Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
12 Oct 2019 - 09 Nov 2019
Sam Nhlengethwa View of Transwerke from Constitution Hill 2019, Mixed media on canvas, Work: 95 x 115 cm Unique
On 12 October Goodman Gallery Johannesburg opens Joburg Selected, a new body of work by Sam Nhlengethwa which takes the artist’s relationship to the city’s built environment as its source of inspiration.
Despite living outside of the city to this day, Nhlengethwa has spent much of his life working in and around Joburg, occupying a workspace at the Bag Factory in Fordsburg for 25 years and more recently, a studio at August House in Doornfontein. With this new series, Nhelgethwa reflects on the sights and sounds he’s absorbed during this period, zeroing in on a series of buildings and places which for one reason or another occupy a place in his impression of the city.
Nhlegethwa will also be showing a new series of prints which form part of this body of work. These works add to the artist’s long history of printmaking, recently on display as part of a retrospective at the Wits Art Museum, titled Leeto, which was accompanied by a catalogue of the same name.
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