Publication Details
Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi
Exhibition Guide
Paperback
16.5 x 11.5 cm
Arabic and English
90 pages, 31 visuals
Published by Sharjah Art Foundation, 2018
Overview
This exhibition booklet is a record of Sharjah Art Foundation’s retrospective exhibition of the work of Guyana-born British artist Frank Bowling, co-curated by Hoor Al Qasimi with Okwui Enwezor and Anna Schneider at Haus der Kunst, Munich. The exhibition presents an overview of major developments in Bowling’s practice, exploring the artist’s engagement with history, migration, memory and representation across a six-decade career. Incorporating a number of works never or rarely shown before, the exhibition includes a selection of the artist’s map paintings as well as material from the Frank Bowling archive and films featuring interviews with the artist.
Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi
Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi [Map of the World] presents an overview of major developments in Bowling’s practice, exploring the artist’s engagement with history, migration, memory and representation across a six-decade career.
Bowling, Frank
For over five decades, Frank Bowling has incorporated both autobiography and postcolonial geopolitics into his work.
Al Qasimi, Hoor
Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, established the Foundation in 2009 as a catalyst and advocate for the arts in Sharjah, in the region and around the world.
Enwezor, Okwui
Okwui Enwezor was a curator, critic and art historian.