Bonolo Kavula
Aphrodisiac,
2018
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Shoprite Flyers, Woodblock Print on Canvas
76 x 48,5 cm
Edition of 4*
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Edition Ref. Code: BP–04
Through her multi-step exploration of the print medium, young South African artist Bonolo Kavula exemplifies her distinctive style as a printmaker in the limited-edition artwork, ‘Aphrodisiac’. By creating a multi-coloured ‘canvas’ through adhering found advertisement leaflets from local grocery stores to fabric only to, in turn, print over them, Kavula plays with legibility and interrogates the possibilities of scale, surface, and alternative materials. The result continues Kavula’s artistic project of creating her own unique visual language. Divided into four equal-sized works, editions of ‘Aphrodisiac’ fragment the images and information underneath but maintain continuity in Kavula’s intervention.
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Bonolo Kavula was born in 1992 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. She graduated with a BFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town in 2014. Recent group exhibitions include PROOF (2018) and Shady Tactics (2018) at SMAC Gallery, Cape Town; Calibrating Wonder (2017) at SMITH Studio, Cape Town; iQhiya (2016) at the Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town; New Monuments (2016) at Commune1, Cape Town; Blank Lab | 3 881 Days (2016) and Furniture (2015) at Blank Projects, Cape Town.
In addition to her independent practice, Kavula is one of the founding members of the influential collective iQhiya, which was formed as an activist response to the lack of exhibition opportunity and under-representation of black female artists in the South African art world.
Kavula currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
Edition Ref. Code: BP–04
Bonolo Kavula was born in 1992 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. She graduated with a BFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town in 2014. Recent group exhibitions include PROOF (2018) and Shady Tactics (2018) at SMAC Gallery, Cape Town; Calibrating Wonder (2017) at SMITH Studio, Cape Town; iQhiya (2016) at the Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town; New Monuments (2016) at Commune1, Cape Town; Blank Lab | 3 881 Days (2016) and Furniture (2015) at Blank Projects, Cape Town. In addition to her independent practice, Kavula is one of the founding members of the influential collective iQhiya, which was formed as an activist response to the lack of exhibition opportunity and under-representation of black female artists in the South African art world. Kavula currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
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