KWASIAFRIKANI

In 2009 we organized an exhibition at the Traco studio in Weesp with 14 other artists who have a connection with Africa. KWASIAFRIKANI is a nomadic art event, that has evolved when Wim Vonk met Cas Rooseboom and Klaas de Jonge. It is based in their affinity with Afrikan art and art history.

KWASIAFRIKANI is a remix of African and European art, a fusion of the work of Wim Vonk (multimedia artist) and the collection of African art of Klaas de Jonge (anthropologist). The African art is used in between all the other found objects as forms. Placed outof their context in a big empty factory they loose their meaning. That does not mean they loose power: the forms are spectaculous and in combination with the leftovers of our daily life an exciting opposion shows up. Very interesting…. But as a European artist doing this without the knowledge of their background…a wrong statement is easily made. And the other way around politically correctness won’t help eather.

With other artists who work with the theme from completely different points of view, artistically and from diffrent origin create a new language: KWASIAFRIKANI. Not real African, not real European art. Prejudice about original African art as well as contemporary European art make it impossible to even think of using the two of them as freely as painter uses his brush.