A Journey Together

BODY MAPPING -session

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HIFA 2008 - our journet to ZIM

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A Visual Arts Journey with the Voyage Ensemble
>>> Cape Town, South Africa, 2008
>>>
>>> Initiated in 2006 by the Scalabrini Centre for refugees in Cape
>>> Town, South Africa, the Voyage Ensemble reflect on issues such as
>>> xenophobia and displacement through a series of visual art
>>> exhibitions that combine individual artworks and common imagery to
>>> create multi cultural Journeys.
>>>
>>> The Voyage Ensemble will present "Mapping cultural echoes" a
>>> Traveling Suitcase exhibition at the National Gallery for HIFA 2008
>>> in Harare, Zimbabwe.
>>>
>>> Supported by Pro Helvetia, the installation combines artworks with
>>> films and performance to interrogate the themes of Identity,
>>> Displacement, Boundaries and Human Trafficking. Two Swiss artists,
>>> Daniel Glazer and Magdalena Kunz will participate as Voyage guests
>>> artists and present "the talking heads"a new media installation. The
>>> Voyage Ensemble, a Journey Together will propose films shows and
>>> guided tours of the exhibition throughout the event and a series of
>>> workshops that envisage Visual Arts as a therapy for individuals and
>>> communities.
>>>
>>> Ultimately, the Voyage Ensemble Project seeks to celebrate a
>>> journeying together of both visual art and people that is not
>>> defined by borders and differences but by a broader understanding of
>>> a shared African visual imagery.
>>>

Artistically Brushing out Xenophobia in South Afrika

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this is not a Biennale -at the BLank Projects

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Something New

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New Season-OUR JOURNEY STILL TOGETHER

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Journeys to (G)-TOWN aka RHINI

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roots afrika article...

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new journeys ---BZE ARTISTS OF THE VOYAGEENSEMBLE

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Pics and Journeys...

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OPEN OPEN OPENING NIGHT...

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All is welcome all is invited- Ready for PRINT

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Voyage News

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Voyage Ensemble, a Journey Together

A Visual Art Exhibition that combines media and develop networks
between local and migrating African artists
to create a multi cultural Journey.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS :
Ruth Carnesson
Lizette Maria Eduardo Chirrime
Maurice Hermès Lubuela Mbikayi
Derix Raphael Ndongo
Everton Mbumba Nsumbu
Sophie Peters
Urban Clutch Collective
Zavick
Luzamba Musiri Zemba
Guest Artists :
Kathy Coates, David Jason Etherington, Stefan Fourie,
Khadija Heeger, Abdul Dube
Exhibition Curated by : Sylvie Groschatau-Phillips

Opening Night :
Wednesday 4th of April 2007
in conjunction with the Xcape Art Circuit
"Migration" Book launch
Poetry, films, music and food
from 18:00 till late
at the Scalabrini Centre
47, Commercial street, Cape town

at the Scalabrini Centre
47, Commercial street, Cape town
021 465 64 33

More Events :

Migration Week
Book launch

Voyage by Night : Film shows from 18:00:00 till 21:30 Thursday 12th of April Wednesday 18th of April

The exhibition will be open from 10:00 to 16:00
Monday to Friday

Closing 20th of April 2007

Sylvie Groschatau-Phillips, Curator : 076 788 40 38 teamage@mweb.co.za Miranda Madikane, Coordinator : 083 380 35 72 Scalabrini Centre, 47 Commercial street, Cape Town, South Africa +27 (021) 465 64 33

the supershop is coming

Im still, here just a little frozen...

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just on the northern side of the globe, something nu but the same afro fire is burning here.

our mission together

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VOYAGE ENSEMBLE II &
MIGRATION WEEK 2006 BOOK LAUNCH

The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, (SCCT) will launch a publication on the theme Migration to South Africa within International Migration Trends.

This publication, realised with a grant from the Foundation for Human Rights, collects the contribution presented in series of seminars at University of Cape Town, which culminated in a discussion led by a panel of experts during Migration Week 2006 (September 18-23).

Featuring academic and non-academic papers, this publication raises awareness about migration and refugees and it is a tool for the Scalabrini Centre to establish a network to permanently study and divulge issues pertaining to migration. The Scalabrini Centre is fund rising to realise another issue dedicated to Migration and the Labour Market and aims at publishing an issue every six month. This would provide a up to date material and a platform to stimulate debate.

OUR SPONSORS:

SCCT gratefully acknowledges the support of PH and IFAS, whose various active involvement in arts and cultural exchange in South Africa is a valuable contribution to the promotion and development of fine, liberal, and performance art in this country. For SCCT in particular, PH and IFAS' support and encouragement of positive interaction between South Africans and other Africans is most appreciated.

THE VOYAGE ENSEMBLE II
the journey continues
Flight from Fear, Voyage into Hope

Initiated by SCCT, the Voyage Ensemble is aimed at fostering relationships between refugee and local artists, and by so doing help to break down xenophobia and to introduce the displaced artists into South African art networks.

The Voyage Ensemble Exhibition reflects on the movement of African people and their cultures, and examines the political and social realities refugees find themselves in as a result of that movement. Ultimately however, it seeks to celebrate a journeying together of both visual art and people that is not defined by borders and differences, but by a broader understanding of a shared African visual imagery.

As an expression of the project's aims, a series of short movies and animations conceived, performed and directed by the artists has been created ensuring the artists work closely together and enabling them to gain insight into each other’s struggles.

Lithographer
RUTH CARNESSON

I want to tell a story
Using memories and fragments

To uncover hidden spaces

And sometimes shameful places

Using memories and fragments

Paying attention to small details

And shameful places

Of fragmented memories

Paying attention to small details

To build up a picture

Of fragmented memories

That is coherent and whole

To build a picture

To uncover hidden spaces

A picture coherent and whole

I want to tell a story

Canvas/Hessian Artist
LIZETTE MARIA EDUARDO CHIRRIME

Life is beautiful when we are positive and focus on beauty.

Beauty is eternal for it is real

When you complain about life or others

You complain about yourself !

The only way to better this world is to better yourself

Painter
MAURICE HERMÈS MBIKAYI

"Who can explain why an artwork well
accomplished causes major feelings in our being ?
if you do not try, no one can get them to you by reasoning..."

Chacun sa vie

Chacun sa langue.

Chacun son style.

Chacun son gout.

Chacun sa cuisine.

Chacun sa cuisine.

Chacun sa foi.

Chacun son amour.

Chacun ses eperances.

Chacun sa figure.

Chacun ses mots.

Chacun.......

Painter, Sculptor
DERIX RAPHAEL NDONGO

Life is a Journey. Because the journey is short, better have it in first class.

When you ask me where I come from, I don't know.
Because I have a dim memory of my nationality.
I am a human being. I am an artist

Painter
EVERTON MBUMBA NSUMBU

My horizon of painting is the way to offer to the world
a flower of peace for the past, the present and the future.

Painter, Sculptor, Graphic Artist
SOPHIE PETERS

My work speaks of Love and Joy

Love is a pain that a doctor can't heal

Nobody can give love : it is just God

You can't rubb it in

You can't rubb it off

You can't borrow love

You can't pay it off

You can't sell it

You can't buy it

You can't work to get love in, it must come natural

Love must be true

Love must be honest

Lending love to a friend could cost you more than friendship

It is wise to open your soul up to others' perspectives and consider all possibilities as long as you make your own decisions.

Love becomes cruel if it is forced and if untrue

Love is an endless road between trees and flowers.

Quiltage (fabric collage), conceptual,mix media
ZAVICK

Painter
LUZAMBA MUSIRI ZEMBA

We all come to see the works, but that is not for us to judge.

All we can judge is what we do with what is given to us.

A poor mind is the devil's workshop

A poor man is always frustrated.

Film-makers

URBAN CLUTCH, Taku and Siphiwe

Begin with an end in mind.

Guest Artists

Sculptor
DAVID JASON ETHERINGTON

I enjoy creating sculptures but this does not support me so I create work else where. At present I am project managing the construction of some sports fields (soccer/netball/softball) in a rural village. After completing this project I will be returning to my sangoma training where in-between work I will be creating some new pieces.

Sounding Out
KATHY COATES
in Collaboration with Voyage Ensemble and Good Hope Art Studio

Sounding Out: A sound installation by Kathy Coates in collaboration with artists from Voyage Ensemble with the purpose to produce an artwork which will harness skills and explore themes developed in the radio journalism course run at Multimediations, CAPE Africa Platform in 2006. Fragments of conversations collaged together through an editing process make the sound a reflection of the artworks or a complement of them. Themes include personal journeys, issues of xenophobia and displacement.

Animator, Illustrator and Graphic Artist
STEPHAN FOURIE

Stephan was born in Pretoria in 1984. He has lived most of his life in Stellenbosch, a beautiful town in the Western Cape and a hub of inspiration and creativity. Stephan recently completed a three year degree course in Graphic Design, Photography and Illustration at the Stellenbosch Academy of Graphic Design and Photography. He especially enjoys those moments when it seems as though his work comes to life and wants to move and communicate, and therefore he has developed a love for the art of animation. He is inspired by the early raw techniques of animation and tries to spend as much time away from the computer, experimenting with techniques like stop frame animation. His work was recently chosen to be exhibited at the Design Indaba as part of the emerging creative team, and it is through this exposure that he has been chosen to exhibit as a guest artist with the Voyage Ensemble Project.

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
Edgar Dégas

Photo-Artist
ABDUL DUBE

“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth
is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only
witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and
children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the
light goes out.” James Baldwin

Spoken Word

Khadija Heeger
, grown on the Cape Flats. My passions are around emancipation of the mind and the heart, understanding our reality, and that who we are is more than just this inherently biased system of classification into various categories. A system that 'others' is no system at all. A thought that 'others' is no thought at all. Essence is beyond blood and bone and skin, it is the breath, the sound within, the journey beyond borders into ourselves. We can create whatever we want. A world that has no victims."

Keep shining

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Visiting Artist:

Sculptor
DAVID JASON ETHERINGTON'S first wood craft sculpture was created in 1986 in Mtambalala Village near Port St Johns. He was inspired to create sculptures by a family friend who is a top British sculptor and teacher, and by an African sculptor who acted as a mentor. In 1991 he completed 10 driftwood and stone sculptures for an exhibition at the SA Embassy in Umthatha.

After arriving in Pondoland in 1986 David spent 3 years living in a rural village and was obliged to tend to daily chores (dipping cattle, herding goats, ploughing mealie fields, etc). From 1996 he created and ran a village-based tourist-hiking trail in Eastern Pondoland for 5 years. From 2001 to 2004 he worked on the E.U Wildcoast Tourist Development Project and wrote up all activities for the Coast Care Programme on the Wildcoast. From 2004 to 2006 he wrote up and managed a community indigenous nursery funded by D.E.A.T. Throughout this period he studied traditional plants remedies with a traditional herbalist from Magwa. As a trained herbalist he has a constant linkup and an ongoing relationship with local sangomas and herbalists. At present he has a rural homestead and a home in the township of Port St Johns.

Journey: David's life has been a constant ongoing journey. Through language he felt displaced, having to learn isiXhosa in order to communicate with the people of the village. With the information and education he was privileged to have he was able to help improve living conditions in some of these rural areas. Artists are often displaced just because they are artists in rural areas. Supporting new talented local artists is important to him.

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VOYAGE ENSEMBLE 47 commercial st

TRANSPORT SCHEDULE: ART CIRCUIT

Hop on and hop off service - do the Art Circuit in your own time*

Route A:
Start 5:30pm, Return every 30 minutes. Last lap at 8:30pm.
Scalabrini (47 Commercial Street)
Woodstock (The Old Biscuit Mill: 373 - 375 Albert Road)
CAPE Africa Platform (71 Buitengracht Street)

Route B:
Start 7:45 Return every 30 minutes. Last Lap at 9:45pm
Scalabrini Centre (47 Commercial Street)
Labia Cinema (Orange Street)
Zula Bar (194 Long Street)

*Participation in the Art Circuit is at own risk

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opening nite is on our doorstep.
ART CIRCUIT - is about to unleash art exhibtions.

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Voyage Ensemble a Journey Together
Flight from Fear, Voyage into Hope

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
-- John Lennon

An art exhibition initiated by Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town (SCCT) aimed at fostering relationships between refugee and local artists and by so doing break down xenophobia and introduce the displaced artists into the South African art network.

The Voyage Ensemble exhibition acts as a reflection on the movement of African people and their cultures. The exhibition, which hopes to be the first of many, will examine the theme of a journey, movement and change on the African continent and showcase the individual works of 12 visual artists : 6 South African artists together with 6 artists from Congo, Burundi and Mozambique who live and work in Cape Town.
Ultimately the Voyage Ensemble Project seeks to celebrate a journeying together of both visual art and people that is not defined by borders and differences but by a broader understanding of a shared African visual imagery.

The Works in Common
A studio is offered by the Scalabrini Center for the completion of the Works in Common that start ourJourney Together. Our Logo and a Mobile are being created.

The Curator
SYLVIE GROSCHATAU-PHILLIPS
is an artist, born in France and resident in South Africa since 1998. Batik, Ceramic, Mosaïc and Digital film are medium she masters. Her works have been exhibited in Cape Town and Paris over the last 10 years and two of her film documentaries have been featured at the museum of Modern Art in Paris, 2002 and 2003.

She was a founding member of the art collective, Malpit!: “a group of energetic artivists who shared and gathered their skills to create art events.” They created and organized 9 art events between 1999 and 2004 at different venues around Cape Town and most notably participated in the Cape Town City Festival and the SoftServe Exhibition at the National Gallery in 2000/1.

She lives and works in Oude Molen eco Village where she created and curates with her partner AnZu the Gallery, Op Die Hoek Art show room. Here, periodic art events are organized which include a network of local artists.

Her Batik works and animated movies were selected for an exhibition at the Alliance Française in Cape Town in February 2006.

She has been teaching the techniques of Mosaïc and Ceramics to children in schools around the Cape peninsula, specific needs children and to the patients of Valkenberg psychiatric hospital since 1999 as an Art Therapist. She created an Art Therapy studio on her premises - garden studios in the court yard of the historical Oude Molen manor house.

Her expertise and creativity make Sylvie Groschatau-Phillips a valuable partner for the conduct of this exhibition while her French makes her a link between the mostly francophone refugee artists who share her enthusiasm and are convinced about the opportunities such a project can create.

A group exists and is ready to show and combine works to create a multi cultural Journey!

If u wanna make contact please email us at
www.voyageensemble@gmail.com

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Painter,photographer
JOY NIKELO
born (1976) in Cape Town studied through the Arts and Media Access Centre (AMAC). She works with multi-media with a focus on painting. Her works were chosen to participate in the Women Spaces in the Visual Arts (2005) exhibition, which was an arts project between AMAC and the Wiks People’s College in Uppsala, Sweden. Her works focus on issues of tradition, ritual practice and social rules regarding women in Xhosa culture and is a call for women to question these practices and their place within them. The same exhibition was showcased at the Iziko Gallery, Annexe.

Painter
JULIE FELICITE LOUBELO was born in Congo Brazzaville. After finishing her University studies (1998), she attended the Art School (Ecole de Peinture de Poto Poto) which she completed in 2001. There she worked in a studio managed by master artist, NDINGA where she explored realism, surrealism and the abstract. She has exhibited at the Meridien Hotel, French Cultural Center, UNIC and the Town Hall of Brazzaville.

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Illustrator, Ceramicist, Fabric Art
JALIYAA (JANE) VERSFELD
was born and raised in the rural Eastern Cape, later graduating from UCT with a BA and HDE. She applies her experience as a language teacher / activist on the Cape Flats during the 1980s to her (self-taught) design and illustration of progressive educational materials on behalf of various NGOs and worker organisations, eg a poster tracing the land question in South Africa since 1652 for the Land Tribunal hosted by the Trust for Community Outreach and Education in 2003, and her work has been used in international debt cancellation and other campaigns. Pan-African culture/s; indigenous flora and fauna; gender issues; holistic health, and feminist spirituality are also important concerns reflected in her personal work, which ranges from cartoons to fabric art to ceramic sculpture. Exhibitions include: Black and White in INK (cartoons), in Durban (2002); Upfront and Personal: 3 decades of political graphics initiated by the British Council in association with Iziko Museums national tour (2003); The Memory Project (2005).

Photographer/Multi-Media Artist
Born (1978) and raised in Cape Town, Abdul Dube has always been drawn to picture making. Working first with techniques borrowed from print making and moving on to collage and mixed media, Dube sold his first works to his classmates at school. Dube does not have a formal art background and except for a short course in photography he is entirely self-taught. In 1998 Dube bought his first camera (Minolta Slr) with which he explored the idea of making pictures. Using himself as his first subject, Dube did a series of photographs exploring his own naked form using self-timer and shutter release cable. Dube now captures scenes from everyday life and explores the relationship between the body and environment while his works reflect different aspects of human nature. Actively involved in the community he volunteers two days of his week to the Phakamani project, and has for the past two year devoted time to create a Platform project called MOPP – Month of Peoples Photography, The exhibition has been featured at the Next wave festival in Melbourne 2006.

In a current interview art writer Jaroslav Kalac of Contempo Art magazine
Dube mentions ``With a country in transition, it is important to establish platforms to launch people young and old, taught and self taught, with opportunities in the arts. The more opportunities there are, the better; those who shine can further themselves. Social transformation, growth and opportunity are pillars of the collective. Success should not be measured by the amount of cash you make but by the difference you make to yourself and others. ``
<>Group showings: This is Cape Town (2002 & 2003) Street kid workshop exhibition (curator - 2003), MOPP with the Khamissa Kollektiv (2004/5), Next Wave festival Melbourne Australia 2006, AVA committee selection exhibition 2005. His work features on the web at these addresses> thedigitalartist.com / looklookmagazine / nativesoul.blogspot.com / tinyvices.com /Africancoffee.co.za >>>>>>

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Painter, Sculpture, Blacksmith, Animation and Glass blower
ANZU PHILLIPS
lives and works in Oude Molen eco village as an artist and designer in a diversity of media, since his arrival from Paris with his partner Sylvie Groschatau in 1998. They have established an unusual relationship between artist and neighbourhood with an emphasis on the living art and its use in healing, therapy and the breaking down of barriers as a silent force that merges the unknown with the unperceived. Anzu often chooses to re-cycle materials – creating from near decay and using the beauty of old scars. As a founding member of the Molen Malpitte Art Movement, Anzu worked with the group to create several exhibitions, most memorably the People Powered Entertainment Consol at Softserve in 2001. In 2004 in collaboration with Art & Squart Palais Tokyo Museum of Modern Art Paris, the Op Die Hoek Art Show rooms at his home in Oude Molen were opened. Since 2001 he has showed in: Pod of potential: YDETAG, National Gallery (2002); Neptunes Circus: V&A Waterfront; Modern Lighting Exhibition, Bauhaus, Rosebank; Exhibition of Lycramos luminos: Gallery Frederic du Luka, Paris; Art Action: Woosh Festival, Worcester; South African Glass Association Festival: Irma Stern museum; WAX exhibition in association with Sylvie Groschatau at the Alliance Francaise, Cape Town

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LIZETTE MARIA EDUARDO CHIRRIME
was born in Mozambique in 1973. In 2003 she felt the call, through her dreams, to an artistic life. The voice inside her specifically directed her to work with Cow Skin and Hessian.

She exhibited for the first time at the Ma Maf Festival at the Centro Cultural Franco Mozambicano on the 27 September 2003. Following this she entered the Envente Bolsa de Turismo competition for which her works won first place. Consequently she was offered her first solo exhibition, Metamorforse de saco at AMF, which in turn led to an invitation to participate in a collective exhibition, ARTE no Feminino (Women in Art) at the Museu Nacional de Arte in Maputo. This further exposure of her works resulted in an invitation to the Faira de Arte Contemporania in Portugal and to Nairobi as a representative of Mozambique for the British Council’s pan-African InterAction Networking Forum.

Her work speaks to everyone and carries the rich textures of Africa. Recently she completed a residency at the Greatmore Studios, which culminated in another solo exhibition and the Joao Ferreira Gallery in Cape Town presently has her works on display.

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LUZAMBA MUSIRI ZEMBA
was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1973, where he discovered a passion for drawing. At an early age he managed to convince his strict father to allow him to attend the Beaux Art Academy in DRC. After Matriculating in 1993 he went to live with his Uncle David Chibwe, one of Zambia’s best-loved artists who mentored him.

He received his diploma in Fine Art at the Evelyn Hone College of Applying Art and Commerce in Lusaka and participated in many group workshops and exhibitions there. Most notably, he was awarded the prize in painting and mixed media at the P.E.L. group in Lusaka during 1998. Zemba has been living in Cape Town since 2000 where he exhibits his works. Specifically at Alliance Francaise, V & A Waterfront, The South Africa Iziko Museum, The Cape Gallery and The Mount Nelson.

At The Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Zemba had a solo mixed media exhibition. The works were inspired by the tragic happenings in Eastern and Central Africa. For him art has no boundaries and will always rise up, in this case even in the conflict of war.

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EVERTON MBUMBA NSUMBU
was born in 1958 in Kinshasa (DRC). He received a certificate from the Academy of Fine Arts and did his Honors in Philosophy and Theology at the Grand Seminaries Saint Kaggwa. Since living in Cape Town, Everton works in Oil, Acrylic and Sand mediums and exhibits at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. He participated in Sessions of Poets against violence and war – Peace in Africa in Windhoek, Namibia in 2000 and exhibited in New York at the Unifications Media in 2001/2.

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Painter, Sculpture and Graphic Artist
Sophie Peters born in Johannesburg (1968) moved to Cape Town in 1985 when she was determined to study Art. Completing a two-year course at the Community Arts Project (CAP) in 1987, Sophie lives her Art, both as a teacher and a creative spirit. Although primarily a painter and an avid muralist, she also works in sculpture and graphic arts. She has attended a few residencies / workshops both in Europe and locally and held her first solo exhibition at the Association of Arts in Belleville (1994). Since then she has participated in numerous group showings mostly in South Africa but also all over Europe, the United States and Canada. Her works are included in collections of the South African National Gallery and in the Durban Art Gallery. She has received numerous commissions from parties such as The Robben Island Museum and JUTA for illustrations in children’s books (for these she received an award). After 18 years of living and working from her art the city itself carries her flavour and style, apparent in her numerous murals found in the urban landscape.

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Ndongo, the Mundombe styl’ Artist

I came into art by chance. I did not choose it, but it chooses me.
Designing my talent is the most valuable security I would have.”

Derix Raphael Ndongo has a vivid memory of where his talent comes from. His inspirational roots come from the watercolor paints given by his dad at the age of 3 years
The big moment came in 1996 when he started to design and paint images, banners, T-shirts, advertising boards and decoration
This self-taught artist decided to stop his Law university studies in 2000 to enroll the Fine Art College in order to test his artistic abilities. Successfully, he trusted his instinct and found himself marked as one of the new generation graphics and artists of Congo.

My artistic inspiration
After taking part in various art projects and exhibitions by the European Union, and supported by the French collector Eric Villepreux, Raphael realized three traveling expo with theme Mundombe( an African ). These expos express the value to the hard work and the daily life of the African woman.
My inspiration comes from the traditional human code of my family environment.

Derix sculptures or paintings are made of mixed media, fabric; paper, Hessian, raffia fibers, kauris-shells, cold glue, plaster and recycled materials. Real energetic artists enjoy experimenting new styles mixing modern and with traditional materials. His work is mostly realism and abstract
The simple but powerful creation comes to life by incorporating old cultural traditional elements, materials and objects to link the past, the present and the future
Raphael was invited by the Congolese ambassador in Pretoria for an exhibition. Since December 2003, he is experimenting new methods to reaffirm the originality of the African roots by using local and western materials. After his solo “Cultural Renaissance” at the Alliance Française of cape, follows “Racines” an exhibition that displays a wide spectrum of symbols and codes link to Congolese roots. It incorporates the use of modern style painting thru 3D drawings and real instruments of the traditions of the old society in modern style

Words
R A C I N E S…
Timeless African style
Useless of creating new African classics
Not abandoning traditional feelings
Ongoing madness of men and likeness
Not making you blind of deep down souls

They forgot to teach us this ideal
Essence and sense of life: to love…
The result of a pure and original source of inspiration
Do exactly what you want to do
Our single natural past
Our riches
Our roots
Yes..
OUR R A C I N E S…

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Zavick
was born in Vereeniging, near Johannesburg, in 1970.

2005 June Düsseldorf Art Meets Fashion ...Annette Görtz ...Germany
2005 Nov Top Billing Jeans art works
2006 Feb Milan Dondup Womens Colletion 2006 -2007

Artist Statement
"doing the best you can with the little opportunties that come along,
will get you futher than idly whishing for the big chance that may never arrive"
+27 (0)82 5566 808
www.zavick.com

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Maurice Lubuela Mbikayi
Maurice Lubuela Mbikayi was born in 1974 in Kinshasa /Zaire now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Maurice was passionate about drawing mixing colours. This came about as a result of imitating old masters’ artworks and anything interesting. As all other parents of the time in DRC, Maurice’s father opposed his son’s idea of becoming a professional artist. With very much insistence, Maurice managed to enrol himself in an art school.

After matriculating with success in fine art, he decided to pursue his artistic career instead of Polytechnics studies proposed by his father.

Finally Maurice joins up The Academie de Beaux Arts in Kinshasa, where he was influenced by some Congolese Artists like: Liyolo, Botembe , Lema… who are also well-known internationally for their unique style in modern art.

Maurice took also the opportunity to study ceramic .

The Artist participated at several exhibitions in Kinshasa. Maurice travelled to Brazzaville where he became deeply influenced by mixed media artworks and multicultural art. Because of the politic crises and warfare in his own country and Congo Brazzaville, the artist had no choice but to leave the Central Africa to South Africa, precisely in Cape Town where he is living since 2004. And he has exhibited at the Framery Art Gallery, Cape Gallery, Alliance Francaise( Picasso’s exhibition), Association of Visual Art (AVA) ( Portrait exhibition), and at Scalabrini Center.

Maurice has been actively involved in art and visual art organisations in South Africa; being member of “Voyage Ensemble” and VANSA (Visual Art Network South Africa).

2006-07-19T13:36:00.000+02:00

O
TOGETHER

Our First Collaberative Work. Babies and All.

2006-07-19T12:43:00.000+02:00

VOYAGE ENSEMBLE A JOURNEY TOGETHER

The Voyage Ensemble exhibition acts as a reflection on the movement of African people and their cultures. It is aimed at fostering relationships between refugee and local South African artists and by so doing break down xenophobia. This exhibition, which hopes to be the first of many, will examine the theme of a journey, movement and change on the African continent and showcase the individual works of 12 visual artists : 6 South African artists together with 6 artists from Congo, Burundi, Mozambique and Angola who live and work in Cape town.
Ultimately the Voyage Ensemble Project seeks to celebrate a journeying together of both visual art and people that is not defined by borders and differences but by a broader understanding of a shared African visual imagery.