Posted on Monday, 8th October, 2007
The Johannesburg Art Gallery cordially invites you to
CYPRIAN MPHO SHILAKOE REVISITED
A Retrospective Exhibition
Opens: 10 October 2007 at 6:30 pm
Closes 31 January 2008
The Johannesburg Art Gallery is pleased to be hosting the exhibition Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe Revisited. This long-awaited retrospective of Shilakoe was curated by Jill Addleson for the Durban Art Gallery.
Despite the fact that Shilakoe died at the young age of 26 in 1972, he remains one of South Africa's most prolific and innovative printmakers.
Shilakoe received his art training at the Art and Craft Centre, Rorke's Drift, Natal. It was here that he studied the techniques of etching and aquatint under Azaria Mbatha.
In 1970 he began working in his own studio at a Lutheran Church near Roodeport, Gauteng. He worked closely with the South African printmaker Dan Rakgoathe.
Shilakoe's work was exhibited in a group exhibition of Rorke's Drift artists held at the Durban Art Gallery in 1968, in Sweden, Denmark, and the USA. It was shortly before his death in a car accident that he had begun to make sculptures in wood. He was posthumously awarded first prize for printmaking in an exhibition of African art at the University of California.
Exhibition Enquiries: Khwezi Gule (011) 725 3130 khwezig@joburg.org.za
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