Exhibition: Sculptures & Mbuno, from Feb. 10 2019 @ Red Hill Art Gallery

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Opening: February 10, 2019
Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery
Time: from 11 am – 5 pm

Sculptures & Mbuno
From traditional Makonde Sculptures – chameleon entwined Shetanis by Hossein Anangangola and grotesque creatures by Tanzanian Bernhard Pius & Mathias Nampoka – to the contemporary Giacometti like elongated and fragile female bodies of the late Makonde sculptor Simun Nyedi Dastani and his sons Boniface and Simon: the breast, the jar-head, the neck evolving into a snake, the long and frail legs, the clinching child – stylized elements as old and contemporary as ever.

From Zimbabwe’s first generation Shona sculptors Bernhard Matemera, Henry Munyarazi and Amali Maroba to a contemporary abstract stone sculpture by Tom Phiri, from Zambia

From the Kenyan master in wood sculptures Morris Foit to contemporary Kenyan sculptors Denis Muraguri and Gor Soudan.

A three dimensional presentation enriched by the archaic wax crayon paper drawings of Kivuthi Mbuno, his bizarre, hauntingly grotesque and almost surrealistic interpretation of nature, man and animal.

Art Fair/Art Sale by Kuona Artists Collective, Jan. 27 2019 @ the Alchemist Bar – Westlands

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Date: January 27, 2019
Venue: the Alchemist Bar, Westlands
Time: Noon – 7 pm
Entry: Free

The Kuona Artists Collective is hosting a superb art fair on Sunday, Jan 27th at the Alchemist Bar!

Whether you are an art lover, aspiring artist, or new to the collection scene, come visit and speak to some of the most talented and dedicated artists in Kenya!

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About Kuona Artists Collective
The artist community continues to celebrate Kuona Artists Collective! Founded in 1995, the Collective has been dedicated to the generation, presentation and promotion of innovative contemporary visual arts practice in Kenya.

Its artists’ studios, library, programme of exhibitions, artists’ talks, workshops and mentoring and international residencies have been instrumental in developing new and experimental contemporary art.

Exhibition: Aura by Olivia Pendergast, Jan. 26 – Feb. 2 2019 @ One Off Contemporary Gallery

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Opening: January 26, 2019
Venue: One Off Contemporary Gallery
Time: Noon to 5 pm

Until: February 2, 2019

We are delighted to host Olivia Pendergast’s exhibition, ‘a u r a’, as our first show of 2019. In this beautiful exhibition, each work literally emanates the emotion with which it was painted.

‘A u r a’ is dedicated to Jason Spindler and all those who lost their lives at 14 Riverside on 15.01.19.

Exhibition: The Narrative Painter by Joseph Cartoon, Dec. 9 2018 – Jan. 27 2019 @ Red Hill Art Gallery

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Dates: On Until January 27, 2019
Venue: Red Hill Art Gallery
Time: 11 am – 5 pm

About
Cartoon’s art is not conceptual, nor political. It is personal. He is a narrative painter, visualizing in his own distinctive way local values and culture, a perfect and idyllic world of a disappearing tradition.

Like a puzzle the viewer finds his/her way through the narrative. Entwined and twisted figures float, swirl and tumble across the picture plane, embedded in a multi-patterned, ornamental, fabric like background. The central figure is the caring female, who, in an ideal world, provides food and shelter for the family.

Joseph Cartoon was born in 1976 in Ngecha, Kenya.
In 1994, he joined the Banana Hill Art Group, an offspring of the Ngecha Artists’ Association.

In the 1990s, the Ngecha Artists’ Association was a group of young, self-taught artists, without academic or artistic education, founded by Sane Wadu, Wanju Brush and Chain Muhandi. The Banana Hill Art Group was led by the artist Shine Tani, who became Joseph Cartoon’s mentor.

Joseph Cartoon was a member of Banana Hill Art Group until 2001. He developed his own authentic, semi-abstract, ornamental, pattern-rich and colourful style of painting, featuring strong and powerful African women as his predominant subject.

Joseph Cartoon has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in East Africa, Europe and South Korea. In 2002, he participated in the Scholars Exhibition of the Royal Overseas League in London and was awarded a one-year Artist-in-Residency in the UK.

He returned to Kenya in 2003 and is living and working as a freelance artist in Banana Hill, just outside Nairobi.