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Author: Themba Tsotsi

Nolan Oswald Dennis,

03/03/19 at 12:41 pm

Oswald Dennis’ work is usually characterised by intricate topographical images that discourse the impact of colonialism on the African continent. In the ‘Options’ exhibition the artist showed that he is concerned with the impact of colonialism on the existential and ontological space. Intricate works or drawings also characterise this show, but their relationship with text is characterised by words that denote prepositions, text that articulate a sense of relevance in the protracted post-colonial present.
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Themba Tsotsi on the work of the South African artist Nolan Oswald Dennis

Options, 2018

Serge Alain Nitegeka

03/10/18 at 17:55 pm

Nitegeka’s exhibitions make the audience conscious of the exhibition space; the audience member comes to form part of the exhibition this way. (…)Perception in a Nitegeka exhibition is significant to the extent that its extension related the audience member to the physical malleability of the gallery space.

Themba Tsotsi on the work of Burundi born, Johannesburg based Serge Alain Nitegeka (1983)

Colour and Form. LXXII, 2018

Jabulani Dhlamini: iXesha

23/08/18 at 09:26 am

JabuSeriesKwa Qawekazi, Orlando West, 2018

Dhlamini utilised the concept of time as historic through the fleeting moment of the camera lens to examine social ills in contemporary South Africa.

The South African critic Themba Tsotsi on the photographer Jabulani Dhlamini

Kwa Qawekazi Orlando West, 2018

Lhola Amira and the Mendi

09/06/18 at 10:47 am

By engaging African ritualistic elements in order to invoke themes of historic healing, the artist demonstrates the measure with which what is perpetual about the moral putrefaction that characterizes society is persevered by what is ambiguous between the play of history and time, and between historic moments and contemporary examination.

Themba Tsotsi on the last exhibition of Lhola Amira

Lhola at the opening of the exhibition

Composing with the eye: The work of Peter Clarke and Lionel Davis

01/04/18 at 11:16 am

LionelDavisMaskfrom-the-Masquerade-series_2009_Mixed-Media-and-Collage-on-Paper_57-x-40.2-cm_LR

Composition of the Eye is at a certain level a retrospective exhibition, it is also about the two artist careers that has spanned over fifty years combined. It is also about the merging of their discourses, this way both their aesthetic influences and impact can be deemed for their respective achievements. (…) Both their repertoire is or was informed by the techniques that informed Black artists during the apartheid era.

Themba Tsotsi on the work of the South African artists Peter Clarke and Lionel Davis

Lionel Davis, Mask, 2009.

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