Arts
Home coming through art with Zakes Mda─── 09:00 Thu, 23 Nov 2023
The centrepiece of Prof Zakes Mda's solo exhibition Always The Sun at William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberley is a celebration of his return to South Africa, following a long and illustrious academic career in America.
Chief Curator at the William Humphreys Art Gallery, Chepape Makgato, joins Yolanda Maartens in the OFM Art Beat to talk about this privilege to not only host the exhibition but also present various workshops together with Prof Zakes Mda.
The Kimberley community and the Northern Cape as a whole will gain from his stay at the museum, which aligns with his artist-in-residence program at WHAG. WHAG will announce the dates for some of the events that have been planned to make the most of Mda’s presence in the city.
A public lecture by him on Father Frans Claerhout (15 February 1919 – 4 July 2006), a Belgian painter who lived most of his adult life in South Africa, is one of the events that will take place.
Other events include a master class on creative writing called Write What You Don't Know and a panel discussion on the relationship between art and creative writing. Claerhout gave Mda a book in May 2000, and on the flyleaf, he painted a golden bird. Later on, he dedicated his fifth book, The Madonna of Excelsior, to Claerhout's painting of the golden bird.
Details here: https://whag.co.za/
Always the sun is on until 23 Jan 2024.
