Maiden exhibition for Siphiwe Fokazi
In this exhibition, the featured work encapsulates ideas about artists trying to find their voices of expression.
The Springs Art Gallery presented the work of two local artists on Saturday afternoon with the exhibition titled Isibingelelo.
This is a Zulu word that means a greeting, a voice for greeting or a greeting voice used when someone arrives.
In this exhibition, the featured work encapsulates ideas about artists trying to find their voices of expression.
Siphiwe Fokazi, who has always been fascinated by images that represent a person’s identity, usually shows the face and how the world is represented through the eyes of others.
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Explaining his current work, Fokazi says: “My quest is in finding the essence of a person’s identity and balance outside all societal value systems.
“A person’s identity can easily be confused to what we see, which sets a tone in conclusion, while what we see is already in the past.
“Beliefs and emotions can shape some balance in a person and shine a bit of light on a person’s identity.”
The KwaThema-based artist says he is not afraid of letting people see inside him and opening himself up for criticism.
“It is really through interrogating one’s self that you can really know yourself.
“Others may look at your work and find areas of commonality and discover things they didn’t know about themselves,” says Fokazi.
The artist says the seven years he worked in the banking sector gave him the time to think about what it he wanted to do, and how best to express it.
Exhibiting alongside Fokazi was David Tsoka, who has loved art since he was five years old.
Tsoka, who also lives and works in KwaThema, is a talented artist who specialises in creating impressive paintings and prints depicting both abstract and cubist forms and enjoys tile work and painting on canvas.
Tsoka’s inspiration comes from artist Marco Cianfanelli, and says he likes the way he uses ordinary objects and materials like steel and razor wire to create images and public art.
For example, his Nelson Mandela Monumental sculpture portrait located near Howick in KwaZulu-Natal.
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These mediums both allow him to explore colour and technique and are limitless.
His works are visually bold and have high contrast to images, but also add a sophisticated ambiance to any collection.
As part of the exhibition, the exhibiting artists will conduct a free hands-on workshop on collage process art on March 28 from 8am to 12noon.
The exhibition will run until March 31.
The gallery is open Monday to Friday from 9am until 4pm and on Saturday from 8am until 12noon.
Entry is free.
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