Sunday, 29 September 2019

Contemporary art Africa 2

Regional Background

15 countries on the continent are involved in war or are in post-war conflict and tension.Angola, Zimbabwe in the South, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda in the East, Burundi, DR Congo, and Rwanda in Central, and Algeria in the North.  

https://zeitzmocaa.museum/



Fred Mutebi is a woodcut printmaker who lives and practices in Uganda. In spite of opportunities overseas, Fred has chosen to remain in his mother country in order to promote the art of printmaking – which had fallen out of use for many years. Fred uses printmaking to communicate complex societal and environmental issues, and to act as a vehicle for positive change in Uganda through his own work and through his organisation ‘Let Art Talk’.
http://www.artinaction.org.uk/artists/fred-mutebi/
https://fredmutebi.org/


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