Women to women, 2020

by Sfiso Ka-Mkame

Fine Art Drawings : oil, paper, pastel 100 x 70 cm

$4,298

One of the last works available by this artist

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Type

Unique work

Signature

Hand-signed by artist

Authenticity

Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery

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Medium

Fine Art Drawings: oil, paper, pastel

Dimensions cm inch

100 x 70 cm Height x Width x Depth

Framing

Not framed


Tags

Portrait

African artworks

Figurative

Status of Women

Homage

colorful

Yellow

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: South Africa

Ka-Mkame has a profound sense of empathy and respect for women which is regularly explored within his works. When Pissarra commented on this, Ka-Mkame confirmed that this is because of his ‘’Love for his mother’’. Love is a central and consistent theme in his works as expressed through depictions of couples, family, and the community. When Albie Sachs challenged artists to paint about love in the 1990’s, the New African Newspaper asked if he hadn’t seen Sfiso’s "Love Letters"? His "love letters" were hard hitting statements about political, social and economic injustices faced at the time.
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Sfiso Ka-Mkame, Women to women
Sfiso Ka-Mkame

Sfiso Ka-Mkame

South Africa  • 1963

Sfiso Ka-Mkame was born in Clermont, Durban in 1963. He studied art in the 80's and gained fame in 1988 when he sold his 'Letters to God' series of drawings to the South African National Gallery in Cape Town. In 1996 he held his first solo exhibition at the BAT Centre in Durban and has exhibited extensively since then.

Sfiso was active in the United Democratic Front (UDF) and his early work reflected the political conflict, daily struggles and hardships he witnessed around him.

His work has a decorative, stylized approach that resembles African textile, demonstrating nostalgia for African symbols; a quest that became more urgent and challenging for him after South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. This led to his search for symbols of an African identity beyond the confines of his own region and this is reflected in his paintings.

He builds up dense layers of colour with oil pastels and then scratches patterns into the pastel to create images, symbols and designs which are often mistaken for textile.

He usually titles his works and this provides the viewer with the beginning of the story or narrative that has inspired the work.

It is the African women resplendent in magnificently coloured and patterned gowns and the representation of the kings and queens of Africa in equal importance that currently dominates his artwork, reminding one of the work of artist Gustav Klimt.

Sfiso has participated in numerous exhibitions in Africa and internationally. His works grace many important public, private and corporate collections including most of South Africa's art museums and national galleries.


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