2013

Cartaz - Nascido do Fogo

Exhibition of bronze sculptures resulting from a workshop on molding and bronze casting, accompanied by photos illustrating the different phases of the training.

Cartaz - colecção crescente 2013

The project “ Colecçao Crescente” (Growing Collection) was launched in 2011 and was inspired by the South African project “ The Creative Block”.

Participating artists are invited to work in a totally free and creative manner and to explore different styles on 18 x18 MDF panels, which are provided by Kulungwana.

The interest in the project has been growing and new artists have joined the initiative.

New talents as well as well known artists are participating in the 2013 edition of “Colecção Crescente”, with a participation of 70 artists.

The “ Colecção Crescente “ provides the art loving public with a possibility to star or expand their private collection by acquiring gradually original works.

21 March - 30 April

Cartaz - Texteis

Exhibition of the National School of Visual Arts

Resulting from a collaboration between Kulungwana and the National Scool of Visual Arts, the exhibition shows works of students of the course in Textiles. The works on show reflect the diversity of tecniques and professional competencies, such as tapestry, weaving, batik, dyeing, fashion and dressmaking.

09 May - 08 June
Xilunguini

Photo Exhibition by Grant Lee Neuenburg

XiLuNGuiNi is a word about language. It is the title given by Grant Lee Neuenburg to his showing photographic works from the series Guachenegrafia and Love Maputo shown together at the Kulungwana, Gallery. This exhibition is a contribution by Grant Lee Neuenburg to the evolving language of the photographic image. A language that is the contemporary, that is Maputo’s contemporary and surrounds everyone. It is expressed in close cropped details, incidents passed and not seen by most.

Grant Lee Neuenburg with unexpected framing photographs surfaces that have been rubbed, torn, scratched, rusted and rotted.

It becomes as a visual language of absorption, adaption, disfiguration and change. There is a look to the urban language of graffiti and marked walls as an amplification of nature’s process of patterning material decay.

These images are also memory embedded on surfaces such as the wooden painted surfaces of boats and they become images of the abstraction of time.

The images are rich and dense and ultimately autonomous, revealing a mystery that holds each image to us as we try to read the language of it.

13 June - 20 July 2013

Cartaz Processos

Processos is an exhibition of visual arts showing an installation which involves three works reflecting processes of individual creation.

The idea of the exhibition stems from an interest in researching the meanderings of contemporary artistic production. Processos intends to bring about new (mis) understandings of what it means to be an artist at present, by bringing together through creative processos of a group of contemporary artists living in Maputo and who work on installations.

Each artist was asked to create a work about his/her work, more concretely on the creative process of his/her artistic production.

Processos is the result of individual work by Berry Bickle, David Mbonzo and Jorge Dias in trying to materialize this challenge

25 July – 14 September 2013

BON VOYAGE

“Bon Voyage”

Solo Exhibition of Visual Art by Maimuna Adam

Maimuna Adam comes from a family of travelers considering the diversity of her family. The title of the exhibition “Bon Voyage” is inspired by stories of travelling that were told by family members. Through a variety of materials, the artist explores these stories and her artworks invite us to travel through worlds that have already existed and others that have been imagined.

Maimuna Adam is part of a younger generation of Mozambican artists, having completed a BA in Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2008. She lectured drawing at Instituto Superior de Artes e Cultura, at Machava, from 2010 to 2012.

19 September - 02 November, 2013
ANÓNIMOS

Solo exhibition of painting by Ulisses Oviedo

The exhibition “Anónimos” consists of twelve portraits (oil on cardboard) of anonymous people.

Ulisses Oviedo presents at this exhibition a form of painting which dates from prehistoric times, although few works have survived from then.

In ancient Rome, Greece, the medieval period and in the painting of the Renaissance, private portraits assumed a prominent role in society. Many innovations in the various forms of portraits developed over time and the painted portrait remained popular up until the age of photography.

The development of photography in the 19th Century had a significant effect on portraits. Since then many people turned to photographic studios to produce their portraits. By offering a cheap alternative, photography largely supplanted the portrait painting.

Portrait painting is still something made to order for governments, corporations, associations and individuals.

07 - 30 November
Cartaz - Tempo Real Time

“TempoRealTime” is the title of the exhibition presented by Kulungwana at the sixth edition of the FNB Johannesburg Art Fair, in September 2013. It was the first time a Mozambican gallery participated and represented national artists. The exhibition showed works of three of Mozambique´s most celebrated young photographers who have already been awarded prestigious international prizes: Mauro Pinto, Filipe Branquinho and Mário Macilau.

The theme of the exhibition is the city of Maputo as one of the great emerging cities in Africa. The images reveal an intimate and tender look, as well as uncomfortable situations of inequity and dignity of citizens and their professions, framed by the arquitectural heritage which represents the city of Maputo.

Kulungwana, following the great success at the Johannesburg Art Fair, now shows a part of the exhibition to the Maputo public.

05 - 19 December, 2013