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AFRO MAGAZINE
Artists’ magazine
Published by The President
Award-winning Pan-African publication
Peet Pienaar, Editor
Heidi Chisholm, Designer
Early 2000s

From the Collection of Petra Mason
‘Artists’ book, AFRO has been in my collection since 2004. Artist Peet
Pienaar explained the impossible to place piece:
“It was about new writing and exploring African principals in design. No
linear engagement. Appropriating Western symbols and logos with new
African meanings. Like, Nike means ‘cool and urban’ and Coke means
‘shop.’ The writing was all from new and then-unknown writers and
photographers from all over Africa.”
There is no codex in ‘AFRO’, and it reads like a concrete poem. To open
it you have to unwrap it like a giant wrapped candy. Putting it back
together is a puzzle.’ -Excerpt from Petra Mason’s Curatorial Essay