February News at Ebony Curated includes the line up of openings in Cape Town and Franschhoek, plus what’s lined up for the Investec Cape Town Art Fair.
Zemba Luzamba’s solo exhibition Totem on Wednesday, 1st February at 6pm at Ebony Curated, 67 Loop Street, Cape Town
“Zemba Luzamba is thinking about animals as they appear in fables and totems, the stories we tell to children for wisdom and
warning, and the sacred symbols that represent a unified group of people. With these in mind, this Congolese painter has created a body of work which uses figuration, fashion, and colour to explore the ways we assume and judge character. More playful than his highly politicised works, this new body of work lends itself to the spiritual with a deceptively childlike visual language that challenges the viewer to consider the complexity of identity.” – Khanyisile Mawhayi
Congolese painter Zemba Luzamba interrogates and satirizes social and political power structures in Africa. Born and raised in the DRC, Luzamba moved to South Africa to pursue his career as an artist. Luzamba’s artworks can be found in formidable public and private collections locally and internationally. This is the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Request Catalogue WHEN: Opening Wednesday, 1st February – 01.- 11.03.23 WHERE: 67 Loop Street, Cape Town
Richard Templeton Smith’s solo exhibition No Signal, No Message, No Secret opens on Saturday, 11th February at 11am at Bordeaux House, Franschhoek.
The human figure is a recurring subject in Richard Templeton Smith’s work. Throughout his career, Smith, who came to prominence in the late 1960s with his brilliant caricatures, has routinely depicted the figure, sometimes describing his human subjects with a great degree of fidelity and care, at other times wilfully exaggerating and deforming them. In this, his fifth solo exhibition titled ‘No Signal, No Message, No Secret’ at EBONY/CURATED, Franschhoek, the artist revisits the surreal, the humorous and the outlandish with his signature artistic vision.
Born in 1947, Smith has held over 50 solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Currently living in Spain, this South African/British artist remains an authentic voice questioning himself as an artist and us the viewer with his views on figurative and abstract modes of representation.
Request Catalogue WHEN: 11 – 31.03.23 WHERE: Bordeaux House, 4 Bordeaux Rd, Franschhoek.
February News at Ebony Curated includes their Line up for the Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF)
Ebony Curated Booth A14
Richard Butler Bowdon, Craig Cameron-Mackintosh, Ian Garrett, Wole Lagunju, Zemba Luzamba, Kimathi Mafafo, Anico Mostert, Rentia Retief, Richard Templeton Smith, Stanislaw Trzebinski, Vivian Van Der Merwe, Ismail Yilmaz
Hugh Byrne Booth A14
Ebony/Curated is delighted to present a solo booth by Hugh Byrne as part of SOLO: Time’s Labyrinth, curated by Sean O’Toole (Cape Town, South Africa).
Anico Upstairs
Ebony is hosting Anico Mostert as an ‘Artist in Residence’ at their Cape Town Gallery at 67 Loop Street. Visit daily between Monday 13th and Friday 17th of February 2023, until 7:30 pm on Gallery Night, where Anico will be working from a studio set up on the second floor of our Gallery space in Loop Street.
WHEN: 17 – 19 February 2023 WHERE: Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town 8001
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