Saturday, October 26, 2024

ISSEA Harare: Artists

Some of the Artists From ISSEA HARARE:

Epheas Mposa from Village Unhu


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Pearl Thompson
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Prudence Chimutuwah


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Nyasa Choga

Oksana Rakocha




Contemporary ISSEA Artists

AISJ: ARTIVIST artworks, Names available upon request.




ICS ARTIVIST artworks. Name available upon request




Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Don Ho Suh: Memories are his medium

 Don Ho Suh "Works across various media creating works that confront questions of home, physical space, displacement, memory, individuality, and collectivity" Read more from his Bio at Lehmann Maupin Art Gallery

"Home within a home within a home within a home" Installation at National Museum of Modern and contemporary art, Seoul, Korea 2013-2014

"Home Within A Home" 2019, Polyester and Stainless, Incheon International Airport, South Korea

"Home Within A Home" detail


"Passage/s" Installation, Umea University, Stockholm, 2017-2018

Scaled Behavior-runOn(Door-11.20.01), 2022, Polyester thread, resin, 286 x 137 x 18 cm
Staircase/s 2019, Thread embedded on handmade paper, 251 x 153cm


in his London Studio (photo by Nolwen Cifuentes NYT)

At Lehmann Maupin Art Gallery

Don Ho Sug on ART-21

His Instagram

Don Ho Suh ART 21

Sunday, August 25, 2024

Informing, Persuading, Provoking: Artivism part II

 Informing, Persuading, Provoking: Artivism part II

Kehinde Wiley:  "Positioning Black Men in the field of Power"

"We Love Peace" 2007,  Oil on Canvas 177 x 144inches
See  More of his work HERE


Zanele Muholi: Photographer, Her work focuses on race, gender, and sexuality documents South Africa's black, gay, transgender, and intersex communities
Bester I, Mayotte, 2015
Bester V, Mayotte, 2015

Read and See more at the links below

"In my world, Every human is Beautiful"


Emi Mahmoud: Poetry as a tool for Change

On Education At the United Nations

"A boy in the Sand"

"Mama"

Telling the Story of Darfur
More about her WORK HERE

Ai WeiWei: From Art21: "Human rights activist, provocateur, and dissident... infuses his work with political conviction, personal poetry making use of recognizable historic Chinese art forms in a critical examination of contemporary  Chinese political and social issues."  READ FULL bio at ART 21
"Forever Bicycles" at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

"BANG"
More of AiWeiWei's work on WikiArt

A photograph of Breonna Taylor (victim of police violence), projected onto the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee who fought for slavery, in Richmond Virginia.
The statue is one of the last two standing symbols of slavery. 
Full Article in the New York Times HERE (includes 24 other activist artists)



Andrea Bower's Rowhouse

Rick Lowe was making large-scal painting inspired by the poverty and inequality he saw around Houston's Third Ward, but then a student asked him "If you're and Artist, why don't you come up with a creative solution to the problem?"   Project Rowhouse was born, transforming old rowhouses into affordable housing and artist studios. 







Informing, Persuading, Provoking: Artivism

 Informing, Persuading, Provoking: Artivism

El Anatsui:  working from discarded materials, El Anatsui creates monumental sculptures that help reimagine our relationship with the environment and promotes responsible consumption.

"Metal Cloth" 2023 
162 x 162cm

"A Desire to Get Away" 2022   345 x 460cm







VIK MUNIZ: "WASTELAND" transforming the lives of the residents of a Brazilian waste dump.  
CLICK HERE for More images and details of the Process and how his work did or did not transform the lives of the residents. 

Votan Ik and NSRGNTS: Spreading Messages of indigenous rights in North America.



Interview with the Artist below



Shepard Fairey: "Manufacturing Quality Dissent Since 1989"