneurs http://www.ateliersdestanneurs.be/index.cfm, Brussels, Belgium. A group exhibition of artists included: El AnatsuiEl AnatsuiEl Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria.Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana...
, Nu Barreto, El Berry Bickle and Luis Basto, Frédéric Bruly BouabréFrédéric Bruly BouabréFrédéric Bruly Bouabré, also known as Cheik Nadro , is an Ivorian artist.Bouabré was born in Zéprégüé, and was among the first Ivorians to be educated by the French colonial government. On March 11, 1948, he received a vision, which directly influenced much of his later work...
, Dilomprizulike, Mustapha Dime, El Loko, Tapfuma GutsaTapfuma GutsaTapfuma Gutsa is a Zimbabwean sculptor.A native of Harare, Gutsa was studied sculpture with Cornelius Manguma at the Driefontein Mission School, later becoming the first Zimbabwean recipient of a British Council award...
, Annie Haloba, Jak Katarikawe, Jems Robert Koko BiJems Robert Koko BiJems Robert Koko Bi is an Ivorian sculptor.He was born in 1966, in Sifra, Ivory Coast. He studied Spanish History between 1986-1988 in University of Abidjan. Between 1988-1995 he studied at Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l'Action Culturelle in Abidjan. In 1997 he won the DAAD...
, Abdoulaye KonateAbdoulaye KonatéAbdoulaye Konaté is a Malian artist. He was born in DIré and lives and works in Bamako. He is an artist of national fame who is now making a mark on the international scene. Konaté studied painting in Bamako and then Havana, Cuba.-Career:...
, Bill Kouelany, Siriki Ky, Ndary Lo, Toyin Loye, Churchill Madikida, Joel Mpah Dooh, Francis Mampuya, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Serigne Niang, Babacar Niang, Samuel Olou, Freddy Tsimba, and Guy Bertrand Wouété. - AbidjanAbidjanAbidjan is the economic and former official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while the current capital is Yamoussoukro. it was the largest city in the nation and the third-largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris, and Kinshasa but before Montreal...
International Exhibition of Visual Arts (May 2001) - Willie BesterWillie BesterWillie Bester is a South African artist known for his installations made of found objects.- Life : Born in the Montagu section of Cape Flats, at the age of ten Bester was required to move to a township with his family after the area of Montagu was designated under apartheid’s Group Areas Act as...
Exhibition in Brussels (April 2001) - 2001 Foire Internationale Africaine Des Arts Plastiques (FIAAP)
- “Afrique á jour” Exhibition in LilleLilleLille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...
(September 2000) - “South Meets West” Exhibition in AccraAccraAccra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...
and BerneBerneThe city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt of Switzerland, and, with a population of , the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population of 349,000. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000...
(December 1999 and June 2000)http://www.nawao.org/seiten/kunst/r_kunst_02_e.html - "Africa Africa: Vibrant New Art from a Dynamic Continent" (11/09-24/11/1998) curated by Rajae BenchemsiRajae BenchemsiRajae Benchemsi is a Moroccan writer. Benchemsi studied literature in Paris and wrote her thesis on Maurice Blanchot.She has published collections of poetry in Morocco and in France Fracture du désir, a collection of articles published by Actes Sud in 1998. In 2006, she wrote 'Houda et Taqi'...
, Rob Burnet, Yacouba Konaté, Toshio Shimizu, Jean-Hubert Martin, Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo
Publications
- Yacouba Konaté, Alpha Blondy: reggae et société en Afrique noire, CEDA, 1987. ISBN 2-86394-134-8
- Yacouba Konaté, Christian LattierChristian LattierChristian Lattier was an Ivorian sculptor born in Grand Lahou, Cote d'ivoire.- Biography :He began to study in Écoles des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Etienne and after a year he transferred to École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied architecture and sculpture. He was inspired by the African masks...
, Le sculpteur aux mains nues, Edition Sépia, 1993. ISBN 2-907888-23-4 - Yacouba Konaté, La Biennale de DakarDakar BiennaleThe Dakar Biennale, or Dak'Art - Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Dakar, Senegal...
. Pour une esthétique de la création africaine contemporaine. Tête à tête avec Adorno, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2009, ISBN 978-2-296-09645-5 - Yacouba Konatè, Cote D'Ivoire Contrastes, Hardcover, Publisher: Edipress; First edition 1991, Language: French, 128 pages, ASIN: B000BNKT6Q
- Yacouba Konatè, Sacrifices dans la ville. Le citadin chez le devin, Editions Douga, Abidjan, 1990.