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This publication documents the three editions of Patterns for (Re)cognition, an exhibition comprising various duos with Tshela Tendu conceived by Vincent Meessen: at KIOSK (Ghent, 2013), Kunsthalle Basel (2015), and BOZAR (Brussels, 2017). It also offers new perspectives on the reception of this assemblage that was intended to cast a contemporary eye on the abstract works that the Congolese artist, Tshela Tendu – better known until now by the name of Djilatendo – painted in the period between 1929 and 1932. The book brings together for the first time all of Tshela Tendu's geometric abstractions, most of which are completely unknown to the public. Their presentation is discussed in a series of dialogues that Vincent Meessen conducts with artist and curator Toma Muteba Luntumbue, publisher Guy Jungblut, curator Elena Filipovic, ethnohistorian Jan Vansina, and art historian Yasmine Van Pee. Through a polemic approach to abstraction, which is perceived, beyond its formal aspects, as both an epistemic issue and a power matrix, Vincent Meessen proposes a 'para-curatorial' operation that casts light on a blind spot in colonial modernity. The book was first presented featuring a round table discussion on 8 September 2017, with Morad Montazami discussing the themes broached in the exhibition and publication, together with Vincent Meessen, Toma Muteba Luntumbue, Yasmine Van Pee, researcher-curator Bambi Ceuppens and art historian Kathrin Langenohl.

kunst --- 75.071 TENDU --- 7.071 MEESSEN --- video-installaties --- installaties --- schilderkunst --- Meessen Vincent --- postkolonialisme --- kolonialisme --- Djilatendo --- Congo --- België --- abstractie --- abstracte schilderkunst --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Tendu Tshela --- Exhibitions --- Tendu, Tshela --- Meessen, Vincent --- Art, Abstract --- Meessen, Vincent, --- Tshyela Ntendu, --- Tendu, Tshela & Meessen, Vincent

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In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of “reverse migration”—a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly.

77.03 --- 77.04 --- kunst --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- kolonialisme --- postkolonialisme --- kunst en politiek --- kunst en economie --- film --- fotografie --- Augustijnen Sven --- Meessen Vincent --- Bhimji Zarina --- Martens Renzo --- Hugo Pieter --- globalisering --- neoliberalisme --- 7.01 --- 7.039 --- Documentaire fotografie --- Artistieke fotografie. Foto's naar het onderwerp --- Postcolonialism and the arts. --- Postcolonialism --- Documentary films --- Documentary photography --- Africa --- Colonial influence. --- 77.04 Artistieke fotografie. Foto's naar het onderwerp --- 77.03 Documentaire fotografie --- Postcolonialisme et arts. --- Postcolonialisme et arts --- Postcolonialisme --- Documentaires --- Photographie documentaire --- Afrique --- Influence coloniale --- Art --- art [fine art] --- colonization --- colonies --- globalization --- Martens, Renzo --- Meessen, Vincent --- Hugo, Pieter --- Bhimji, Zarina --- Augustijnen, Sven --- art [discipline] --- dekolonisatie

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Higher education --- art education --- kunstonderwijs --- Higher Institute for Fine Arts Flanders [Antwerp] --- kunst --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- site-specific art --- HISK --- Aires Carlos --- Avila Plinio --- Brody Ondrej --- van den Broeck Koen --- Claes Sara --- De Cupere Peter --- Deboosere Sarah --- Declercq Koert --- Dheedene Stefaan --- Fekovic Jasmina --- Geerts Bart --- Goetschalckx Wannes --- Goiris Geert --- Guiot Nicolas --- Haines Elizabeth --- Hollerer Clemens --- Hrabluik Allison --- Hullegie Nick --- van Ingelgem Herman --- Ingimarsdottir Gudny Rosa --- Klimova Barbora --- Leech Adam --- Mathysen Pieter --- Meessen Vincent --- De Meutter Ellen --- Paelinck & Bovyn, GmbH --- Paetau Kristofer --- Provost Nicolas --- Nicolodi Renato --- Nollet Lien --- Riemis Dimitri --- Roncada Arno --- Sudhues Max --- Szacsva y Pal --- Timmermans Ante --- Verdonck Kris --- Vervaet Filip --- Vranken Leon --- 7.039 --- Exhibitions