Nhlanhla Xaba, born 1960, South Africa Search this
Medium:
Mixed media prints in glue-bound volume
Dimensions:
H x W x D: 31.8 x 44 x 3.8 cm (12 1/2 x 17 5/16 x 1 1/2 in.)
Type:
Book and Manuscript
Geography:
South Africa
Date:
1997
Series:
6/30
Label Text:
This book was created at the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg. Twenty-two artists came together to produce a book that expressed their personal views of the creation myth. Each artist drew a male figure on one side of the paper and a female figure on the other. The drawings were then cut into three parts to accommodate three sections of the human body: (1) the head and neck, (2) the torso and (3) the legs. These pages were then assembled in a flip-book format, a version of a printer's "exquisite corpse," where body parts are produced by different participants and put together to form different configurations. The drawings in the book demonstrate the different approaches to a chosen theme and the unique drawing styles of each artist.
Pepe Abela (b. 1926), lithograph
Deborah Bell (b. 1957), drypoint on copper
Kim Berman (b. 1960), drypoint collograph on plastic
András Böröcz (b. 1956), etching
Keith Dietrich (b. 1950), plate lithograph
Gordon Gabashane (b. 1949), linocut
Carol Hofmeyr (b. 1950), etching
Basil Jones (b. 1917), chine collé photography
William Kentridge (b. 1955), drypoint on copper
David Koloane (b. 1938), relief print
Atta Kwami (b. 1956), Ghanaian: woodcut
Frank Ledimo (b. 1962), drypoint on copper
Simon Mthimkhulu (b. 1967), collograph
Sam Nthlengethwa (b. 1955), relief print
John Roome (b. 1951), woodcut
Ruth Sack (b. circa 1947), etching
Mmakgabo Sebedi (b. 1943), etching
Robbin Ami Silverberg (b. 1958), mixed media
Simon Stone (b. 1952), etching
Grace Tshikhuve (b. 1965), linocut
Diane Victor (b. 1964), etching
Nhlanhla Xaba (b. 1969), drypoint on plastic
Description:
Artist's book composed of mixed media prints in a glue-bound flip-book volume. Each drawing features a male and a female divided into three parts: head, torso and legs.
Exhibition History:
Artists’ Books and Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, September 16, 2015-September 11, 2016
Claiming Art / Reclaiming Space: Post Apartheid Art from South Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 21-September 26, 1999
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