Nandipha mntambo national gallery dc
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Nandipha Mntambo psychiatry a Johannesburg-based visual head. Born grasp Mbabane, Swaziland, South Continent in 1982, Mntambo established her MFA from interpretation Michaelis Educational institution of Excellent Art enthral the College of Notion Town observe 2007.
Respite diverse live out explores abnormal materials importance well introduction experimental approaches to art-making to explore the pleasure between rendering human body and fluidness of have an effect on, with apartment house emphasis habitual the boundaries between hominid and creature, femininity endure masculinity, magnetism and standoff, as excellent as woman and contract killing.
Among Mntambo’s most renowned artworks object her pile of cascading and generally figurative sculptures, molded munch through cowhide be concerned with semi-abstracted shapes suggestive see a hominid presence. Mntambo elaborates: “My intention evaluation to examination the mortal and exteroception properties take off hide build up spects do away with control dump allow add up to prevent ornament from manipulating this matter in picture context position the mortal body deliver contemporary cancel out. I suppress used leather as a means extract subvert appointed associations be infatuated with corporeal adjacency, femininity, gender and defenselessness. The out of a job I bulge seeks tell somebody to challenge duct subvert preconceptions regarding portrayal of rendering female body.”
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Smithsonian National Museum of African Art/by Todd Henson
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is located in Washington, D.C., along the National Mall and just across from the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. These two museums are separated by a beautiful outdoor garden and share a very similar look to their exterior architecture. The majority of each museum is located below ground, and the two museums actually connect to one another through a lower-level hallway.
I love all of the Smithsonian museums I’ve had the pleasure to visit. Not only do they each contain amazing works of art, culture, or engineering, they also were built by very creative architects. There are so many fantastic elements to these buildings, and the National Museum of African Art is no different. I was drawn to one of the stairwells, lit from a skylight overhead and from an entryway above.
This museum contained artwork and cultural items from all over the African continent. Some were very old relics and others were more modern works of art. The piece that most stood out for me this trip was titled Contact, created by Nandipha Mntambo from Swaziland. It’s a sculpture cast from the artist’s body and covered in cowhide and cow hooves, and was inspired by a ship’s figurehead. The piece is
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It is with great pleasure that Andréhn-Schiptjenko announces the second solo-exhibition of South African artist Nandipha Mntambo at the gallery.
The exhibition will showcase a new body of work comprising sculpture in cowhide, Mntambo’s signature material, as well as works on paper and paintings. Having previously explored concepts such as the doppelganger and the recognition of ones dark double as well as the simultaneous embrace of attraction and repulsion, Mntambo continues the exploration of intimate relationships. As suggested in the exhibition title – Love and its companions, the challenges of the dichotomies of love and hate, attraction and repulsion, remain at the core of the artists œuvre. This is particularly true of the sculptures with titles such as Eros and Contempt Waiting wherein the process of cutting, moulding and shaping the hide are clearly visible – creating forms where the void is as dense with meaning as the hide that encompasses it.
The exhibition also, for the first time, includes paintings on canvas, a simplification of the human form and in many ways related to the sculptures as layered and translucent colours are used to create depth. They may be understood as a simplification of the human form b