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Sep 01, 2019
4 minutes
BY HOU HANRU
“A falling leaf returns to the roots.” This Chinese adage aptly describes the final days of one of the global art world’s most visionary figures, Okwui Enwezor, who passed away in Munich in March 2019. And now his body has been returned to his native Nigeria, surrounded by his closest family.
During his lifetime, Okwui was a veritable nomad and true cosmopolite. Born in postcolonial Africa, he adopted New York and then Munich as his new homes. He was radically contemporary: a constant traveler across the world, eloquently cultivated, impeccably elegant and absolutely urbane. A curator,
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