Visit to L’ABÉCÉDAIRE de Georges Adéagbo at BARBARA WIEN gallery

Exhibition Dates: February 8 – August 15, 2020 (Summer break August 2–10)
Location: BARBARA WIEN gallery & art bookshop
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 1 – 6 PM; Saturday, noon – 6 pm
Address: Schöneberger Ufer 65 (3rd floor), 10785 Berlin

“L’Abécédaire de Georges Adéagbo: la civilisation parlant et faisant voir la culture..! is the second solo exhibition by Georges Adéagbo at Galerie Barbara Wien. In this project, comprising of several assemblages and installations, Adéagbo develops a personal encyclopaedia of things and impressions he has collected throughout his research in Berlin and Benin, and sets them centre stage with his written comments. Adéagbo’s installations are both a cross-section of our time with its diverging geopolitical interests, as well as an evidence of the mediating function of cultures, which Adéagbo makes visible through his cultural transfer. In Benin, he has translated what he found in Berlin into images and reliefs; from there, he brings sculptures and masks which enter into conversation with Western artefacts. At the same time, as the title suggests, the new assemblage is a reflection on the artist’s own practice of collecting and questioning.

Adéagbo often compares his installations to a courtroom, in which many witnesses testify to the facts of a case, and the observer ultimately makes their own judgement or simply leaves what at first seem to be contradictory ones standing. Above all, Adéagbo sees writing systems as building blocks of cultures, almost as a kind of DNA, whose modification can have fatal consequences.” (Text excerpt from the press release by courtesy of BARBARA WIEN gallery & Stephan Köhler)

More information on the BARBARA WIEN gallery & art bookshop Website.