Nandipha Mntambo; Swazi 1982-; Narcissus ,2009
Provenienza : Michael Stevenson Fine Art, Johannesburg. Property of Collectors.
Exhibited : Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, The Encounter, 16 April to 30 May 2009. Catalogue no 41: page 26, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on the cover and on page 27.
Literature : Sophie Perryer (ed.) (2011) Nandipha Mntambo: Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2011, Cape Town and Johannesburg: Stevenson in Association with Standard Bank and the National Arts Festival, page 62, another example from the edition illustrated in colour on page 64. Ross Truscott (2016) 'Empathy's echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling' in Safundi, 17(2): 1-21, illustrated on page 16, figure 3.
Note : Photographic compositing, Tony Meintjies. Nandipha Mntambo was born in Swaziland in 1982. She works between Cape Town and Johannesburg. Mntambo obtained her Master's in Fine Arts from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. In 2011, Mntambo was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist Award. She has had several solo shows in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Europe, with her work being included in many group shows locally and internationally. Mntambo works in sculpture, video, printmaking, performance, and photography. She is well known for her sculptural works in cowhide, which interrogate the form of gender in representation and the similarities and differences between humans and animals. Biography is courtesy of LL Editions.
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