Bottoms Up ,2015
Herkunft : [Propriété non datée]
- Private collection, Cape Town
Exhibited : Goodman Gallery at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2016, New York.
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Anmerkung : A social activist, Misheck Masamvu portrays discourses and scenes of contemporary Zimbabwe. Working with oil on canvas, Masamvu destabilises the subject through his dynamic paint application and bold colouring. The mixture of light-heartedness and dark humour with the guidance of simple, sharp titles illustrates the dichotomy and uncertainty of what it means to him to be Zimbabwean. Trained in traditional painting at the Atelier Delta and Kunste Akademie in Munich, he conveys the contradictory feelings associated with his home country through an abstracted neo-expressionist style he developed post-university. His many accolades include representing Zimbabwe at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, the São Tomé Biennale and the 2016 São Paulo Biennale. Mischeck Masamvu’s works have featured in three major Zeitz MOCAA group exhibitions: All things being equal… in 2017, Five Bhobh – Painting at the End of an Era in 2018-2019 and the Artists in Dialogue series, Two Together in 2019. Additionally, he presented solo exhibitions Still / Still at Goodman Gallery, Cape Town in 2016; Epitaph at blank projects, Cape Town in 2012 and A Naked Mind I at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo in 2002.
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