Congo as Fiction: Art Worlds Between Past & Present / Oberhofer / 2020 / Museum Rietberg Zurich

Stunning and fascinating book - published alongside the exhibition at Museum Rieteberg Zurich - drawing on the objects, photographs and documents of German art ethnologist, Hans Himmelheber, who traveled the Congo in 1938/9. Contemporary Congolese artists engage and respond to the create a synthesis of the past and present, showing how artists like Sammy Baloji and Sinzo Aanza have been exploring the effects of colonialism and globalised trade in their work for many years.

First edition. Hardcover. Published by Scheidegger Und Albert Spiess A&G Verlag in 2020.

328 pages. 26cm x 24cm. Densely illustrated in colour and black-and-white.

Condition: New and sealed.