Moon And Hillbrow Tower ,2007
Provenance : [Propriété non datée]
- Private collection, Cape Town
- Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
Exhibited : Iziko National Gallery, Cape Town; Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg; Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, 'A Resilient Visionary: Poetic Expressions of David Koloane', 1 June 2019 to 22 February 2020.
Literature : Goniwe, T. (ed). (2019). 'The Resilient Visionary: Poetic Expressions of David Koloane'. Johannesburg: Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, illustrated in colour on p.86.
Notes : In a walkabout for the 2019 exhibition, A Resilient Visionary: Poetic Expressions of David Koloane, (opening in May at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town and in October at the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg), Standard Bank Art Gallery curator Dr Same Ndluli, conveys Johannesburg as Koloane’s ‘muse’. She mentions his daily route to his studio in Fordsburg from his home in Hillbrow, a 4km stretch, rich in history, architecture, and commotion. The evidence of this personal journey is clear in his work through his subject matter, including one of his common motifs and well-known landmark of Johannesburg, the iconic Hillbrow Tower.
The exhibition was curated by art historian and writer Theminkosi Goniwe. Despite spending most of his life in the city, Koloane’s interest in the City of Gold can be described as an avid curiosity. The artist was compelled to explore the streets he knew so well and represented these observations through his layered brushstrokes and detailed landscapes. Goniwe described Koloane: “He was like a flaneur, but not in the conventional, European sense. He delved into the city’s back alleys, he saw and smelt the city, he heard her sounds as he observed the transitions and changes in Jo’burg. But he was not a passive consumer of the city, he was also a participant.”[1]
Micaela Wentzel
[1] Tolsi, N., David Koloane’s art is a love letter to Jo’burg
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