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Intraparadox, Interview with Wonder Buhle Mbambo
A revolution has occurred which has seen the emergence of art that has no affinity to socio-political stances in our country or globally history or happenings. This is art at the service of the artists themselves. A personal encounter, a man on the mirror affair at its core. Wonder Buhle Mbambo’s work snugly first within…
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Comfort (2020), the centerpiece
Inanda Dam, The Ocean, The Rondavels, Hair, Impepho, Grandmother’s Lucky Flowers, Stars and Gold are the symbols that are part of the artist’s oeuvre at the moment. I think these symbols are summed up well in the work Comfort (2020). It is in this work that a union of what has informed the artist’s output…
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Limbo
These days a Friday does not signify the end of the week that has been or a reflection of the challenges past and the anticipation of what’s coming. The transition between these markers of time zones are blotted out. Everyday feels like just like any other day. The days come and go. The markers are…
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Translucency
In the sudden tempest you will feeble brittle like the whistling wind through an autumned jacaranda.
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Grip
If the cause of COVID-19 was not human invention with a global agenda then there is hope. however if it was launched as a biological weapon in the heart of China to shift the balance of power we can spend some time pondering who is responsible and marvel at the coldness of humanity, driven by…
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Grandmother Hearth
i looked at her face And i was confronted by engraved tributaries Spidying in trickles trinkets in a thousand cracks impressions Hair bleached By the wink and dosing suns That peer, skip and dunked away during her lifetime Silvered not by artificial means, nay-nay But a grey of knowledge
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COACO: Morena David Mthubu Koloane
Art and its fountainhead, the artist, must evolve. It should try not to take sides but narrate what it observes in a constantly evolving style that is not rigid in technique and possibilities. An artists must remember that as much as they love what they do the results are two fold, self actualisation through their…