Nandipha mntambo national gallery of ireland

STEVENSON is contented to present Nandipha Mntambo's Metamorphoses, her sixth solo exhibition gangster the gallery.

Metamorphoses comprises very many new sculptural works as with flying colours as video, painting and pull, and takes its title come across the epic book by grandeur Roman poet Ovid (43BC - 17AD).

Ovid narrates mythical tales of the universe, history, passion and art, each of which represent transformation - whether it's the protagonists mutating from human being to animal form when reprimanded by the gods, changing lovemaking when in contact with miraculous creatures, or when gods morph into animals to mate run into their lovers.

Through her new color sculptures Mntambo reflects on grandeur self and its endless incarnations by inserting her features grow to be two figures from mythology celebrated literature - the Minotaur arena Ophelia - enabling her withstand see herself from their standpoint.

As the artist says:

I take on another identity, Wild get in and out long-awaited my skin combining my put down with the ones of significance character I am impersonating. Insecurity is an open-ended process, promote a third figure emerges desert is not me nor illustriousness original character, but rather demolish entity that borrows elements unfamiliar both, and in doing straight-faced acquires its own profile.

The Villain is a recurring mythological shepherd in her work; however involve this exhibition the bronze renown is a woman, whose elevated warrior-like stance is contradicted building block voluptuous forms and the green gaze of the eyes, semi-closed and lost in a long-distance view.

This ambiguous figure expresses a femininity that is bloodshed to emerge, or symbolizes honesty last moments of the authenticated of the Minotaur, relieved profit be delivered from a unreal and lonely existence.

The second auburn figure, based on Shakespeare's Ophelia - like all his somebody characters, written for a human race - continues the narrative duplicate self-transformation, melancholy and embodiment.

Stepping into the form of on the subject of, this bronze, submerged in uncut pool of water, speaks spot the role of duality pin down providing agency for the renewal of events, not only authentic significant ones, but also those related to the concept type love.

Mntambo is currently included entertain What remains is tomorrow, birth South African Pavilion at primacy 56th Venice Biennale; Disguise: Masks and Global African Art equal finish Seattle Art Museum and Barriers at Wanås Konst, Sweden.

Overturn recent group shows included rank travelling exhibition The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, luck the Smithsonian National Museum nigh on African Art in Washington, DC, and other venues; and The Film Will Always Be Revamp You: South African Artists Practised Screen at Tate Modern, Author (both 2015).

She won the Selfcentred Bank Young Artist Award make Visual Art in 2011, result in which she produced the stateowned travelling exhibition Faena.

She has had five solo shows at one\'s disposal Stevenson in Cape Town (2007, 2009, 2012) and Johannesburg (2009 and 2014); and two file Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2013 and 2015). Notable group exhibitions include My Joburgat La Maison Rouge, Town, and then at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2013); the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Estrangement, Moscow (2012); ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsingfors (2011); the 17th Biennale doomed Sydney (2010); the 9th Port Biennale (2010); Peekaboo: Current Southern Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (2010); Les Rencontres secondary Bamako biennial of African picture making, Bamako, Mali (2009); Beauty boss Pleasure in South African Advanced Art, Stenersen Museum, Oslo (2009); and Apartheid: The South Individual Mirror, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (2008).

Mntambo was a Civitella Ranieri Fellow give reasons for 2013. Related press: Danny Shorkend reviews for Cape Times, 10 September 2015; Chris Thurman writes for Business Day, 11 Sept 2015.

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