A retrospective celebrating the life and work of Esther Mahlangu follows the 88-year-old painter and mural artist’s unusual trajectory from rural South Africa to global acclaim. After Cape Town, it will be taken on an international tour.
Over the past 50 years, artists including Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer and Roy Lichtenstein have been selected to use a BMW as their canvas, creating the famous BMW Art Cars. Mehretu’s work, the latest in this series, will be painted on a BMW M Hybrid V8 race car, which will debut on the track at the Le Mans 24-hour race in June 2024.
The famed Ndebele artist, who has been violently attacked in her home, is a peerless cultural warrior who has both been rewarded and paid a price for her contribution to South African art