Malick Sidibé Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venezia
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Malick Sidibé Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
The Board of La Biennale di Venezia, presided over by Davide Croff, has accepted the proposal by Director Robert Storr to award the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 52nd International Art Exhibition (10th June – 21st November) to the artist Malick Sidibé (Soloba, Mali, 1936).
The Golden Lion will be awarded in Venice on Sunday, June 10th, first day of the Exhibition, during a brief ceremony at the Giardini della Biennale which will follow the official opening at 10.30 a.m.
Statement and recommendation by the Director of the 52nd International Art Exhibition, Robert Storr
Photography has been perhaps the most widely and inventively used artistic medium in Africa in the post- colonial era, as a spate of recent exhibitions has clearly shown. As they have also demonstrated beyond any shadow of a doubt, no African artist has done more to enhance photography’s stature in the region, contribute to its history, enrich its image archive or increase our awareness of the textures and transformations of African culture in the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first than Malick Sidibé.
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The Venice Biennale in 2007
52nd International Art Exhibition, June 10 - November 21
5th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, June 14 - 30
39th International Theatre Festival, July 18 - 29
64th Venice International Film Festival, August 29 - September 8
51st International Festival of Contemporary Music, October 4 - 13
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July::Congratulations to the winner
Malick Sidibé is a great lensman.
I love he’s work.