As old as Arab calligraphy and as modern as the hip hop culture, both abstract and figurative, the works of the Franco-Tunisian artist celebrate the dual cultural identity of their creator, spreading messages of peace.
Repeated border crossings, from one side of the Atlantic to the other and on the American continent, are one of the privileged keys for interpreting the works of the Italo-Brazilian artist leading an exhibition in the museum in Paris dedicated to Pablo Picasso, another great “migrant” of art.
The Nigerian designer who returned to Lagos after training in Europe is one of the key interpreters of the local creative scene. A firm believer of the special practical intelligence of Africa, he strives to enhance all things local, from culture to production techniques.
A US artist, Lola Montes set up her atelier in Sicily a few years ago. We met her to listen to her life story on the other side of the Atlantic and to better understand her artistic ceramic and painted art.
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town”. In this short phrase, presumed to have been written in the late 19th century, Lev Tolstoj sums up a timeless and universal law: stories, all stories, whether personal or collective, begin with movement, a journey to somewhere or an arrival from somewhere. All in all, a border crossing.
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