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    1) The artwork titled "isixeko segolide" by Ayanda Mabulu is a collage using acrylic paint, canvas, and found packaging materials that measures 1100mm x 1100mm and is framed. 2) The collage references the early history of Johannesburg during the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in the late 1800s through imagery and materials juxtaposed with modern influences. 3) The hand-painted motif of a young Xhosa warrior in ceremonial war paint represents the clash between tradition and modernity in South African society.

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    1) The artwork titled "isixeko segolide" by Ayanda Mabulu is a collage using acrylic paint, canvas, and found packaging materials that measures 1100mm x 1100mm and is framed. 2) The collage references the early history of Johannesburg during the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in the late 1800s through imagery and materials juxtaposed with modern influences. 3) The hand-painted motif of a young Xhosa warrior in ceremonial war paint represents the clash between tradition and modernity in South African society.

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    Ayanda Mabulu, 'Isixeko Segolide', 2017

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    Jase Strauss
    1) The artwork titled "isixeko segolide" by Ayanda Mabulu is a collage using acrylic paint, canvas, and found packaging materials that measures 1100mm x 1100mm and is framed. 2) The collage references the early history of Johannesburg during the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in the late 1800s through imagery and materials juxtaposed with modern influences. 3) The hand-painted motif of a young Xhosa warrior in ceremonial war paint represents the clash between tradition and modernity in South African society.

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    Ayanda Mabulu

    isixeko segolide
    isixeko segolide, 2017

    collage, acrylic paint,


    canvas and found
    packaging materials
    1100mm x 1100mm
    framed

    € 3700
    Background The title of Ayanda African fashion speak
    Mabulu’s new of the constant battle
    artwork is the Xhosa between the old and
    translation for one of the “new “ South Africa.
    Johannesburg’s oldest
    names “The city of In the same manner,
    Gold” the hand painted motif
    of the young Xhosa boy
    This artwork is a in full ceremonial war
    mixture of collage, paint also brins to mind
    tapestry and hand the clash of history
    painting. The collage and the present. Tribal
    elements reference culture in Southern
    the days of early Africa is far from
    Johannesburg forgotten but its place
    history during the in society is becoming
    Witwatersrand Gold more distant as time
    Rush in the late 1800’s. goes on.

    Juxtaposition of The Xhosa warrior


    historical imagery references mabulu’s
    with modern influnces own heritage and his
    such as construction potentially archaic anti-
    materials packaging capitalism stance.
    and contemporary
    Matthew Dean Dowdle
    +27 83 781 7406​⁠

    MJ Turpin
    +27 73 124 8183​⁠

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    Photographer:
    James Fox of FEYEK

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