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Nelson Makamo (1982) is a young artist from South Africa who is inspired
by William Kentridge and the black neighbourhoods of Johannesburg, where he
wanders around sketching impressions. These charcoal sketches are worked out
and enlarged and although he is not afraid of adding a little colour to some
of his drawings, black remains the dominant colour in all of them.
His drawings are portraits with an active background and although Makamo
witnesses a lot of violence and misery, he is determined to show a different
picture of his country from the one portrayed by the media. It is not his
fear of commitment that makes him leave out the violence but his ambition to
free South Africa of prejudice.
The drawings in this exhibition are on loan from the iZArte gallery in
Zutphen which has a collection of drawings, sculpture, glass, ceramics and
jewellery, mainly from South Africa. All of the items are bought for a fair
price from the artists. The gallery also invites artists from South Africa
to come to the Netherlands to present their work to customers, organizations
and schools as a way of exchanging experiences, art and culture. For more
information: www.izarte.nl
The paintings currently hanging in the corridors and the library of the
African Studies Centre in the Pieter de la Court building, Wassenaarseweg
52, Leiden are all from the iZArte gallery. The exhibition is open weekdays
from 9:00–17:00 until 30 June 2009. Feel free to come and take a look!
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Untitled (€ 240) |
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Newspaper seller (€ 800) |
Voice of the city (€ 890) |
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