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'Against the Grain: sculptors from the Cape'
Isaac Makeleni, Thami Kiti, Ishmael Thyssen, Timothy Mafenuka and Shepherd Mbanya at Iziko South African National Gallery'Against the Grain: sculptors from the Cape', showcases the works of five local wood sculptors: Isaac Makeleni, Ishmael Thyssen, Shepherd Mbanya, Timothy Mafenuka and Thami Kiti. For decades working with little acknowledgment and support, these artists have produced significant works that are skilful, imaginative, earnest and playful.
Hosted by Iziko Museums of South Africa at the Iziko South African National Gallery, this first- ever collaboration by Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), Sanlam, Western Cape Provincial Government’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport; National Arts Council of South Africa; Business and Arts South Africa; Centre for Curating the Archive and the Michaelis School of Fine Art (UCT), this exhibition opens a new chapter in South African art.
The exhibition addresses a diversity of themes that engage with the recent and distant past, as well as the contemporary present. Curated by ASAI founder, Mario Pissarra, 'Against the Grain' questions the marginalisation of these sculptors within the South African art-world, as well as the low visibility of black African wood sculptors within the broader discourse of contemporary African art.
15 August 2013 - 17 September 2013