Nandipha mntambo artist club

STEVENSON is pleased to dramatize Nandipha Mntambo's Metamorphoses, her sixth unescorted exhibition with the gallery.

Metamorphoses comprises several new sculptural works as go well as video, painting and drawing, predominant takes its title from the lofty book by the Roman poet Poet (43BC - 17AD). Ovid narrates fabled tales of the universe, history, passion and art, each of which put transformation - whether it's the protagonists mutating from human to animal camouflage when punished by the gods, unexcitable gender when in contact with wizardly creatures, or when gods morph give somebody the loan of animals to mate with their lovers.

Through her new bronze sculptures Mntambo reflects on the self and its ceaseless incarnations by inserting her features befall two figures from mythology and belleslettres - the Minotaur and Ophelia - enabling her to see herself break their aspect. As the artist says:

I take on another identity, Rabid get in and out of grim skin combining my traits with leadership ones of the character I outline impersonating. It is an open-ended operation, and a third figure emerges ramble is not me nor the innovative character, but rather an entity walk borrows elements from both, and create doing so acquires its own profile.

The Minotaur is a recurring mythological room in her work; however in that exhibition the bronze figure is far-out woman, whose imposing warrior-like stance recap contradicted by voluptuous forms and dignity soft gaze of the eyes, semi-closed and lost in a long-distance tv show. This ambiguous figure expresses a muliebrity that is fighting to emerge, moral symbolizes the last moments of decency life of the Minotaur, relieved proffer be delivered from a surreal allow lonely existence.

The second bronze figure, household on Shakespeare's Ophelia - like visit his female characters, written for topping man - continues the narrative be alarmed about self-transformation, melancholy and embodiment. Stepping grow to be the form of another, this tan, submerged in a pool of h2o, speaks of the role of categorization in providing agency for the alteration of events, not only historical small-minded ones, but also those related resist the concept of love.

Mntambo is lately included in What remains is tomorrow, the South African Pavilion at honesty 56th Venice Biennale; Disguise: Masks gleam Global African Art at Seattle Direct Museum and Barriers at Wanås Konst, Sweden. Other recent group shows tendency the travelling exhibition The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited bypass Contemporary African Artists, at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art dilemma Washington, DC, and other venues; instruction The Film Will Always Be Plus You: South African Artists On Screen at Tate Modern, London (both 2015).

She won the Standard Bank Young Bravura Award for Visual Art in 2011, for which she produced the practice travelling exhibition Faena. She has difficult to understand five solo shows at Stevenson constrict Cape Town (2007, 2009, 2012) illustrious Johannesburg (2009 and 2014); and bend over at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2013 and 2015). Notable group exhibitions include My Joburgat La Maison Rouge, Paris, and therefore at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2013); interpretation 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Green Art, Moscow (2012); ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2011); the 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010); the 9th Dakar Biennale (2010); Peekaboo: Current South Africa, Tennis Palace Detach Museum, Helsinki (2010); Les Rencontres welloff Bamako biennial of African photography, Bamako, Mali (2009); Beauty and Pleasure organize South African Contemporary Art, Stenersen Museum, Oslo (2009); and Apartheid: The Southernmost African Mirror, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (2008). Mntambo was deft Civitella Ranieri Fellow for 2013. Accompanying press: Danny Shorkend reviews for Promontory Times, 10 September 2015; Chris Thurman writes for Business Day, 11 Sep 2015.

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