Modzi art gallery @ ART FAIRS
Booth B02
Mwamba Chikwemba 
Born in 1992 in Kitwe, Zambia. Lives in Lusaka, Zambia. Mwamba Chikwemba is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, whose work draws on portraiture and figurative traditions. Influenced by artists such as Geoffrey Phiri, Agness Buya Yombwe, Frida Kahlo, Jenny Saville, and Wycliffe Mundopa, she transitioned from a background in public administration to train under the Visual Arts Council of Zambia. Mwamba has created public murals in Lusaka, Livingstone, Kampala, Antananarivo, and Johannesburg. She has completed residencies at Modzi Arts, Nafasi Art Space, and Greatmore Studios, and received the PUSH Women Award and the Cynthia Zukas Award as well as Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg for printmaking and lithography.
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Natasha Evans
Born in 1978 in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Lives in Lusaka, Zambia. Natasha Evans is a mixed media painter influenced by abstract and figurative movements, holding a BA in Illustration from Art Institute at Bournemouth. Inspired by artists such as Anni Albers, Diedrick Brackens, Mark Rothko, and William Kentridge, she layers paper, textiles, pigments, and found materials. Her assemblage explores fragmentation, belonging, metaphor, absence, extraction, and identity. Drawing from her physical, social, and cultural surroundings, she examines the shared human experience. Her work has been exhibited at the Revelation Biennial in Paris and is held in both private and institutional collections.
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FNB ART JOBURG 2024
Henry Tayali
Henry Nkole Tayali B. 22 November 1943 , D. 22 July 1987 was a Zambian fine artist, sculptor, printmaker, raconteur and lecturer. He has been described as Zambia's most famous abstract painter, and most revered and pre-eminent artist of his time. Tayali’s work looked into the Zambian social commentary and liberation movement of the 1950s.
Henry went on a photographic memory seizing the imperative of his country’s traditions in the late-1970s in the hope to create a Centre of Arts at the University. He produced a huge catalogue of photographs which he developed and recorded on slides within his dark room studio, his focused on capturing museum objects, witchcraft processes, ceremonies, design and architecture. GIF at the FNB Art Joburg a new section that is introduced by the fair is focused on photograph in Africa. We have the privilege unearthed work of Henry Tayali 1943 - 1987, a visual artist researching ancient traditions and contemporary African art within Zambia. Henry’ went on a photographic memory seizing the imperative of his country’s traditions in the late-1970s in the hope to create a Centre of Arts at the University. He produced a huge catalogue of photographs which he developed and recorded on slides within his dark room studio, his focused on capturing museum objects, witchcraft processes, ceremonies, design and architecture. *The Tayali Collection is founded by Rosemary Tayali, managed by Modzi Arts* |
Lawrence Yombwe
Lawrence Yombwe is an accomplished painter and one of Zambia's most prolific artists living in his time. Born in 1956 in Kalulushi, Zambia, he began his career as a self-taught artist, holding his first solo show at the Copperbelt Museum in 1979. He has since become a respected figure in the art world, known for his unique incorporation of Mbusa imagery in an idiosyncratic abstract style. He currently resides in Livingstone, Zambia, where he continues to create and inspire through his work at the Wayi Wayi Art Studio & Gallery.
Speaking about his work, Yombwe explains, "In my landscapes, the roads (foot paths) represent our existence, where we are going and where we are coming from. Although these foot paths remind me of the ones I used to take when I was a boy with my father on hunting trips, they speak of a long journey (life) with many bends that seem like they end from a distance but unfold as you approach them." Yombwe's contributions to the art world extend beyond his own creations. Alongside his wife, Agness Buya Yombwe, he founded the Wayi Wayi Art Studio & Gallery in Livingstone in 2007. As an art educator and mentor, he has significantly influenced Zambia's younger art scene, fostering a new generation of artists who continue to explore and celebrate their cultural heritage. |
FNB ART JOBURG | 8 TO 10 September 2023
FEATURED ARTIST | Banji Chona
Musyokwe | Ancestral Alter ral Alter
An exploration of the forest as an ancestral altar and a plane in which ancestors live on and commune. Leaves, soil, reeds, anthills and clay are her medium; the antennae to which we have to attune in order to open up to the messages of the guiding spirits.
An exploration of the forest as an ancestral altar and a plane in which ancestors live on and commune. Leaves, soil, reeds, anthills and clay are her medium; the antennae to which we have to attune in order to open up to the messages of the guiding spirits.
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FNB ART JOBURG | 2 TO 4 September 2022
FEATURED ARTIST | AARON SAMUEL MULENGA
A reflection process where we echo the ideas around ancestors, social comm and symptoms of a misrepresented system.
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