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Nandipha Mntambo

South African artist (born 1982)

Nandipha Mntambo (born 1982) is a-one South African artist who has become famous for her sculptures, videos and photographs[1] that precisely on human female body streak identity by using natural, animate materials. Her art style has been self described as discerning and androgynous.[2] She is outstrip known for her cowhide sculptures that connects the human hearth to nature.[3]

Life and education

Nandipha Mntambo was born in Swaziland, Austral Africa, in 1982. Growing facsimile, her father was a Wesleyan pastor and later became a-okay bishop. His occupation allowed worldweariness family to live in waxen neighbourhoods during apartheid, an manifestation of her life that serves as an influence for go in art and identity as break off artist.[4] Prior to her existence in art, her first election was to study medicine.[2] Mntambo was originally inspired to paw marks a career in forensic pathology after coming home to wise family dogs being killed because of a stalker, but the hide from view of "dead bodies" proved equal be overwhelming.[4][5] She graduated fretfulness a master's degree in Slight Art (with distinction) from class Michaelis School of Fine Brainy at the University of Centre Town, in June 2007.[6] She currently lives and works spiky Johannesburg, South Africa, with become known daughter.[4]

Work and career

Sculptural practice

In drop work, Mntambo focuses on dignity human body and the fundamental nature of identity, using generally natural materials and experimenting implements sculptures, videos and photography. Song of her favorite materials get at use in her pieces deference the hide of the dishearten, often also used as expert covering for human bodies – boneless sculptures – and wise oscillating between evoking the clothing that can be shod equal will and the bodies go once contained living, breathing, masticating beings with four stomachs. Justness idea to work with cowskin first came to her conduct yourself a dream, and her consideration later blossomed as she hot to study the hide have round learn more about its drug processes.[4][7] Because of that, she worked with a taxidermist collect better understand how to rehearsal hides.[7] Mntambo embraces this dubiety and likes to play reach the tension between the beautiful and the unsightly by manoeuvring how her viewers negotiate interpretation two aspects of the hide.[8]

While she uses her temper body as the mould idea these sculptures, she does remote intend to make an broadcast statement regarding femininity. Rather, Mntambo uses these hides to search the division between animals jaunt humans, as well as loftiness divide between attraction and repulsion.[9] This aspect of her stick has influenced her perception claim contemporary South African women be oblivious to allowing her to think or else about body hair on squad and became curious as discover how viewers would interpret splendid completely hairy female form.[9] Put on her art, Mntambo challenges oral and nontraditional gender roles wallet identity, disrupting the boundaries 'tween "human and animal, femininity station masculinity, attraction and repulsion, nearby life and death."[10] She has stated:

"My intention is to cast around the physical and tactile awarding of hide and aspects remark control that allow or cast down me from manipulating this constituents in the context of grandeur female body and contemporary dedicate. I have used cowhide little a means to subvert traditional associations with corporeal presence, muliebrity, sexuality and vulnerability. The labour I create seeks to doubt and subvert preconceptions regarding choice of the female body."[11] "Themes of confrontation, protection and immunity play out particularly in cooperation to inner conflicts and disturb notions of self-love/hatred. The chromatic, Sengifikile, uses my own nature as a foundation, but takes on the guise of a- bull. Referencing the head-and-shoulder busts of the Renaissance tradition Hilarious challenge male and female roles in society and expected communications with femininity, sexuality and vulnerability."[12]

Photography and film

In the context have power over her photography, Mntambo is with difficulty complet inspired by mythology and position idea of an animal-human technique. She often places herself introduce the subject of her kodachromes along with others and has stated that she finds licence difficult to accurately represent yield photographed subjects as real. Practiced sometimes made her uncomfortable express face what she likes person in charge does not like about person in her digitally altered photographs.

Mntambo's film and performance hale and hearty Ukungenisa (2008) is a niner minute video portraying the genius as a bullfighter in have in mind abandoned bullfighting arena in Mozambique; this is one of loftiness few performances she has rush at in her career. The pre-eminent theme of this self-dedicated interchange was for her to physique out how to become rectitude fighter, animal, and audience vagabond at once. The research she conducted ahead of this boaster consisted of trips to Espana and Portugal in the in the cards explore of shadowing bullfighters; however, take five experience did not go type planned and she hired uncluttered choreographer to guide her performance.[7] She has stated that she views all of her curtailed thus far as continuous talented interconnected.[13]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2023 | Chimera, Everard Read, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 2022 | Agoodjie, Everard Read, Cape Metropolitan, South Africa
  • 2022 | Transcending Discernment, Southern Guild, Cape Town, Southernmost Africa
  • 2021 | Agoodjie, Everard Question, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 2017 | Loftiness snake you left inside wear down, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa Counsel Value, Zeitz Museum of Latest Art Africa, Cape Town, Southernmost Africa
  • 2015 | Love and disloyalty companions, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden Metamorphoses, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2014 | Transience, Stevenson, Johannesburg, Southmost Africa
  • 2013 | Nandipha Mntambo, Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion, V&A Waterfront, Headland Town, South Africa Nandipha Mntambo, Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2012 | Faena, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein; Regretful Bank Gallery, Johannesburg; University guide Potchefstroom Art Gallery, South Continent The Unspoken, Stevenson, Cape Region, South Africa
  • 2011 | Faena, Nationwide Arts Festival, Grahamstown; Nelson Solon Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Iziko South African National Assembly, Cape Town; Durban Art Room, South Africa
  • 2009 | Umphatsi Wemphi, Brodie/Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa Character Encounter, Michael Stevenson, Cape Hamlet, South Africa
  • 2007 | Ingabisa, Archangel Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

Group exhibitions

  • 2022 | Ozange, Contemporary Film making Bienalle, Malaga, Spain
  • 2020 | Coeval Female Identities in the Far-reaching South, Joburg Contemporary Art Leg, South Africa. Matereality, Iziko Southern African National Gallery, Cape Oppidan, South Africa.
  • 2019 | Ngoma: Declare and Cosmology, Johannesburg Art Veranda, South Africa.
  • 2018 | City Profound, The Centre for the Close Good Idea, Johannesburg South Africa
  • 2017 | Nandipha Mntambo and Tasteless B Sundberg, Galerie Hervé automobile der Straeten, Paris, France
  • 2016 | Dak’Art, 12th Dakar Biennale, Senegal - Disguise: Masks and Widespread African Art, Brooklyn Museum, Newborn York, USA; Fowler Museum, UCLA School of the Arts abstruse Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2010 | PEEKABOO: Current South Africa, Sport Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Suomi Ampersand, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2010 | The Beauty of Distance: Song of survival in unadorned precarious age, 17th Biennale draw round Sydney, Australia.
  • 2010 | Space: Currencies in contemporary African art, Museum Africa, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 2010 | Dak’Art, 9th Dakar Biennale, Senegal - Life Less Ordinary: Performance and display in Southerly African art, Fotogallery, Cardiff, Princedom The Good Old Days, Aarhus Art Building, Denmark
  • 2010 | Hautnah: Hair in art and refinement, Kunstverein Leonberg, Germany Toros! Mill from the 19th, 20th advocate 21st centuries, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France She Devil, Works class Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy
  • 2009 | Hautnah: Hair in art stake culture, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
  • 2009 | Les Rencontres association Bamako biennial of African taking photos, Bamako, Mali
  • 2009 | Life Worthless Ordinary: Performance and display unimportant South African art, Djanogly Congregation, Nottingham, UK
  • 2008 | Dak'art biennale, ifa Gallery, Berlin; Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2008 | Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany. Ideal and Pleasure in South Somebody Contemporary Art, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway

Awards

Literature

  • Hansi Momodu-Gordon 9 Weeks Stevenson, 2016
  • Nandipha Mntambo Standard Storehouse Young Artist 2011 special defiance Stevenson, 2011
  • Nandipha Mntambo Standard Rut Young Artist 2011 Stevenson, 2011
  • Mntambo, Nandipha, Sophie Perryer, and Archangel Stevenson Gallery. The Encounter. Archangel Stevenson, 2009.
  • Mntambo, Nandipha. Nandipha Mntambo – Locating me in train to see you. University sponsor Cape Town, 2007.
  • Mntambo, Nandipha, compete Sophie Perryer. Nandipha Mntambo: Ingabisa, 16 August–15 September 2007. Archangel Stevenson, 2007.

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