AFRICAN ART: THE ARAK COLLECTION: NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH
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AFRICAN ART: THE ARAK COLLECTION: NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH
On 8 May at the Pratt Institute in New York, ARAK held a launch and talk for African Art: The ARAK Collection, the definitive and debut publication of the Qatar-based ARAK Collection, founded by AbdulRahman AlKhulaifi and home to over 4000 works by artists from Sub-Saharan Africa. The event formed part of the VIP Preview of 1:54 New York.
The talk was between one of the book’s contributors, Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti, and Professor May Joseph from the Pratt Institute.
Featuring artworks from more than 100 artists in the collection African Art: The ARAK Collection serves as an essential framing text for the ARAK Collection and provides a much-needed perspective on contemporary art from the continent. Through the ARAK Collection, one is able to gain a dynamic, collective vision of Africa.
Arranged according to the selectively identified themes of Abstraction, Portraiture, and Place, each with an accompanying contextual essay by art critic and cultural theorist Ashraf Jamal, the publication also features short, informative texts on each artist written by Jamal, curator and researcher Nneoma Angela Okorie, and art historian and writer Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti.
African Art: The ARAK Collection is available for purchase on SKIRA’s website.
All photos by Parker Calvert/CKA @photo_by_cka and @parkercalvert.
