Werkobjekt
Cinchona
Urheberschaft: Roger Meintjes
Installation
Installation at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art
South-African artist Meintjes lives temporarily in Europe in order to realize a number of projects connected with the mutual past of Europe and Africa. Plates and explanatory texts illustrate the subject "Imperial Plants". Mainly by archive photographs it focuses on the history of the colonial trading commodity Cinchona, a tree from which quinine is won. Also shown are photographs of the Van Riebeeck-hedge, which was plated in Capetown in 1660.
(Text: Manifesta)
- Manifesta 1. European Biennial of Contemporary Art, 09.06.1996 – 19.08.1996, Foundation European Art Manifestation, International Foundation Manifesta, Natural History Museum, Nederland, Amsterdam, Nederland, Rotterdam, Martin Beck, Mila Bredhikina, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Mat Collishaw, Maria Eichhorn, Róza El-Hassan, Olafur Eliasson, Entertainment & Co., Ayse Erkmen, Vadim Fiškin, Bernhard Fuchs, Douglas Gordon, Tamara Grcic, Joseph Grigely, Tommi Grönlund, Marie Ange Guilleminot, Dimitrij Gutov, Jitka Hanzlová, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Christine Hill, Huang Yongping, Fabrice Hybert, IRWIN, Alexey N. Isaev, Siraj Izhar, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Robert Jankuloski, Piotr Jaros, Koo Jeong-A, Ivana Keser, Soo-Ja Kim, Suchan Kinoshita, Renée Kool, Pavel Kopriva, Oleg Kulik, Yuri Leiderman, Rogelio López Cuenca, Tracey Mackenna, Eva Marisaldi, Jenny Marketou, Rosa Martínez (Kurator/in), Roger Meintjes, Viktor Misiano (Kurator/in), Esko Männikkö, Regina Möller, NEsTWORK, Petteri Nisunen, Katalin Néray (Kurator/in), Maurice O'Connell, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Kurator/in), Roman Ondák, Valeri Podoroga, Tadej Pogacar, Mathias Poledna, Liza May Post, Luca Quartana, Tobias Rehberger, Andrew Renton (Kurator/in), Pipilotti Rist, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Arsen Savadov, Pit Schulz, Georgij Senchenko, Nedko Solakov, János Sugár, Sam Taylor-Wood, Kathy Temin, Hale Tenger, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jaan Toomik, Didier Trenet, Mette Tronvoll, Uri Tzaig, Paco Vacas, Eulalia Valldosera, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Lydia Venieri, Susann Walder, Catherine Yass, subREAL
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