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Ozelwe embethe , 2020. Cow dung, oil paint and gesso on canvas. 170 x 300cm. ( © Mawande Ka Zenzile. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town. Photography Mario Todeschini )
The decolonisation of art and art studies has received a boost following the publication of the 49th issue of OnCurating.
The issue is titled Decolonial Propositions and co-edited by Nkule Mabaso and Jyoti Mistry.
Set against the growing urgency for transformation in art institutions and universities, it proposes decolonisation as a politics of recognition.
OnCurating is an independent journal based at the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland and is supported by the university’s Postgraduate Programme in Curating at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts. The journal collaborates with different institutions to focus on questions around curatorial practice and theory and is read in 120 countries.
“The sale entitled
African Lion: John Muafangejo Works from The Orde Levinson Collection offers a sweeping overview of the artist’s trailblazing career,” says Dr Alastair Meredith, a senior art specialist at Strauss & Co who led negotiations for this important consignment. “The group of works on offer reveals a lifetime of patient, focused collecting, and gives print enthusiasts a rare opportunity to acquire examples from a collection of museum-grade quality, scope and historical weight. Dedicating an entire sale to a single artist is unique, of course, and allows academics and collectors alike to better appreciate this artist’s remarkable output.”
“Politically, socially, and creatively, we need to be around each other on some level. Maybe that’s virtual for now, but there’s something about the physicality of being able to hold on to each other that is just human at its core. It’s essential,” says Khanya Mashabela, the Norval Foundation’s newest curator, on her recently opened exhibition,
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Featuring works by 11 modern and contemporary South African artists, the exhibition ruminates on the act of social gathering in all of its varied forms. An act that has taken on an unbelievable (and unprecedented) complexity in our Covid-19-riddled contemporary moment.
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