KWAZULU-NATAL artist, Themba Shibase, will be showing his work at the Studio Gallery at Rhodes in Grahamstown during the National Arts Festival (NAF). – please see details below.
The exhibition is being hosted by the NAF and the SMAC Gallery daily from 9 am to 5 pm.
Shibase interrogates current political and social issues within a pan-African context. Concentrating primarily on painting, drawing and mixed media work on paper, he examines issues like leadership; post-colonial and ‘post-dictatorial’ power structures; masculinity and patriarchy as well as identity and gender politics.
Shibase also contemplates the complex challenges facing a young, aspirational generation that grapples with culture and heritage in a contemporary, rapidly changing world.
Presenting his subjects in a direct and confrontational manner, Shibase confronts stereotyping and notions
of an ‘authentic’ African culture, probing Africa’s fraught colonial history and the homogenising colonial gaze which continues to inform racial identities in Africa.
Born in Port Shepstone in 1980, Shibase is currently based in Durban. He completed his Master of Technology degree in Fine Art at the Durban University of Technology where he lectures in painting, drawing and art theory, whilst pursuing his PhD.
Over the past four or five years, Shibase has presented several solo exhibitions in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and more recently in New York.
He was a finalist for the MTN New Contemporaries Award in 2008 as well as the Spier Contemporary Award in 2007.
Recent group exhibitions include Harbouring Histories at the DUT Gallery (Durban University of Technology), Us at Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) and New Spell at David Krut, New York.
Please note that there was a slight mix up with the exhibition venue on the NAF website: Themba Shibase’s solo exhibition “Slightly Off Centre” will be on view at The Studio Gallery, Rhodes School of Fine Art, Somerset Street, Grahamstown from 2 – 12 July 2015, 9am to 5pm daily. He will also be conducting two walkabouts: Friday 3 July at 2pm and Saturday 4 July at 12pm. For more about Themba do visit his artist’s page on the SMAC website http://www.smacgallery.com/artist/themba-shibase/
Themba Shibase’s Defiant Youth (after Pemba’s No Work).
Themba Shibase’s Economically Empowered.
Themba Shibase’s Proud Soldier (after Pemba’s Soldier).
Themba Shibase’s Young Rebel – Young Devil.
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Please note that there was a slight mix up with the exhibition venue on the NAF website: Themba Shibase’s solo exhibition “Slightly Off Centre” will be on view at The Studio Gallery, Rhodes School of Fine Art, Somerset Street, Grahamstown from 2 – 12 July 2015, 9am to 5pm daily. He will also be conducting two walkabouts: Friday 3 July at 2pm and Saturday 4 July at 12pm. For more about Themba do visit his artist’s page on the SMAC website http://www.smacgallery.com/artist/themba-shibase/
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