Kemang Wa Lehulere

My apologies to time, again, 201756 x 77cm750 GBP

Details

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photo polymer relief print on somerset velvet antique 300gsmblank projectsCape Town

Description

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This artwork, titled "Sovereign," features a bold, black-and-white stamp-like design. The composition is centered around a prominent figure resembling a monarch or sovereign, surrounded by various animal and symbolic elements. The style is distinctly graphic, employing high-contrast shapes and a distinctive border that evokes a postage stamp. The overall impression is one of authority, power, and a sense of the colonial or imperialist era. The artist's intention may have been to comment on notions of sovereignty, power structures, and the symbolism associated with such concepts during a particular historical period. ...

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Artist

Kemang Wa Lehulere

1984 , South African

Kemang Wa Lehulere’s practice engages with the past of South Africa, tracing the ways it still haunts the country’s current condition. Working with personal and collective histories and archives, the artist repeatedly employs found objects representing both individual and collective memory. Wooden, old-looking school desks or mass-produced ceramic sculptures of Alsatian dogs are at once familiar and alienating; a reminder from childhood also acting as a reminder of the complexity of social structures within the Apartheid regime of South Africa. Inspired by set design and theatre, Wa Lehulere’s drawings and ‘living sculptures’, comprising smudged chalk drawings on blackboards, sculptures made of grass and soil and wall etchings, further dwell on the processes of revision, juxtaposition and the malfunction of histories. By making history physical and personal, the artist contrasts liberation with repression and sharply connects the painful past with a painful present. ...

Kemang Wa Lehulere: Artworks

Kemang Wa LehulereForget me not, 2015Price on Request

Kemang Wa LehulereDo not go far, they say, again, 2015Price on Request

Kemang Wa LehulereMy apologies to time, again 2, 2015Price on Request

Kemang Wa LehulereDo not go far, they say, again 3, 2015Price on Request

Kemang Wa LehulereUnfulfilled desire 1, 2015Price on Request

Kemang Wa LehulereDo not go far, they say, again 2, 2015Price on Request

Kemang Wa LehulereMy apologies to time, again, 2015Price on Request

Kemang Wa LehulereMy apologies to time, again, 2017750 GBP

Gallery

blank projects

Cape Town

Based in a 360 sqm gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town, blank was founded by Jonathan Garnham as a project space in 2005 and transitioned into a commercial gallery during 2012. The gallery represents emerging and increasingly established artists from the region in a critically engaged programme that emphasises contemporaneity, with a focus on concept and abstraction in the African context. With an exhibition programme that has a reputation for shaping the discourse around contemporary art in South(ern) Africa, and participation in prominent local and international art fairs, we seek to place our artists' work in a wide range of private and institutional collections. In addition, blank continues to promote the visual arts in our community through ongoing projects that support the sector. ...