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“Homage to Africa” is Sfiso’s Ka-Mkame’s prayer for Africa and her children. It is a message of hope, a layering of the complex realities that inform our daily lives. Realities that are both beautiful and tragic, what Ben Okri would define as the “enchantment of living”.  And hence as we see dance, we see murder, as we see love we see rape and as we see HIV/AIDS we see birth. The good, the bad, the Ying, the Yang, all contributing to our collective and personal stories and very existence.

LIVESTOCK, a collaboration between painter Arlene Amaler-Raviv and photographer Dale Yudelman was created in 2003 for the Eighth Havana Bienniel in Cuba.

The original installation of fourteen panels on cloth, each measuring 2x1m, were suspended from an intricate aluminium wire system. The series of works recollects the image of a row of flags outside an international symposium venue. In this case it is the New York Stock Exchange.

The Melrose Gallery, in association with Sandton City, is pleased to present ‘INTROSPECTION – Art of Contemporary Africa’, a thought-provoking group exhibition featuring established and emerging artists from the Continent of Africa.

Azibuyele Emasisweni, (Return to the Source) is the first solo exhibition of the renowned artist and Sangoma (spiritual healer) Pitika Ntuli to comprise solely of works sculpted from bone. Pitika uses bones to ‘divine the state of the nation in a season of anomie’.