The following is an extract from “Resistance Art” by Sue Williamson
Asked if he thinks art can change the way people look at things, Mandindi replies: “If people would try to understand what the artist is trying to say, they can be like kids who are trying to grow.” Mandindi is a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, a young artist with a deep commitment to his work. “I’ll only do art in my life, nothing but art,” he says “work about people, and what’s happening. At first, when I was thinking about art, I thought it was about drawing and all those things…. Then I suddenly became aware of what was happening around me and tried to capture that.
In our art, I think there was something missing. It’s still missing. Some of the things that happened years ago, the results are still coming now, so in my work, I am trying to go far back and mix it with what is happening now.”
Mandindi not only depicts contemporary issues, but frequently makes work, which gives a fresh perspective to an historical event. SCHOOLING
1979 -1994
(Standard 3-9) King Williams Town, Ciskei ART EDUCATION
1990
Hard Ground Printmakers member: exhibitions: collaboration
1989
Thupelo Workshop Johannesburg
1988-1989
Visual Arts Group workshops: exhibitions: mural painting
1987-1988
Michaelis School of Fine Art; University of Cape Town
1985-1986
Community Arts Project Woodstock Cape Town CAP
EXHIBITIONS
2014
Telling our story; group exhibition at The Cape Gallery
Talking about Cape Town, group exhibition at The Cape Gallery 2012
Siyakubona, group exhibition at The Cape Gallery
2005
Participated in the Group Show “Encompass” at the Cape Gallery
1994
Picturing our World (Western Cape) S A National Gallery
Black and White, a relief print exhibition at The British Council, Athlone
Relief in Black and White, group print exhibition, Brighton University, UK
Fresh Cream, group exhibition of Print Making at the Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg
Exhibition of Linocuts S A Arts, Cape Town (September)
Participated in the Urban Arts Foundation Sculpture Workshop
Invited to participate in the Africus Biennale, Johannesburg
Commissioned by Caltex to produce two linocuts
1990
Participated in the MOMA Exhibition, London
1989
Visual Arts Group Exhibition, UCT Centre for African Studies
The above exhibition was taken to the University of the Western Cape
1988
Images of the Western Cape – S A National Gallery
Palette of Oppression – group exhibition with Rodger Meintjies and Fuad Adams
1987
Peep Show S A National Gallery, Cape Town
Eye of the Artist – Gugulethu Township: Cape Town Foreshore
1986
Student work C A P
Works on paper, S A Association of ARTS Durban
Young Blood, S A Association of ARTS Cape Town
Tin and Wire, S A National Gallery, Cape Town.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
UNISA Art Collection
S A A A Durban
S A National Gallery
Thupelo Workshop Art Collection
Caltex Art Collection
PUBLICATIONS
Youth Express, Grass Roots
Art of the South African Township, G Young
Resistance Art, Sue Williamson
Book of Hope, David Phillips Publishers
New Art, Jane Taylor, David Bunn
North Western University America.
Art in South Africa , the future present, written by Sue Williamson Ashraf Jamal , Published by David Philip Cape Town. |
