Bart Luirink
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Admire Kamudzengerere

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Surreal paintings, race, migration and Nelson Mandela’s spirit came together at the ZAM Newsroom on 6 October 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The event, held in partnership with Gallery 23, featured Zimbabwean artist Admire Kamudzengerere and his work in which race, cultural psychology, migration and gateways between the industrialized and developing world are major themes.

The location of the gallery, within a stone’s throw of the Amsterdam harbour and the old colonial vessel displayed by the adjacent Dutch Shipping Museum, was strangely in tune with a major canvas by Kamudzengerere that displays current visa and passport numbers as the new ‘vehicles’ between continents and combines it with traces of soil from places transgressed.

At the second ZAM Newsroom, ZAM editor Bart Luirink also read an essay that described the tragic medical discourse around the health of the then ailing Nelson Mandela. Please find the essay here.