Some of the great South African portrait artists you must need to know

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Some of the great South African portrait artists
you must need to know

• The contemporary art landscape of Africa is
  characterized by a versatile list of black South
  African artists, who understand and capture
  socio-economic realisms, political tests, dynamic
  traditions and varied beauty. Culture Trip
  curates both leading and emerging artists who
  continue to affect the growth of contemporary art
  in Africa.
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Tracey Rose

• Durban-born Tracey Rose is a noted contemporary
  multimedia artist and frank feminist, best known
  for her bold performances, video installations
  and attractive photographic works. Rose faces the
  politics of identity, including sexual, racial
  and gender-based themes, and often explores her
  multicultural ancestry. She competently mixes
  elements of popular culture with sociological
  theories to encourage potent displays of South
  Africas political and social landscape. Rose has
  held solo exhibitions in South Africa as well as
  Europe and America, and has taken part in a
  number of international events, including the
  Venice Biennale.

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Meschac Gaba

• One of the leading South African portrait
  artists, MeschacGaba bagged critical acclaim for
  his travelling exhibition, Museum of Contemporary
  African Art, inaugurated in 1997 at Amsterdams
  Rijksmuseum. Gabas extraordinary project
  consisted of 12 exhibition scenes, including
  Summer Collection Room, Museum Restaurant and
  Draft Room, set up across diverse European art
  institutions over five years in an attempt to
  place African art in front of global audiences.
  In 2013, the Tate Modern purchased and showcased
  Gabas entire museum, featuring paintings,
  ceramics and multimedia installations using
  materials such as paint, plywood, plaster, stones
  and decommissioned bank notes.

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Kudzanai Chiurai

• Thrown out from his native Zimbabwe after
  confidently producing an inflammatory image
  depicting Robert Mugabe, the countrys notorious
  leader, with horns and believed by flames in
  2009, KudzanaiChiurai now lives and works in
  Johannesburg. Chiurai was the first black
  recipient of a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the
  University of Pretoria, and has since become a
  major figure in the African contemporary art
  scene. Chiurai uses dramatic multimedia
  compositions to confront and challenge the most
  pressing issues in Southern African, from
  government corruption to violence, xenophobia and
  displacement. Chiurais work is brutally honest,
  tearing apart the status quo and challenging the
  state of African governments through a
  combination of digital photography, printing, and
  painting and, more recently, film.

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Nástio Mosquito

• Angolan multimedia and performance artist Nástio
  Mosquito trifles with African typecasts in
  Western contexts, working across the monarchies
  of music, video and spoken word. Often showed as
  the central figure in his video animations,
  Mosquitos creations make significant political
  and social declarations. Past exhibitions include
  9 Artists (2013) at the Walker Art Centre in
  Minneapolis, and Across the Board Politics of
  Representation (2012) at Tate Modern in London.
  Mosquito once said, I do represent, if you are
  willing, the army of the individuals, believing
  that art should not be generated separately, but
  should involve the community on a large basis.

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