"Not So Black and White 2008: South African Contemporary Art" Exhibition
Kyle Kauffman Gallery
This event has ended.
To mark the Gallery’s one year anniversary, The Kyle Kauffman Gallery is exhibiting some of our latest acquisitions, works that highlight recent trends in contemporary African painting, photography, sculpture, prints and new media.
This second incarnation of last year’s Not So Black and White, continues its focus on the great versatility and diversity of contemporary African art practices, aesthetics and thematic concerns. Willie Bester’s robust metal works, with their subtle yet biting allusions to post-apartheid life, are juxtaposed with Zwelethu Mthethwa’s bold, resolute photographs, whose subjects are portrayed as almost regal in their poverty. William Kentridge’s conceptual and formal explorations of human vision hang beside Karel Nel’s minimalist sculptural allusions to life lines broken in the time of AIDS. To round out the show, the Gallery is proud to be featuring works for the first time by acclaimed Zimbabwean Kudzanai Chiurai, the outspoken, young revolutionary artist willing to take on the political establishment in Zimbabwe, from which he is prohibited to return under the current regime. His prints, with their gritty urban aesthetic, blatantly address the upheaval within his own strife-ridden country.
These artists, both young and old, are emblematic of an exploding contemporary art scene that is evolving in its contextual use of various approaches to media, form, and content, and that continues to question the societal and political atmosphere of Africa’s present historical moment.
For further information, please contact the Gallery.
[Image: William Kentridge "Birdcatcher (detail) 2006 Archival pigment print, 59.5 x 42.5 in. Copyright William Kentridge]
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Schedule
from September 18, 2008 to October 12, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-09-18 from 18:00 to 20:00