Mamadou Cissé | A Griot For Modern Cosmopolis
At the antipode of countryside mythology and suburbian utopianism, the imaginary cities of Mamadou Cissé burst forth from their colourful grids across the landscape of the creative spectrum.
Mary Evans | Cut and Paste
For the better part of 20 years, mixed media artist Mary Evans has fused elements of her Nigerian heritage and European upbringing. Spending her shaping years between the cities of Lagos and London made…
Misheck Masamvu | You Are Outside The System
Part of Zimbabwe’s ‘born-free generation’ Misheck Masamvu bucked expectations when he decided to become an artist. Born in the 1980s to a Shona blue collar family from Mutare and Marondera, there was an…
Givan Lötz | Given To Colour, Light, The Bioscope
It’s not uncommon to walk into a friend of a friend’s apartment downtown Cape Town and see one of his pieces, larger than life. A friend in New York recently sent me his…
Chiseled in Vain
At first thought deceased Ivorian sculpture, Koffi Kouakou could have been a modern day Guipetto, sculpting Pinocchio-like objects of his desires but one has to see some humour and wit far more stealthy…
Democracy in Multiples
This past month, July 2011, Austrian born and South African based artist Wolf Weinek aged 74 years old passed away. In remembrance of his life and works a facebook page was created to…
