beautiful paintings by Mazorol Kerr

just some sweet art by Molly Rose Dyson. one has to have a post about some sweet art..

Michael Tyler

Another brilliant local artist

Nicholas Hlobo



 

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It's hard to figure out what the giant piece of art is, as it slumbers in front of you. The large-scale sculpture Ingubo Yesizwe by this year's Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art, Nicholas Hlobo is now on exhibition at the Michael Stevenson gallery in Woodstock, after traveling the great seas and back again.

The sculpture was the centrepiece of Hlobo's exhibition at Tate Modern, London, which ran from December 2008 to March 2009 in the Level 2 Gallery. Made of leather off-cuts, rubber, ribbons and gauze, with an underlying steel structure, the work resembles a great, slouching creature, measuring 30 metres from its head to the tip of its long tail.

The title of the work, Ingubo Yesizwe, translates as 'clothes or blanket of the nation', referring to the Xhosa ritual whereby cowhide is used to cover a corpse before burial to protect the deceased as they enter the afterlife. The Tate Modern exhibition curator, Kerryn Greenberg, wrote: 'Ingubo Yesizwe implies protection, integration, and the potential for transformation, both of the materials Hlobo uses and the country he lives in.

 

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Thoba, utsale umnxeba” (2010)
Nicholas Hlobo’s handmade costumes serve the function of helping to establish his character within his performance pieces. In the piece above, the title of which means “to lower onself and make a call” in Xhosa, Hlobo wears his robe and cap in meditative concentration in order to communicate with “the space, the museum, the gallery, the location of the museum, the culture — the culture is almost foreign to me,” as he says in a interview. Hlobo’s practice includes sculptural pieces which sometimes incorporate clothing as ways to challenge or interrogate gender, sexuality, and culture and relationship of each to different notions such as comfort, pleasure, or protection.

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ingubu 1

 

 



robert hodgins

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