Hollandaise - a Journey into an Iconic Fabric

The exhibition Hollandaise: a journey into an iconic fabric took place at SMBA.[1] from 30 November 2012 to 6 January 2013 in the context of Project 1975 of Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The exhibition travelled on to Raw Material Company,[2] Dakar (Senegal), where it was on view from 10 April – 1 June 2013.

The curator for this exhibition was Koyo Kouoh.[3] Participating artists in this exhibition were Godfried Donkor, Abdoulaye Konaté, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Willem de Rooij, Billie Zangewa.[2]

For this exhibition Kouoh commissioned five artists, all working in the medium of textile, in Europe and Africa to make new works on the subject of “Hollandaise” or “Dutch wax”,[Notes 1] the colourful wax print fabrics that are most often regarded as typically African.[2][3]

This exhibition was the last one held in the context of Project 1975. In the context of this exhibition a catalogue, edited by Kouoh, and an SMBA Newsletter were published.

Notes

  1. ↑ In Francophone African countries, this material is known as Hollandaise, a reference to its origin in Holland.

References

  1. ↑ SMBA, The Netherlands.
  2. 1 2 3 "Hollandaise". Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  3. 1 2 Kouoh, Koyo (2012). "A journey into an iconoc fabric". SMBA Newsletter. 130.

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