Online art show on the go
Namibians participating
StArt Art Gallery recently announced that Namibia is participating in the African Galleries Now online art show this year in collaboration with the African Art Galleries Association (AAGA) and the international art platform Artsy.The online art show began on 30 March and runs until Sunday. All the artists’ work can be viewed on Artsy's website.
The show is being presented for the third time this year and is a wonderful exhibition of some of the works of the 15 institutions that are members of AAGA and the artists they work with.
This year, the StArt Art Gallery presents works by Namibian artists Ismael Shivute, Elisia Nghidishange, Nicky Marais and Arno Hoth. Namibia's virtual stall can also be visited at artsy.net.
These four artists use various art mediums, but there is a shared expressive use of abstraction and symbolism. The artists create a visual vocabulary of their own.
Nghidishange's sculptures explore the human form and are created by combining sturdy steel anchors and soft, flexible materials carefully woven by the artist. Shivute's soapstone statues are intuitively cut by hand according to the natural contours of the stone. Marais's large paintings on canvas explore the relationship between corporeality and spirituality. In the creative process of his digital paintings, which he says stems from generations of knowledge and history, Hoth reflects on emotion, colour and form.