Exhibition showcases SA artists
The featured artworks explore a variety of themes.
TSWELA Pele an exhibition of selected works from the Art Bank of South Africa’s first contemporary visual art collection, purchased in the 2018/2019 year, opened at the Durban Art Gallery on Tuesday.
The 60 artworks on show represent artists from seven provinces in South Africa. The artworks explore a variety of themes from everyday experiences and life patterns to the existential, from the male transculturalism to the female response to social conditioning and examination of the patriarchal cultural construct.
“The vision of the Art Bank is to promote, foster and stimulate a vibrant market for the collection of South African contemporary visual art. Curating a definitive collection of contemporary South African visual art. Promoting financial sustainability for the artists and Art Bank of South Africa through the leasing of art and fostering an appreciation for contemporary art by making art accessible to the broader public in their workplaces and shared spaces.The main ideology behind the program is for it to be a stimulus for the visual arts economy by encouraging the formalization and circulation of resources of the sector which, it is hoped will lead to the sustainability of the contemporary South African visual artist’s livelihood,” said Nonto Sheryl Msomi, the Project Manager: Art Bank of South Africa.
The Art Bank of South Africa is tasked with purchasing artworks from South African artists, particularly that of emerging artists in order to lease and sell the artworks to South African government departments, private companies and private individuals.
Tswela Pele will be on show from19 March 2019 until 12 May.
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