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Francina Ndimande is regarded as one of our most important traditional Ndebele artists. Each artist from the Ndebele group creates work that is very personal to them. Francina favours forms different from those of her fellow artist Esther Mahlangu. Her colour choice carries her towards more acid tones and her motives are more design like. Highly stylized figurative elements like staircases, airplanes, double storey houses, television antennas, electric lights and bulbs are regularly found in her work. These images are brought back from her frequent visits to the city and her overseas trips. '
Born 1940 in Weltevreden, South Africa.
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| Studies
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| She learned the skill of mural painting from her mother and grandmother.
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Exhibitions: (info. provided by
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| 2002
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Knysna Fine Art Gallery, Knysna
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| 1996
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Art from Africa, Copenhagen, Denmark
Africa Museum, Freinburg, Germany
XXIII. International Biennial of São Paulo
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| 1995
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Africus Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg
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| 1994
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AmaNdebele Colour Signals from South Africa, Stedelijk Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Hertogenbosch, Holland
Colour Signals from South Africa, Stuttgart, Germany
Frankfurt Bookfair, Frankfurt, Germany
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| 1993
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Signals of Colour from South Africa, Haus Der Culturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Permanent Mural, University of Maastricht, Science Department, Maastricht, Holland
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| Represented: |
Musée des Arts d'Afrique et Océanie, Paris, France
Bothabelo Museum, South Africa
Francina's work is also in numerous private collections in South Africa and abroad |
| Publications:
(info. provided by www.vgallery.co.za) |
Elliott, A. The Ndebele, Art and Culture
Angelou, M. and Courtney-Clarke, M. My Painted House, My friendly Chicken and Me
Duncan Clarke, D. African Art, Page 107
MAGNIN, A. & SOULILLOU, J., 1996. CONTEMPORARY
ART OF AFRICA. New York & London : Thames a
Hudson. ( ISBN 0-500-01713-1 )
Magubane, P. and Klopper, S. African Heritage, Arts and
Crafts, P. 41- 47, Cape Town : Struik. ( ISBN 1 86872 516 2 )
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