Venice Biennale Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa in and out of Africa A Major Exhibition at the 49th Venice Biennale Curated by Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe June 6-November 4, 2001 Willem Boshoff Maria  Magdalena Campos-Pons Godfried Donkor Rachid Koraïchi Berni Searle Zineb Sedira Yinka Shonibare Venue: Palazzo Fondazione Levi San Marco, 2893 30124 Venezia Tel. 041 786777 Press Conference: 7 June 2001 @ 11:30 a.m., Palazzo Fondazione Levi Opening Reception: 7 June 2001 @ 12:30 p.m., Palazzo Fondazione Levi Party:       8 June 2001 @ 8:00 p.m.-midnight, Venue TBA Daily hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free and open to the public. Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa in and out of Africa is major exhibition to be held as part of the upcoming 49th Venice Biennale. Co-curated by Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe, the exhibition features seven prominent contemporary African and African Diaspora artists who work within the conceptual mode, and highlights the most recent currents in contemporary African art practice through work that speaks directly to issues of representation, memory, Diaspora, exile and other aspects of the African experience. An accompanying full-length book offers a fresh look at conceptualism and post-modernism from an African standpoint, and at issues of cross-cultural and trans-national aesthetics.  Organized by the Forum For African Arts, Inc. For more information please contact: In the USA Kim Cornish   Forum for African Arts Tel (607) 255-1890/0696 Fax (607) 254-5000 E-mail: afrartists-mailbox@cornell.edu In Venice: Marta Savaris Fondazione Querine Stampalia 5252 Castello, Campo S. Maria Formosa 30122 Venezia Tel. 041-2711 422 E-mail: ddediana.querini@provincia.venezia.it