El premio ArtBox Digital 2019 destinado a artistas de la capital colombiana, ha sido otorgado a Ana Maria Baquero por su proyecto “El rebusque”.
Led by a group of artists and arts professionals, Artepoli is an interesting editorial initiative that informs about international cultural news. Faithful to its mission of “Being a spokesperson for artists’ creative work and a window to new trends”, Artepoli…
This December the South African artist Nathan Gates – winner Africa ArtBox 2017 – shared with the public Dakar his project developed during his artistic residency in Plataforma Bogota the months of April and May. With two conferences that took…
After two months of work, the South African artist Nathan Gates, winner of the Africa ArtBox competition, has completed his creative residency in the Colombian capital, at the headquarters of Plataforma Bogotá.
The South African artist was met by Plataforma Bogota team as he walked for the first time on Colombian land today, Monday April 16th, to materialize the award won in 2017 edition’s of ArtBox African digital art.
Artistic creation from Latin America tends to be seen by those in the first world as peripheral, imitative, folkloric, and contaminated with the culture of resentment that Harold Bloom speaks about so much. It is forgotten, for example, that an important period in Picasso’s oeuvre involved superficially copying African masks.
A brief critical analysis of appropriation and its digital resources. Appropriation has remained bound to art history through big names such as Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, or Duchamp, who exemplify the consistent use of this technique/movement within the art world….
May you tell us which are your artistic’s origins? I was lucky to be born in a family with many art passionate, singers, musicians, dancers, comedians, graphic artists… Growing up in that artistic environment, I was very early driven to…
Fakeba is a Senegalese multidisciplinary artist musically focussed on electropop and electronic culture. She also wrote music and lyrics for theater and television purposes. She plays bass guitar since childhood and piano since she is an adolescent. From 15 years…
Patron of this first digital art competition organized at the African continent level by TRIAS CULTURE, with the Embassy of Spain in Dakar support, the young Senegalese singer meets our false lion in order to share the beautiful journey of…
For this first edition, the organizers of Africa ArtBox said they were looking for an image evoking the African continent as a whole and the digital media in the area of artistic production, stressing the importance of the artist’s professional development in a world that becomes more and more global. At the very beginning of the image creative process, I separated those two concepts to analyze and visualize them in an independent way, aiming to find new ideas.
