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Cohen, Steven  

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16 February 2015
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

South African, 20th–21st century, male.

Active in France.

Born 11 August 1962, in Johannesburg.

Printmaker, choreographer, performance artist. Identity politics.

Living Art.

Steven Cohen was the first South African artist under apartheid to create confrontational performance art engaging with sexual and cultural identity. He began his career in the 1980s, while conscripted into the South African army, when he went absent without leave and learnt how to screenprint at Cape Town’s Ruth Prowse School of Art....

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Drissi, Moulay Ahmed  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Moroccan, 20th century, male.

Born 1924, near Marrakech.

Painter. Figures.

Symbolism.

The absence of figurative representation in much traditional Islamic art is less the result of a religious ban than a symptom of the religion's symbolic relationship with the world. Drissi's painting is characterised by this ambiguity: in painting figures in given situations, he nevertheless strips them of their bodily appearance, creating strictly hieratic shapes cloaked either in a burnous or a djellaba, featureless faces, and oppressive, empty surrounds where the living are never far from the grave....

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El Bekri, Abdelmajid  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Tunisian, 20th century, male.

Born 8 November 1942, in Gabes.

Painter, draughtsman.

Abdelmajid El Bekri studied art in a number of different countries, including France, Holland, Italy and Russia.

He remained faithful to the Islamic artistic tradition of organic architectural decoration but enriched it with his own imagination. His is an extremely refined art form, and combines tradition with invention and modernity....

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Lipshitz, Lippy  

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28 May 2015
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

South African, 20th century, male.

Born 8 May 1903, in Plungian, Lithuania; died 25 October 1980, in Kiryat Tivon, Israel.

Sculptor in diverse materials, draughtsman, printmaker.

In 1908, Isreal-Isaac Lipshitz emigrated to South Africa where he remained, apart from trips abroad, until his retirement to Israel in ...

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Muafangejo, John Ndevasia  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Namibian, 20th century, male.

Born 1943, in Etunda io Nghadi, Angola; died 27 November 1987.

Engraver, painter. Religious subjects. Designs for tapestries.

John Ndevasia Muafangejo was born in Ovamboland in southern Angola in a village of the Kwanjama region which straddles the Namibian border. When his father died in ...

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Zaouche, Foued  

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31 October 2011
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Benezit Dictionary of Artists

Tunisian, 20th century, male.

Active in France since 1974.

Born 1944.

Painter.

Foued Zaouche went to Paris to study painting in 1976. Inspired by religion and the bizarre in a style that sometimes verges on science fiction, he presents disturbing visions on neutral backgrounds, towns with empty buildings and deserted landscapes with no vegetation, such as ...