Tswela Pele is an exhibition of selected works from the Art Bank of
South Africa’s first contemporary visual art collection purchased in the
2018/2019 year. It will run in the Durban Art Gallery from March 19 to May 12,
2019
The 60 artworks on show represent artists from seven provinces in South
Africa. The featured artworks explore a variety of themes from everyday experiences
and life patterns to the existential, from the male transculturalism to the
female response to social conditioning and examination of the patriarchal
cultural construct.
The Art Bank of South Africa is a national programme of the Department
of Arts and Culture as part of the Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE) strategy
implementation and is hosted by the National Museum Bloemfontein, an agency of
the Department of Arts and Culture. The vision of the Art Bank is to promote,
foster and stimulate a vibrant market for the collection of South African
contemporary visual art. The Art Bank of South Africa is tasked with purchasing
artworks from South African artists, particularly that of emerging artists in
order to lease and sell the artworks to South African government departments,
private companies and private individuals.
Durban Art Gallery is located at 2nd Floor, Durban Art Gallery and is
open to the Monday to Saturday: from 08h30 to 16h00, Sundays and Public
Holidays: 10h00 to 16h00 and is closed on Good Friday.
For more information contact Durban Art Gallery on 031 311 2264 or Jabu
Mngwengwe on email:Jabulile.Mngwengwe@durban.gov.za
For comments about the artbankSA, contact Nonto Sheryl Msomi on
artbank@nasmus.co.za or 051 447 9609.
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