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Sam Nhlengethwa, Glimpses of the 50's and 60's (2004)
Sam Nhlengethwa is one of South Africa's foremost artists. Born in 1955, he studied at Rorkes Drift and the Johannesburg Art Foundation. Sam Nhlengethwa was awarded the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year award in 1994, the year South Africa held its first democratic elections and freedom was won for all its people. He has successfully exhibited all over the world from Senegal to New York and Cologne. His work is largely figurative and he explores themes that are close to his heart such as the plight of mineworkers, jazz and the physical space of contemporary Africa.In his prints and paintings Sam Nhlengethwa uses overlays of techniques such as collage painting, drawing and photography. His fine sense of colour and form lend an abstract quality to his work.
Sam Nhlenegthwa has been included in many contemporary South African art publications and his work can be found in leading South African and International collections.
Artists Statement: "The title of this series is 'Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties'. I have chosen to work in the style to which I have become accustomed (collage) and to also explore my printing via the photogravure process. I think one of the reasons I like this process is that it has an element of collage in it, but the process is more physically involved and delicate. It entails digitising an initial collage and working through at least five plates before even considering the trial print to be used for the series.
I sourced material from the Drum magazine archives and I also looked through my own family albums. The use of my own archive was important because I wanted to reflect an intimacy and a familiarity that would make the images accessible. Looking through the albums I reminisced about growing up in my grandmother's house and how I always found the dining room with the wedding photograph so intriguing. I also recalled enjoying a softball match in Westonaria (a small mining community on the West Rand) amidst the many dompas and curfew laws. Today these images have now been revived in the music videos of Mafikizolo and the 'Stoned Cherry' fashion label. I think I'm lucky in the sense that I have used art as an outlet for the frustrations I encountered during this time. My visual expression through painting was therapeutic and has now been transformed into what I believe to be a historical retrospective". Sam Nhlengethwa 2004
A series of prints which are all the same size, printed by hand as colour photolithographs from pre-sensitised aluminium plates.
The first image shows what the prints look like positioned on the paper, the images following it focus on the image and have been photographed without the paper edge of the print
Artists
Township Series Liithographs 2005
New Editions
Title: While We Were Young (picture larger than the others to show more detail) Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Part Time Job II Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: A Tired Miner Medium: six colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Azikhwelwa Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Candlelit Studying Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Collegues Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Miners Showering Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: The Grinding Stone Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Near the Bus Stop Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Gumboot Dance Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Hard at Work I Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Hard at Work II Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Mbombela Medium: six colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Migrant Labourers Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Pay Day Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Pass Raid Medium: six colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Protests Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Humiliation Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Sharpeville Massacre Medium: six colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Skipping Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: The Coal Shed Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Stop it Verwoerd Medium: six colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: The End of Kofifi Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: The Shebeen Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: While We Were Young I Medium: six colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: While We Were Young II Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Part Time Job I Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Whites Only Area Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: Underground Medium: five colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Title: The Compounds Medium: four colour photo-lithograph Paper size: 49 x 38cm Image size: 20 x 28cm Edition size: 25 Price: R 4 200
Sam Nhlengethwa's Jazz Prints
Sam Nhlengthwa's Tributes and Mine Trip lithographs

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