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As in South Africa a large public payed attention to the exhibition in Namibia. The most important medias of the country reported about it. One of the highlights was another live television interview with Rui Assubuji by NBC in Good Morning Namibia (see press clippings). The exhibition is stored at the CDFF in Maputo at the moment.
Impressions...
After Mozambique and South Africa it will be shown in Namibia.
Next venue:
The National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek
From May 3 to May 28, 2005
Opening: May 3, 2005 at 18.30h
Get your invitation for the opening (pdf-download)
Iluminando Vidas in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa
The presentation of the show in South Africa was another milestone of the project: The public and medias payed again big attention to the exhibition at both venues. Iluminando Vidas was selected e.g. as the cover story of Mail & Guardian, Leisure magazine, or SABC AFRICA interviewed Ricardo Rangel and Rui Assubuji live (see press clippings).
Impressions...
The two next venues of Iluminando Vidas:
Get your invitation for both openings. (pdf-download)
The Bensusan Museum of Photography, MusueMAfricA, Johannesburg
From January 23 to February 20, 2005
Opening: January 23 at 11.30h
João Ferreira Gallery, Month of Photography, Cape Town
From March 2 to March 26, 2005
Opening: March 2 at 17.30h
Again a big success: The public and medias in Porto, Portugal, payed big attention to the opening. The exhibition was visited by a lot of people. All the important print medias (see press clippings) reported about Iluminando Vidas, TV and radio stations as well.
For the first and only time in Portugal!
Gallery of Culturgest, Porto
From October 9 to December 12, 2004
Opening: October 8, 2004
Announcement
get your invitation for the opening
Another nice success! For the second time in Mozambique, Iluminando Vidas was shown in Nampula in the Museu Nacional de Etnologia - MUSET with a big public interest. The Mozambican medias (see press clippings) payed again special attention to the opening which was accompanied by a traditional dance group and visited by the Swiss Ambassador Rudolf Baerfuss and by the Governor of Nampula Province, Abdul Razak. Three photographers, Ricardo Rangel, João Costa (Funcho) and Alfredo Mueche (the president of AMF), held workshops and conferences with local students and classes.
Impressions...
Museu Nacional de Etnologia - MUSET Nampula, Mozambique
from May 2 to June 1, 2004
Opening: May 2, 2004 from 15.30h
Mainly supported by: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC Get your invitation
© Ricardo Rangel, self portrait 1972
Ricardo Rangel was elected in Mozambique by the weekly SAVANA as cultural personality of the year 2003, also thanks ILUMINANDO VIDAS: "O cultural do SAVANA elegou por unanimidade o fotojournalista Ricardo Rangel como a figura cultural do presente ano. O decano dos fotógrafos moçambicanos anda nas lides fotográficas desde o longíncuo ano de 1952. (...) neste ano que foi publicado o histórico catálogo da fotografia moçambicana, ILUMINANDO VIDAS (...)." SAVANA, 02.01.2004.
© Ricardo Rangel From the series 'Our Nightly Bread', LM 1960's to 1970's
Until February 22, 2004 there was an individual exhibition of Ricardo Rangel with about 50 works to see in the African Centre of the University of Bayreuth.
The presentation of Iluminando Vidas at the 5th African Photography Encounters in Bamako was a full success. The public and press payed special attention to it. ArteInfo (31.10.2003) e.g. sent a little reportage with an interview of Kok Nam. More see Press clippings...
(Zurich, August, 2003)
Iluminando Vidas is invited to participate in the 5es Rencontres de la photographie africaine in Bamako, from October 20 to November 20, 2003.
more...
(Zurich, August, 2003)
Iluminando Vidas was shown for the first time in Mozambique with a big public success: accompanied by the swinging Grupo de Jazz de Maputo the atmospheric opening was joined by 300–400 persons. During the 4 weeks more than 1'900 persons visited the exhibition. The medias, TV and Radio Stations and the Press reported largely about Iluminando Vidas (see Press Clippings).
Impressions...
Exhibition Tour: Switzerland, Mozambique and Africa
(Zurich, August, 2003)
Iluminando Vidas is a travelling exhibition. It has been shown successfully at three venues in Switzerland: from 13.4–19.5.2002 in the PhotoforumPasquArt in Biel/Bienne, from 8.6.–21.7.2002 in the Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano, and from 29.11.–15.12.2002 at the School of Art and Design in Basel (SfG Basel). Iluminando Vidas was shown equally successfully from 26.4.–25.5.2003 for the first time in Mozambique in Maputo at the gallery of the Associação Moçambicana de Fotografia (AMF). The next station is Bamako. It is hoped to present Iluminando Vidas in South Africa, Namibia and other cities in Mozambique in 2004.
more...
Portugal Tour cancelled
(Zurich, January, 2003)
At two other venues in Portugal (Museu da Imagem in Braga and Museu Municipal in Portimão) Iluminando Vidas had to be cancelled for financial reasons.
(Zurich, November 2002)
The exhibition at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel (School of Art and Design Basel) was accompanied by the works of 11 students of the Basel School of Art and Design produced in the workshop 'From day to day - daily observations' with the Mozambican photographers Ricardo Rangel, Joel Chiziane and Sérgio Santimano, when they visited Switzerland in April 2002.
Impressions...
(Zurich, October 2002)
From October 15 to November 15, 2002 Maputo will host an event called Photofesta, as part of the comemorations of the tenth anniversary of the peace agreement signature.
The event is co-organized by AMF (the Mozambican Association of Photographers), CDFF (Photographic Training and Documentation Centre) and CCFM (the French/Mozambican Cultural Centre) and comprises 12 photo exhibitions. It covers issues related to Mozambican history from the last century up to the present and includes a workshop on the topic 'Indian Ocean, the land and the people' as well as a whole series of events and exhibitions in various locations in the vicinity of Maputo such as Xipamanine, Matendene, Catembe and Matola.
Pressrelease Photofesta 2002
Program Photofesta 2002
Next exhibition in Switzerland: Basel
(Zurich, October 2002)
From November 30 to December 15, 2002, Iluminando Vidas will be on display at the exhibition facilities 'Auf der Lyss' of the Schule für Gestaltung Basel (School of Art and Design Basel).
The exhibition will be accompanied by the works of 11 students of the Basel School of Design produced in the workshop 'From day to day - daily observations' with the Mozambican photographers Ricardo Rangel, Joel Chiziane and Sérgio Santimano. A supporting meeting on December 1 will underline these works. The workshop was held as a part of the exhibition project in April 2002 following the opening of the exhibition at the PhotoforumPasquArt in Bienne.
Medienmitteilung Basel
Opening of the exhibition in Lugano, Switzerland, June 7, 2002: Curator Bruno Z'Graggen welcomes the guests.
Opening of the exhibition in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, April 13, 2002: Curator Bruno Z'Graggen welcomes the guests.