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Sam Nhlengethwa Township Series 2005
In this series of fifteen prints, Sam Nhlengethwa has turned his focus onto the Townships of South Africa. Township life has been an important source of inspiration for Black South African artists since the early twenties. This work is best recalled in the paintings of Gerard Sekoto and later Durant Sihlali. The "Township Art " genre became discredited in the late seventies and eighties as artists jumped on the bandwagon and started to create work that was sentimental and unoriginal.
In this series of prints Sam Nhlengethwa tackles this tricky past and returns to the strength of the work that Sekoto and Sihlali mastered. Sam Nhlengethwa has travelled around the country observing life in both small and large townships. What he has discovered is that as much as things change they still remain the same. People continue to live in their communities and spend their days getting on with very ordinary tasks such as clothes washing, visiting the hair salon and gossiping. These are the images that Sam Nhlengethwa has focussed on and chosen to record, thus capturing the sense of life in South Africa's townships as we head towards the world cup in 2010. An idea that would have delighted Sekoto and Sihlali.
New Editions
Glimpses of the 50's and 60's prints
Jazz Prints
Interiors and Mine Trip Lithographs
Artists
Township Series, colour lithographs
Car Wash Eleven colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 50 Price: R 4 250
Postman Ten colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 50 Price: R 4 250
Sunday Ten colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 50 Price: R 4 250
Hair Salon Eight colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 50 Price: R 4 250
Gossiping Twelve colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 50 Price: R 4 250
Township Series, black and white lithographs
Fetching Water Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Cold Day at Manyatseng Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Dr Morare's Surgery Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Public Phones Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Sdudla (Big /Large) Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Friends Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Skorokoro (Scrap car) Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Going to Church Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Vegetable Bakkie Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Washing Day Single colour chine colle lithograph Paper size: 37 x 46 cms Image size: 23.5 x 33 cms Edition size: 30 Price: R 3 000
Sam Nhlengethwa's favorite printing technique

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