Southern Guild

NOW SHOWING: AN ORDER OF BEING Manyaku Mashilo

23.11.2023 - 25.01.2024

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NOW SHOWING: BLACK EXODUS: SUMMER DEPARTURE Oluseye

23.11.2023 - 25.01.2024

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COMING UP: Design Miami 2023 Group Show

05.12.2023 - 10.12.2023

COMING UP: Untitled Art 2023 Group Show

05.12.2023 - 10.12.2023

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Dec 4

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Southern Guild returns to @untitledartfairs in Miami tomorrow for the second consecutive year, with a focus on three artists: South African painters @jozuagerrard and @katlegotlabela, and Zimbabwean ceramic artist @xanthesomers.

Untitled Art takes place from 5-10 December at Ocean Drive and 12th Street, in Miami Beach, Florida.

Find us at Booth A8.

Shown here:
Xanthe Somers

‘The Grass Is Singing’, 2022
Glazed stoneware, garden hose, maize string
45. x 21. x 21. in.
115 x 54 x 54 cm

Image by @deniz_gps

#southernguild #untitledart2023 #artfair #miamibeach #miami #miamiartweek #xanthesomers #jozuagerrard #katlegotlabela #artfair #ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #ceramics #contemporaryceramics

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Nov 30

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Southern Guild returns to @designmiami next week with a presentation of functional and sculptural work by 11 designers and artists including @zizipo_poswa @andiledyalvane @heferporky @rich_mnisi @charles_haupt @adam_birch_sculpts @king.houndekpinkou @trzebinski_sculpture @jesse_ede @dokterandmisses and @justine.mahoney.

Design Miami takes place from 5-10 December at Convention Center Drive and 19th Street in Miami Beach.

Find us at Booth G/28

Shown here:
Rich Mnisi
‘Vutlhari II’ (Wisdom), 2023
Bronze, nylon, lighting components
59 x 53⅜ x 45. in
150 x 135.5 x 115.5 cm
Edition 1 of 5

#southernguild #designmiami #richmnisi #collectibledesign #functionalart

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Nov 29

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Through the creation of ‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’, @olu.seye sought to explore and honour everyday African ingenuity. He turned to the streets and villages he visited in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya and elsewhere to learn from and work alongside the artisans he met – hair braiders and barbers, cobblers, basket weavers, vulcanizers and rubber recyclers, horticulturists and welders.
His chosen materials – hair, rubber, cotton, cowrie shells and mirrors – are often a medium through which to reimagine the diasporic debris. “These are loaded materials that carry with them brutal histories of enslavement and colonial conquest, oppression and pillaging but are reclaimed anew as symbols of power, resilience and good omen. I like the tension of working with them, repositioning them to give new meaning and significance,” Oluseye notes.

‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’ is on view until 25 January 2024.

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Oluseye
‘Irukere for Ezi, my ride or die’, 2021
Rubber, synthetic hair, cowrie shells, found objects
86 x 19 x 4.5 cm

#oluseye #southernguild #irukere #blackatlantic #africandiasporaart #africandiaspora #foundobjectart #contemporaryart #artwork #art #artist #artexhibition #exhibition #artgallery

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Nov 27

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“The question in these textures is not ‘How did we get here?’ but ‘How will we survive here?’. ‘Here’ as in now, tomorrow, after, freedom – how will we be? We have all known to look to tomorrow in the pit of night before dawn breaks the sky’s surface. Abanye baye ngale, abanye ba wele - but today these textures ask: ‘So far, dear traveller, how have you found your way? How does it feel to be here, how will we know when we get there?’” - Julie Nxadi

‘An Order of Being’ by @manyaku_mash features a series of figurative paintings that dreams into being an expansive space for healing and self-determined presence.

‘An Order of Being’ is on show until 25 January 2024.

Shown here:
Manyaku Mashilo
‘somewhere in-between’, 2023
Acrylic, ink, red ochre on canvas
200 x 140 cm

#manyakumashilo #southernguild #painting #painter #artexhibition #exhibition #figurativeart #figurativepainting #dreams #liminal #selfhood #art #artwork #portrait #spiritual #spiritualart #healing #healingart #afrofuturist #afrofuturism

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Nov 24

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Congratulations to @olu.seye on last night’s opening of his wide-ranging solo exhibition, ‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’.

Spanning sculpture, installation and photography created over the past five years, the exhibition weaves the artist’s personal narrative, trans-Atlantic journeys and artistic evolution into a broader exploration of historical and contemporary Black life.

‘Black Exodus: Summer Departure’ is a journey to finding self and forging an artistic identity rooted in play, honesty, travel and research. Oluseye notes: “I am coming into self within this broader examination of Black ancestry, migration, spirituality, aesthetics and visual culture. What’s my journey within these larger, universal themes of Blackness? What is my contribution?”

#oluseye #southernguild #blackexodus #installation #sculpture #photography #exhibition #artexhibition #gallery #artgallery #africandiaspora #africandiasporaart #talismans #eminado

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Nov 24

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Congratulations to @manyaku_mash on the opening of her solo exhibition, ‘An Order of Being’.

The new body of figurative paintings navigate and construct an imaginative future realm. This abstracted plane – expansive in its capacity to heal, liberate and reinvent – is occupied by a collective of fluid, dreamlike figures.

‘An Order of Being’ resists singular compartmentalisation of the self and the cultural practices that have come to define and inform Mashilo’s unfolding sense of the world. Her subjects shapeshift between hybridised identities to welcome an alternative understanding of how a person comes into being. This future world does not repress or shame this complexity; it welcomes and holds expansive space for an evolving and indefinable multiplicity.

#manyakumashilo #southernguild #paintings #painter #artwork #exhibition #artexhibition #afrofuturism #afrofuturist #figurativepainting #dreams

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Nov 23

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The intricate line work of @manyaku_mash adorns the BMW 7 Series in the form of a custom-designed wrap the artist created for @bmwsouthafrica. Southern Guild commissioned Mashilo to translate her work into a multi-layered pattern for the vehicle, which is driven by gallery founders @mcgowantrevyn and @mcgowanjulian. The collaboration marks the artist’s solo exhibition, ‘An Order of Being’, opening this evening (running until 25 January 2024).

This short film takes us into Mashilo’s Cape Town studio, where she talks about her process and inspiration. This new series of figurative paintings navigates and constructs an imaginative future realm, expansive in its capacity to heal, liberate and reinvent.

Mashilo’s practice acts as a vehicle for sense-making; her canvases stand as liminal spaces for synthesising elements of her religious upbringing, ancestral heritage, both real and invented myth, folklore, science fiction, music and sourced archival photographic images. ‘An Order of Being’ is occupied by a collective of fluid, dreamlike figures, constituting a gentle confrontation with the multiplicity of the artist’s past, present and future facets of selfhood.

Cinematographer and editor: Bill Chen (New Perspective Pictures)
Producer: @erin_starr_
Original score: @keegansteenkamp
Sound mixing: @sidechainchad
Lighting: @leon_basler

#manyakumashilo #southernguild #bmwsouthafrica #linea #line #painting #drawing #bmw

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Nov 22

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One night inside the world of @rich_mnisi at CASA RICH. Hosted by Southern Guild, @bmwsouthafrica and @rich_mnisi in celebration of the designer’s upcoming solo exhibition in February 2024 and the local launch of the new BMW XM.

Thank you to @bmwsouthafrica for 6 years of unwavering support and the fleet of guest vehicles, @cavalliestate for the superlative wines, @gavinrajahevents for seamless organisation and the energy of our wonderful guests.

Photos by @nina_zimolong

#CASArich #richmnisi #southernguild #bmwsouthafrica #bmw #bmwxm #cavalliestate

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