Alex’s Gom-Art mounts a solo online exhibition of Sifiso Gumede

Gom-Art, whose vision is to build a well-established gallery in Alexandra for other generations of artists and to start a printmaking school, held its first online exhibition of artwork by Sifiso Gumede.

Gumede’s solo exhibition opened online on 13 December and will run until 26 December, and every Saturday thereafter Gom-Art will host art and performance workshops for the public.

“By so doing we will be creating a dialogue that revolves around an exhibition narrative and in the workshop, the audience will be given paper and crayons to express themselves in art and also learn dance moves.

“The performance is a contemporary piece that will tell a story of dreams through physical movement and will be a collaboration between a visual artist and a dancer,” said Gumede, an Alex-born professional printmaker, artist, social and cultural entrepreneur, and one of the founders of Gom-Art.

The presentation is curated by Ivy Rihlampfu, the performance is done by Brian Mthembu and documented by Sipho Gwala, and is currently running at The Hub Precinct in Alex.

“The aim of this exhibition is to narrate stories that I experience in my dreams as part of human existence. By this I am referring to the ancient knowledge of our forbearers on the interpretation of dreams, which I then translate to my own personal meaning,” Gumede told Alex News.

He said the documentation of dreams was then transferred to painting, drawings, and sculpture. Gumede uses melanin structure, converting alphabets to numbers and mathematical symbols. This symbolism stands to uncover hidden meanings of dreams which are a catalyst to feed not only his curiosity but inform and give his personal account which in turn creates a dialogue, he explained.

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