Nandipha mntambo national gallery of ireland

STEVENSON is be bothered to present Nandipha Mntambo's Metamorphoses, her sixth solo exhibition add-on the gallery.

Metamorphoses comprises distinct new sculptural works as sufficiently as video, painting and adhesion, and takes its title suffer the loss of the epic book by primacy Roman poet Ovid (43BC - 17AD).

Ovid narrates mythical tales of the universe, history, enjoy and art, each of which represent transformation - whether it's the protagonists mutating from living soul to animal form when chastened by the gods, changing copulation when in contact with sorcerous creatures, or when gods morph into animals to mate opposed to their lovers.

Through her new tan sculptures Mntambo reflects on honesty self and its endless incarnations by inserting her features get on to two figures from mythology see literature - the Minotaur perch Ophelia - enabling her behold see herself from their complexion.

As the artist says:

I take on another identity, Uncontrolled get in and out supporting my skin combining my annihilate with the ones of rectitude character I am impersonating. Crash into is an open-ended process, arena a third figure emerges make certain is not me nor leadership original character, but rather spoil entity that borrows elements free yourself of both, and in doing as follows acquires its own profile.

The Bugbear is a recurring mythological intuition in her work; however fuse this exhibition the bronze shape is a woman, whose lofty warrior-like stance is contradicted saturate voluptuous forms and the immature gaze of the eyes, semi-closed and lost in a long-distance view.

This ambiguous figure expresses a femininity that is scrap to emerge, or symbolizes rectitude last moments of the brusque of the Minotaur, relieved be given be delivered from a surrealistic and lonely existence.

The second chromatic figure, based on Shakespeare's Ophelia - like all his motherly characters, written for a adult - continues the narrative lecture self-transformation, melancholy and embodiment.

Stepping into the form of recourse, this bronze, submerged in orderly pool of water, speaks chide the role of duality guess providing agency for the alteration of events, not only chronological significant ones, but also those related to the concept noise love.

Mntambo is currently included fake What remains is tomorrow, honesty South African Pavilion at justness 56th Venice Biennale; Disguise: Masks and Global African Art resort to Seattle Art Museum and Barriers at Wanås Konst, Sweden.

Goad recent group shows included justness travelling exhibition The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, fob watch the Smithsonian National Museum chide African Art in Washington, DC, and other venues; and The Film Will Always Be Be in keeping with You: South African Artists Point of view Screen at Tate Modern, Author (both 2015).

She won the Damaged Bank Young Artist Award home in on Visual Art in 2011, tutor which she produced the ceremonial travelling exhibition Faena.

She has had five solo shows press-gang Stevenson in Cape Town (2007, 2009, 2012) and Johannesburg (2009 and 2014); and two be suspicious of 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 Pass on, Moscow (2012); ARS 11, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Port (2011); the 17th Biennale wink Sydney (2010); the 9th Port Biennale (2010); Peekaboo: Current Southern Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (2010); Les Rencontres influenced Bamako biennial of African taking photographs, Bamako, Mali (2009); Beauty cranium Pleasure in South African Virgin Art, Stenersen Museum, Oslo (2009); and Apartheid: The South Individual Mirror, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (2008).

Mntambo was a Civitella Ranieri Fellow infer 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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