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1-54 New York

Past viewing_room
18 - 21 May 2023
  • AFRICA MODERN

      LULAMA WOLF AND MMANGALISO NZUZa

    IN DIALOGUE 

    1-54 New York 2023

    • Mmangaliso Nzuza The Man who Never Slept, 2023 150 x 150 cm Oil on canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      The Man who Never Slept, 2023
      150 x 150 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza I Can Still Recall, 2023 150 x 150 cm Oil on canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      I Can Still Recall, 2023
      150 x 150 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza Brown Noise, 2023 150 x 150 x 4.5 cm Oil on canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      Brown Noise, 2023
      150 x 150 x 4.5 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza The Community, 2023 150 x 150 x 4.5 cm Oil on canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      The Community, 2023
      150 x 150 x 4.5 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza Dance Away, 2023 120 x 100 cm Oil on Canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      Dance Away, 2023
      120 x 100 cm
      Oil on Canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza Till Sunrise, 2023 120 x 90 cm Oil on Canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      Till Sunrise, 2023
      120 x 90 cm
      Oil on Canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza In Contemplation, 2023 120 x 120 x 4.5 cm Oil on canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      In Contemplation, 2023
      120 x 120 x 4.5 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza Mumblings of Melancholy and Merriment, 2023 120 x 100 cm Oil on Canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      Mumblings of Melancholy and Merriment, 2023
      120 x 100 cm
      Oil on Canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza Living in the Healing, 2023 120 x 100 cm Oil on Canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      Living in the Healing, 2023
      120 x 100 cm
      Oil on Canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza A Fish Out of Water, 2023 120 x 100 x 4.5 cm Oil on canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      A Fish Out of Water, 2023
      120 x 100 x 4.5 cm
      Oil on canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza Watching and Waiting, 2023 120 x 100 cm Oil on Canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      Watching and Waiting, 2023
      120 x 100 cm
      Oil on Canvas
    • Mmangaliso Nzuza The Possibility of Change, 2023 120 x 100 cm Oil on Canvas
      Mmangaliso Nzuza
      The Possibility of Change, 2023
      120 x 100 cm
      Oil on Canvas
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    • Lulama Wolf Self Preservation, 2023 150 x 150 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      Self Preservation, 2023
      150 x 150 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
    • Lulama Wolf The Other Side of This, 2023 120 x 120 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      The Other Side of This, 2023
      120 x 120 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
    • Lulama Wolf The Overpowering Climax of Luminosity, 2023 120 x 120 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      The Overpowering Climax of Luminosity, 2023
      120 x 120 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
    • Lulama Wolf Dancing with Ayakha, 2023 120 x 150 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      Dancing with Ayakha, 2023
      120 x 150 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
    • Lulama Wolf Nomalizo, 2023 120 x 125 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      Nomalizo, 2023
      120 x 125 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
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    • Lulama Wolf Dedela Igazi, 2023 120 x 125 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      Dedela Igazi, 2023
      120 x 125 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
    • Lulama Wolf Hovering Around Sweetness, 2023 120 x 125 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      Hovering Around Sweetness, 2023
      120 x 125 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
    • Lulama Wolf Boselamose - Magic, 2023 150 x 150 cm Acrylic and sand on canvas
      Lulama Wolf
      Boselamose - Magic, 2023
      150 x 150 cm
      Acrylic and sand on canvas
  • About Mmangaliso Nzuza

    About Mmangaliso Nzuza

    Mmangaliso Nzuza (b.1998 in Empangeni, South Africa) is a self-taught painter currently living and working in Durban. In 2022, Nzuza completed a MA(Hons) in Government, Policy and Society at the University of Edinburgh before returning to South Africa to pursue art.
     
    Growing up in a conservative environment, Nzuza used artmaking as an outlet to negotiate a rich and complex interior life. Initially experimenting with pencil and charcoal, the artist eventually gravitated toward the depth and textural nuance afforded by oil painting.
     
    Led by his own embodied experience, Nzuza explores themes of anxiety, isolation and dissociation. Through the power of intentional colour and vivid form, the artist harnesses his practice as means to navigate the self and other. Working primarily with large-scale oil works, Nzuza has developed a distinctive visual language in rendering his subjects. The act of depicting a figure becomes a study in uncovering an imagined character; visceral texture, swathes of paint and loosely-rendered lines create lucid form and feeling. Nzuza’s figures, in their dulcet tones and abstractions, hum with a significant kinetic energy.
     
    Nzuza has taken part in group exhibitions including RE-KNEW-ED at The Gallery Society in Edinburgh and Sasol News Signatures: Art Beyond Imagination held at Pretoria Art Museum in South Africa. The artist is set to participate in numerous projects in the coming year.
  • About Lulama Wolf

    About Lulama Wolf

    Lulama Wolf (b. 1993) is a visual artist who lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

    At the intersection of Neo-Expressionism and Modern African Art, Wolf interrogates the pre-colonial African experience through the contemporary mind by using smearing, scraping, and deep pigment techniques that were used in vernacular architecture, and the patterns created largely by women to decorate traditional African homes.

    History and the proof of life are the core concepts in her work. Where there has rarely prior been reference of life in black spirituality, she counters that narrative by creating two dimensional paintings to embody the simplicity and deep spiritual power of the native eye. Her motivation is both tender and protective of her imaginary world, and her symbolic view of how her world looks into an alternate universe. She is set on creating both a photographic and graphic experience, that morphs and shapeshifts into a higher dimensional plane.

    "My work carries my spirit, before it carries a message. My intuition plays a vital role in the direction I go and then I compartmentalise with what I prioritise. I represent different parts of my self including abstraction, curiosity, mythology, spirituality and introspection. Blackness is vital in my work because it is created by a black woman despite the medium or language it speaks, it is vital because proof of existence is rare in the black community, information is shared but isn’t sustained in ways that are knowledgeable to us right now. I express my yearning for answers and clarity in ways that make my blackness clear even when the work is abstract. My practice embodies subtlety in a form of texture and expression, a curious mix of ambiguity and curiosity. I experiment with different textures and moulds that are formed from the earth."

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