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The Everard Read Gallery, 6226 Victoria Wharf, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, is
hosting an exciting exhibition of works by artist Velaphi
Mazimba.
Velaphi Mazimba was born in 1959 in Dube Soweto. He had very little formal art training except for a
informal year under artist Dan Rakgoathe at the Mofolo Art School and a year at the Johannesburg Art Foundation under the late Bill Ainslie. It could well be the
combination of this training by two of South Africa's leading artists from different cultural backgrounds as well as his determination to succeed as an artist which inspired him to become one of South Africa's
best artists. In the last five years he has already exhibited in Northern Ireland, Toronto, Washington, Hong Kong and Atlanta.
His simple yet startling compositions are always immaculately conceived, painstakingly drafted and beautifully painted ; his palette fresh and crisp; his subjects, whether they be human portraits, nudes, fruit, trees, trees, stars, sun, moon , exude vitality, their essence captured. The works have a unique texture and he sometimes
works on wood and rusted metal. The larger works are monumental in size and show the artist's ability to think bigger than life.
Velapi's work has been taken up in various public, private and corporate collections.
Sanlam; Anglo American; National Art Museum, Frankfurt, Germany; N.B.S.;
Nedcor; African Museum, Johannesburg; Dallas Museum of Modern Art; South African
Breweries; SASOL; BMW South Africa are only but a few collections where
his work is included.
The Gallery can be contacted at +27 21 4184528 or mailed at
ctgallery@everard.co.za. The
exhibition will be continued in Johannesburg from the 20th of
December.
Text partially
taken from the exhibition catalogue.
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