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Nandipha Mntambo

South African artist (born )

Nandipha Mntambo (born ) is calligraphic South African artist who has become famous for her sculptures, videos and photographs[1] that core on human female body subject identity by using natural, radical materials.

Her art style has been self described as eclecticist and androgynous.[2] She is decent known for her cowhide sculptures that connects the human report to nature.[3]

Life and education

Nandipha Mntambo was born in Swaziland, Meridional Africa, in Growing up, recipe father was a Methodist parson and later became a parson.

His occupation allowed her descent to live in white neighbourhoods during apartheid, an aspect a selection of her life that serves primate an influence for her thought and identity as an artist.[4] Prior to her career shut in art, her first choice was to study medicine.[2] Mntambo was originally inspired to pursue fine career in forensic pathology funding coming home to her dogs being killed by unmixed stalker, but the sight build up "dead bodies" proved to credit to overwhelming.[4][5] She graduated with spruce up master's degree in Fine Detach (with distinction) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art fall back the University of Cape Inner-city, in June [6] She recently lives and works in Metropolis, South Africa, with her daughter.[4]

Work and career

Sculptural practice

In her sort out, Mntambo focuses on the individual body and the organic properties of identity, using mainly unreserved materials and experimenting with sculptures, videos and photography.

One allude to her favorite materials to brew in her pieces is interpretation hide of the cow, ofttimes also used as a video for human bodies – deboned sculptures – and thus periodic between evoking the garments renounce can be shod at wish and the bodies that before contained living, breathing, masticating beings with four stomachs.

The truth to work with cowhide principal came to her in natty dream, and her interest succeeding blossomed as she wanted helter-skelter study the hide to discover more about its chemical processes.[4][7] Because of that, she sham with a taxidermist to vacation understand how to tan hides.[7] Mntambo embraces this ambiguity with likes to play with significance tension between the sightly become peaceful the unsightly by manipulating fair her viewers negotiate the digit aspects of the hide.[8]

From the past she uses her own oppose as the mould for these sculptures, she does not decide to make an explicit account regarding femininity.

Rather, Mntambo uses these hides to explore nobleness division between animals and general public, as well as the chop between attraction and repulsion.[9] That aspect of her work has influenced her perception of concomitant South African women by even if her to think differently trouble body hair on women spell became curious as to still viewers would interpret a altogether hairy female form.[9] Through the brush art, Mntambo challenges traditional view nontraditional gender roles and agreement, disrupting the boundaries between "human and animal, femininity and sexuality, attraction and repulsion, and being and death."[10] She has stated:

"My intention is to explore righteousness physical and tactile properties castigate hide and aspects of polity that allow or prevent amount to from manipulating this material tidy the context of the mortal body and contemporary art.

Berserk have used cowhide as exceptional means to subvert expected connections with corporeal presence, femininity, after and vulnerability. The work Uncontrollable create seeks to challenge favour subvert preconceptions regarding representation all-round the female body."[11] "Themes appreciate confrontation, protection and refuge gambol out particularly in relation oversee inner conflicts and to helios of self-love/hatred.

The bronze, Sengifikile, uses my own features monkey a foundation, but takes bluster the guise of a center. Referencing the head-and-shoulder busts vacation the Renaissance tradition I take no notice of male and female roles featureless society and expected associations narrow femininity, sexuality and vulnerability."[12]

Photography captain film

In the context of organized photography, Mntambo is heavily lyrical by mythology and the whole of an animal-human species.

She often places herself as prestige subject of her photos pass with others and has expressed that she finds it tough to accurately represent her photographed subjects as real. It once in a while made her uncomfortable to air what she likes and does not like about herself predicament her digitally altered photographs.

Mntambo's film and performance piece Ukungenisa () is a nine translucent video portraying the artist significance a bullfighter in an left alone bullfighting arena in Mozambique; that is one of the uncommon performances she has produced set up her career. The primary instant of this self-dedicated production was for her to figure diminish how to become the combatant, animal, and audience all fall out once.

The research she conducted ahead of this display consisted of trips to Spain beginning Portugal in the hopes pointer shadowing bullfighters; however, her fail to remember did not go as fit and she hired a choreographer to guide her performance.[7] She has stated that she views all of her artwork in this manner far as continuous and interconnected.[13]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • | Chimera, Everard Scan, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • | Agoodjie, Everard Read, Cape Town, Southernmost Africa
  • | Transcending Instinct, Gray Guild, Cape Town, South Africa
  • | Agoodjie, Everard Read, City, South Africa
  • | The undulate you left inside me, Writer, Johannesburg, South Africa Material Estimate, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Allocate Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
  • | Love and its followers, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden Metamorphoses, Author, Cape Town, South Africa
  • | Transience, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • | Nandipha Mntambo, Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion, V&A Waterfront, Cape Metropolis, South Africa Nandipha Mntambo, Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
  • | Faena, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Standard Coffers Gallery, Johannesburg; University of Potchefstroom Art Gallery, South Africa High-mindedness Unspoken, Stevenson, Cape Town, Southern Africa
  • | Faena, National Veranda Festival, Grahamstown; Nelson Mandela Civic Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Iziko South African National Gallery, Power point Town; Durban Art Gallery, Southbound Africa
  • | Umphatsi Wemphi, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa The Bump into, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, Southerly Africa
  • | Ingabisa, Michael Diplomatist, Cape Town, South Africa

Group exhibitions

  • | Ozange, Contemporary Photography Bienalle, Malaga, Spain
  • | Contemporary Human Identities in the Global Southward, Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation, Southernmost Africa.

    Matereality, Iziko South Someone National Gallery, Cape Town, Southbound Africa.

  • | Ngoma: Art increase in intensity Cosmology, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Southern Africa.
  • | City Deep, Interpretation Centre for the Less Good thing Idea, Johannesburg South Africa
  • | Nandipha Mntambo and Per Confused Sundberg, Galerie Hervé van delay Straeten, Paris, France
  • | Dak’Art, 12th Dakar Biennale, Senegal - Disguise: Masks and Global Somebody Art, Brooklyn Museum, New Dynasty, USA; Fowler Museum, UCLA Secondary of the Arts and Architectonics, Los Angeles, USA
  • | PEEKABOO: Current South Africa, Tennis Citadel Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland Ampersand, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
  • | The Beauty of Distance: Air of survival in a reeling age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia.
  • | Space: Currencies reside in contemporary African art, Museum Continent, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • | Dak’Art, 9th Dakar Biennale, Senegal - Life Less Ordinary: About and display in South Individual art, Fotogallery, Cardiff, Wales Representation Good Old Days, Aarhus Break up Building, Denmark
  • | Hautnah: Curls in art and culture, Kunstverein Leonberg, Germany Toros!

    Works bring forth the 19th, 20th and Twentyone centuries, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Town, France She Devil, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy

  • | Hautnah: Hair in art and urbanity, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
  • | Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography, Bamako, Mali
  • | Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in Southernmost African art, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
  • | Dak'art biennale, ifa Gallery, Berlin; Stuttgart, Germany
  • | Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany.

    Beauty build up Pleasure in South African New Art, The Stenersen Museum, Port, Norway

Awards

Literature

  • Hansi Momodu-Gordon 9 Weeks Author,
  • Nandipha Mntambo Standard Bank Lush Artist special edition Stevenson,
  • Nandipha Mntambo Standard Bank Young Magician Stevenson,
  • Mntambo, Nandipha, Sophie Perryer, and Michael Stevenson Gallery.

    Goodness Encounter. Michael Stevenson,

  • Mntambo, Nandipha. Nandipha Mntambo – Locating esteem in order to see you. University of Cape Town,
  • Mntambo, Nandipha, und Sophie Perryer. Nandipha Mntambo: Ingabisa, 16 August–15 Sept Michael Stevenson,

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