With the success of their current exhibition featuring contemporary art from Africa and South America, The Saatchi Gallery has confirmed that they will be returning with a similar construct for their 2015 exhibition, Pangaea 2. Bringing together some of the most impressive and interesting new art from the two former sister continents, it acts as an artistically focused inspection of the evolution of expression in the two separated and now increasingly linked land masses.
The exhibition is scheduled to open at the Belgravia gallery on the 4th March 2015 and will run through until the 6th December later next year. As ever with the brilliant Saatchi Gallery, the exhibition will be completely free for all visitors and if the works on display in its predecessor are anything to go by it’ll be another must-visit installation from them.
For anyone not up on their tectonic movement Pangaea is the name for a Paleozoic supercontinent that consisted of modern day North America, Eurasia, Antarctica, India, Australia, Africa and South America. In the context of the exhibition, it’s a reference to the natural connection, separation and historical relevance of South American and African art and its ongoing influence to modern works.
Bringing together a significant collection of new art from the two continents, it’ll be another whole gallery takeover for the 9 month long Pangaea II stint throughout the majority of the latter two thirds of 2015. The exhibition will feature the work of 15 very different artists, including Aboudia, Eduardo Berliner, Jean-François Boclé, Armand Boua, Pia Camil, Alida Cervantes, Alexandre da Cunha, Ayan Farah, Federico Herrero, Diego Mendoza Imbachi, Jorge Mayet, Boris Nzebo, Alejandro Ospina, Ephrem Solomon and Mikhael Subotzky.
From what we’ve seen of the preview, highlights on the South American side of the continental divide are going to include Brazilian artist Jean-François Boclé’s Everything Must Go (2014), which is made up of 97,000 blue plastic bags, fellow Brazilian Eduardo Berliner’s Woman With Dog (2009) oil painting with its anthropomorphic trick of the eye, and Cuban artist Jorge Mayet’s Entre Dos Aguas (2008), which looks at the importance of water to nature.
There will also be the entrancing Untitled (2013) series by Ivory Coast artist Armand Boua, the undecipherable Haiz (2014) by Ayan Farah of the United Arab Emirates and the dark city scene of Aboudia’s Untitled (Black painting) (2011).
If you can’t wait for next year’s exhibition, the good news is that the original Pangaea is still in residence at the Saatchi Gallery and will be until the 2nd November 2014, so there’s still plenty of time to see it.
