Mirror Mirror! SOUTH SOUTH VEZA - TROY MAKAZA WYCLIFFE MUNDOPA AMANDA MUSHATE GRESHAM TAPIWA NYAUDE HELEN TEEDE
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FIRST FLOOR GALLERY HARARE
Mirror Mirror!
SOUTH SOUTH VEZA
TROY MAKAZA
WYCLIFFE MUNDOPA
AMANDA MUSHATE
GRESHAM TAPIWA NYAUDE
HELEN TEEDE
Mirror Mirror! Troy Makaza Wyciiffe Mundopa Amanda Mushate Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude Helen Teede In Zimbabwe’s majority language ChiShona there is a concept of kufungisisa or ‘thinking too much’, a dubious condition. The pandemic lockdown has made a lot of space for self-reflection and kufungisisa for all of us. It has also made this space a global phenomenon. Mirror Mirror! then is a brief survey of the broadest spectrum of subjects that artists have had too much thinking time for in the oscillation between lockdown levels in Harare over the past few months. For Amanda Mushate and Troy Makaza it is the wonder and drama of new parenthood and prognosticating a new and better place for their children. For Helen Teede it is a dynamic reflections on reuniting with Zimbabwe and recalibrating her practice in the physical and the social and political space after three years of living and working in Venice for her Masters. For Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude, reflection is an act of turning the mirror on the hypocrisies and inadequacies of the powers that be and the crisis of words never matching the actions, desperately needed by the people. While for Wycliffe Mundopa it is the resolved understanding and plumbing the symphonic joys of life which happens whenever and however and the incredible human capacity for exuberance in any circumstance. Mirror Mirror! is presented in collaboration with South South Veza part of SOUTH SOUTH (www.south-south.art) an online community, an anthology and a resource for artists, galleries, curators and collectors invested in the Global South. The platform’s launch brings together more than fifty galleries from across five continents to present a more holistic world-view of contemporary art. SOUTH SOUTH VEZA will be a hybrid of a live selling event powered by auction technology and a peer-led Online Viewing Room (OVR). Valerie Kabov Curator
Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude Born 1988 Harare, Zimbabwe Lives and works in Harare Born and raised in Mbare, Harare and Zimbabwe’s most vibrant and notorious ghetto, Nyaude works against the sweeping identity, which has been defined for Zimbabweans by the voice of the state and domestic and international media. His images oscillated between guration, abstraction and hallucination, drawing from restless energy of hisneighbourhood and its youth, in a country, where more than 60% of the population is under the age of 26. Living on the edge between survival and chaos, has been a call to poetry, swinging between brutal and sentimental but almost invariably cynical and satirical. His gesturally rendered effigies of proverbs and poignant vernacular idioms, defy characterisation other than the bursting drive to attain human dignity and quality of life that frequently appears beyond the reach of dreams. Recent exhibitions include: •2020-2021 Level Mosi-oa-Tunya, First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls •2020 True Optimism, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China (Art Joburg, Prizm) •2020 Poetry of Rebels, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude - Song Yuanuyan, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China •2019 Night & Day - Day & Night - Mundopa/Nyaude, First Floor Gallery Harare/ GNYP gallery, Berlin •2019 Defying the Narratives, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, USA •2018 Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi - Sa Bassa Blanca Museum, Yannick & Ben Jokober Foundation, Mallorca, Spain •2018 Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial, New York, USA •2017 Mazino, First Floor Gallery Harare, Zimbabwe
Self - Reliance, 2021 Oil on canvas 90cm x 90cm
Joys of Self - Delusion, 2021 Oil and spray paint on canvas 200cm x 200cm
Mirror Mirror!, 2021 Oil and spray paint on canvas 186cm x 170cm
Nothing to See Here!, 2021 Oil on canvas 150cm x 120cm
Wycliffe Mundopa Born in 1987, Rusape, Zimbabwe Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe Having decided to devote his life to painting at the age of 15, Mundopa attended the National Gallery Zimbabwe Visual Arts Studios (2005-2007). Committed to bearing witness to the lives of the most vulnerable in his community, his works consistently speak to social and political upheavals of life in urban Zimbabwe. In this context, the lives of women in particular frame his practice and social commentary. Mundopa’s imagery is audacious and unapologetic, bridging vernacular visual metaphor or Harare street slang with classical genre painting compositions of Dutch masters and post-impressionistic verve in line and colour. His work is represented in private collections in U.S.A, Hong Kong, Kenya, Australia, France, the UK, Germany, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, Zimbabwe and Cameroon. Recent exhibitions include: •2020-2021 Level Mosi-oa-Tunya, First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls •2020 1001 Afternoons, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (in Prizm and Art Joburg) •2019 Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway •2018 Defying the Narrative, Ever Gold Projects(San Francisco, USA), •2018 Tomorrows/Today solo: Cape Town Art Fair with First Floor Gallery Harare (Cape Town, South Africa) •2017 Right at the Equator (Depart Foundation, Los Angeles, USA) •2017 Another Antipodes /urban axis (PS1 Art Space, Freemantle, Australia) •2017 Collaging the City at First Floor Gallery Harare (Harare, Zimbabwe,) •2016 VOLTA with First Floor Gallery Harare (New York) •2016 Flaunt, Africa New Wave Now at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts (New York)
For These Sins, 2021 Oil on canvas 210cm x 350cm
Bringing Home The Bacon, 2021 Oil on canvas 174cm x 246cm
Bringing Home The Bacon, 2021 Oil on canvas 174cm x 246cm
Helen Teede Born in 1988, Zimbabwe Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe Helen Teede (b.1988) is a visual artist from Zimbabwe, working primarily in painting. She has recently returned to Zimbabwe from Italy having completed her Masters in Visual Art at IUAV University of Venice with 110/110 and Honours. Her thesis, “Phenomenology of Painting as an Intersectional Medium” reflects on storytelling through painting as a medium that comprises ongoing formations, relying on situated knowledge and material thinking as ways of knowing that rejects ideas of total, objective knowledge, and embraces the importance of process, curiosity, failure and the acceptance of paradox. She has worked as an artist since 2013, after completing her BFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, joining First Floor Gallery Harare in 2015 and participating in numerous group exhibitions, including a survey of contemporary Zimbabwean painting at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art in 2018, a number of two person-shows, as well as five solo exhibitions locally and internationally. She currently lives in Harare, working as an artist and researcher with First Floor Gallery Harare. Recent Exhibitions • 2020-2021 Level Mosi-oa-Tunya, First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls •2019 Traffic Festival Delle Anime Gentili: San Lorenzo in Campo, Italy. •2019 Home Affairs, Daor Contemporary: Cape Town, South Africa •2019 The Harare Fauves, Alon Segev Gallery: Tel Aviv, Israel. •2019 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare: Cape Town, South Africa •2018 Without Breaking Anything, Matter Gallery, Toronto, Canada. •2018 Five Bobh. Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA), Cape Town. South Africa. •2018 FNB Joburg Art Fair. First Floor Gallery Harare, in Johannesburg, South Africa. •2018 Next Level. First Floor Gallery Harare, in Harare, Zimbabwe. •2018 Cape Town Art Fair. First Floor Gallery Harare, in Cape Town, South Africa.
The one world we all belong to, Part 1-4, 2021 Oil on canvas 45cm x 40cm
Edera, 2021 Oil on canvas 150cm x 130cm
The sweets of the year be doomed, 2021 Oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm
Ecosystems, 2021 Oil on canvas 200cm x 170cm
Troy Makaza Born in 1994, Harare, Zimbabwe Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe. Troy Makaza’s works woven from painted silicone strings and brushstrokes inhabit the space on either side of painting and sculpture. Threadlike spider webs, accented with bands and braids of bright colour silicone, are part of Makaza’s broader examination of the fluid and in-flux relationships between various social groups and classes in contemporary Zimbabwe, which intersect with politics, gender, power, history and land. These mutating and surreal shapes build powerful metaphors for cultural and personal interactions and bonds, where tradition, colonial past and contemporary power structures are forced into dynamic and often tense coexistence and co-evolution. Recent Exhibitions: •2020-2021 Level Mosi-oa-Tunya, First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls •2019 Welcome Home, Group Show, MACAAL Gallery, Marrakesh, Morocco •2019 Visceral Politics, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy •2019 Tomorrows/Today (winner) Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Cape Town, South Africa •2019 Kubatana, Kristin Hjellegjerde, Kunstlaboratorium, Norway •2018 Forever Neverland Solo, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, •2018 Next Level, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe Another Antipodes, •2017 PS Art Space, Fremantle, Australia •2017 FNB Joburg Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Johannesburg, South •2017 AKAA Paris, First Floor Gallery Harare, Paris, France
Dispatches from Zambesia, Part 2, 2021 Silicone infused with pigment 158cm x 180cm x 4cm
Dispatches from Zambesia, Part 2, 2021 Silicone infused with pigment 180cm x 166cm x 4cm
The Veneration of St Tura, Part 1, 2020 Silicone infused with pigment 62cm x 46cm x 2cm
The Veneration of St Tura, Part 4, 2020 Silicone infused with pigment 81cm x 54cm x 2cm
Amanda Shingirai Mushate Born 1995, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe Having completed her studies at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Arts Studio in 2016, Mushate has been a resident at Chinembiri Studios and working under the mentorship of Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude to develop a vibrant and unique personal vision and modes of expression. Like any young person, Mushate is preoccupied with finding her place and path in this world and negotiating the complexity of interpersonal relationships in that process. Drawing her inspiration from people around her but not wanting to be constrained by over figuration, she paints and sculpt her happiness and burdens, and the things that she takes time to visualize. The artwork is a way for me to write about a ‘future’ for me and for all individuals for them to never be overshadowed by negative influences that divert us to our true purpose in life.” Having only had her first solo exhibition in early 2018, Mushate is already attracting significant collector and critical attention in Zimbabwe and internationally. Recent Exhibitions: •2020-2021 Level Mosi-oa-Tunya, First Floor Gallery, Victoria Falls •2020 Tomorrows/Today, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe •2019 AKAA, First Floor Gallery Harare, France •2019 On A Clear Day You Can See A Future (Tauzeni/Mushate) First Floor Gallery Harare, •2019 Cape Town Art Fair, First Floor Gallery Harare, South Africa •2018 Harare Contemporary, Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya, •2018 Hupenyu (hwangu ndapedza dzidzo), First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe, •2017 Young Artist Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, •2016 Green Shoots, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
Ndinewe Pazvese - Making it up to you, 2021 Oil on canvas 125cm x 120cm
Mawunganidze - Unifier, 2021 Oil on canvas 201cm x 300cm
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