Georges Adéagbo
Beninese sculptor · Benin · On the map · Artists · Born 1942 · age 84
Georges Adéagbo is an internationally recognized conceptual artist. Since the early 1970s he has developed a distinctive practice of assemblage, combining found objects, handwritten texts, and artworks commissioned from Beninese artisans.
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Georges Adéagbo, photographed at MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2009. Photo courtesy of MAK press photographer.
Installation detail from "La révolution et les révolutions" (2016) by Georges Adéagbo, exhibited at the 11th Shanghai Biennial. Mixed media assemblage. Photo by Alessandro Wang.
The explorer and the explorers facing the history of exploration - The World Theater (2002), installation detail by Georges Adéagbo. Contribution to Documenta 11, Kassel. Now in the collection of Museum Ludwig, Cologne.About this person
His installations, which he describes as a “Tribunal of Things,” question canonized narratives from Western perspectives and deconstruct notions of center and periphery. They consistently challenge simplistic distinctions between popular and elite culture, the superior and the inferior, the banal and the profound, and the sacred and the secular.
