George Lilanga: Catalogue raisonné of etchings Volume I (new publication)

The HMC - Hamburg Mawingu Collection with the first volume of a catalogue raisonné of George Lilanga's etchings has now published another important publication on the life's work of the East African artist George Lilanga, who died in 2005.

The Makonde artist George Lilanga (1934 - 2005), born in northern Mozambique, is one of the most important representatives of contemporary visual art in East Africa. However, Lilanga's etching work has received far too little international attention and its extent is only known to a few experts. This is all the more surprising because George Lilanga has been one of the very few African artists who have produced etchings since the 1970s. There has not yet been a catalogue raisonné. This gap is now being closed.

This catalogue provides an overview of the extraordinary etching work of George Lilanga, who has also inspired numerous other artists with it and with the "Shetani Art" he created.

With the newly published catalogue raisonné, the HMC - Hamburg Mawingu Collection presents a third important publication on George Lilanga's life's work, in addition to the catalogue raisonné of the complete works from 2005 and the documentation of the eight doors of the defunct art house Nyumba ya Sanaa in Dar es Salaam from 2021. The George Lilanga Collection, as part of the HMC, not only houses prints of the etchings, but also archives a large number of the original printing plates.

The catalogue raisonné of the etchings is therefore a "must" for every Lilanga collector and serious researcher and expert of contemporary Makonde art.

Year of publication: 2024
Publisher: HMC - Hamburg Mawingu Collection
21x27.5cm
24 colour pages
Bilingual German / English
Hardcover
Price: 29.80 Euro plus shipping costs
Softcover
Price: 24.80 Euro plus shipping costs

Each limited edition

Worldwide shipping

More information on internet:
George Lilanga News
http://georgelilanga.blogspot.com/2024/03/neu-werkverzeichnis-der-radierungen.html

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The Hamburg Mawingu Collection (HMC) is one of the leading international collections of modern East African Makonde carving art. In addition to numerous masterpieces by well-known Makonde wood sculptors (e.g. Dastani, Karinto, Anangangola, Kashimiri, Chanuo and many others), the HMC: George Lilanga Collection represents a significant part of the collection. Works from all creative periods of this internationally renowned artist are represented, e.g. paintings, drawings, etchings, metal works, sculptures and other works. In 2005, immediately after George Lilanga's death, the Hamburg Mawingu Collection presented a catalogue raisonné, which provides a unique, systematically consistent and thematically structured overall overview of Lilanga's complex life's work. The HMC publications are supplemented by the documentation of the Lilanga doors for the lost art house in Dar es Salaam / Tanzania and now the first volume of a catalogue raisonné of the etchings.

The HMC has its own research department and in addition to the actual collecting activities, we carry out our own scientific studies, initiate research projects and support other art and culture-related projects in Africa and worldwide.

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