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LIVESTOCK OVERVIEW - Bartering of cattle is the first recorded trade in Southern Africa. In traditional Africa the people were in control of their wealth and livestock. Cattle was their measure of wealth and status. The value of money today is determined byinternational economies and stock markets. Africa's future is a commodity on the international stock market.Each Southern african currency's intricate design, patterning and overlaid photographic images serve as a background for the painted mark. The original notes,worn and torn have passed through many hands,sharing memories and history of so many human lives.
Livestock - A collaboration between painter Arlene Amaler-Raviv and photographer Dale Yudelman, was created for the 8th Havana Biennale. From Cuba, the work travelled to the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, Norway and was then acquired by Standard Bank as part of their permanent art collection. The artists have produced a limited edition of forty portfolios, each comprising eleven works printed on Hahnemuhle paper using archival pigment inks. (edition of 40: 11 prints per set )
The Iconographic Jo'burg Man, who worked and built our city, the original, is super imposed onto the portait head of Jan Van Riebeck - founder of the Cape of Good Hope. Joburg man celebrates South Africa, carrying his bag of red roses - (tea in South Africa called Five Roses)
Source of the Zambizi river - source of life.It is young country symbolized by a young African boy looking straight into viewers eyes.The fish eagle is the call of the wild in the wilderness.
She blows the horn of Africa in the centre of the image. Below her is the symbol of weath of the nation - the cattle - the labola, their currency.
Contrast of opulence of diamond mining and politicians, business men and workers and the Himba Woman. Very dry land, difficult to farm agriculturally, symbolized by the dead end road sign in centre of painting.
A Zimbabwean $20 note , a loaf of bread is painted in oils. At the time this work was created, bread in Zimbabwe cost $20. Foreign exchange details are represented here from the year 2000.
Swaziland
The proud African woman carrying her baby and her baggage on her head stands on the exquisitely painted crown over the head of the king of Swaziland.
No more fish in the Sea in Mozambique.The politician and the children in the street.
The taxis - public transportation, the symbol of gold and the Lesotho blanket in the mid right of the image talk about Lesotho.larger image larger image
Angola
The black oil drips over this image, whilst the workers labor in search of oil.Once again contrast of the wealth of the oil industry and the workers' desperate for their meager pay for survival.
This aerial image of the brokers in their environment, the networking, the wires, the internal dynamics of the stock exchange, suggest to the artists the intestines of the cattle/ stock of Africa. Cattle, labola is the symbol of currency and wealth of our African nation
Traditionally self sufficient in agricultural production represented by woman grounding her maize. the boys rowing makora and working upon the lake is a symbol of prosperity.The lake nurtures the nation as is the image of the woman above grinding the maizelarger image
The Madiba Portrait
I worked for a year on a 140 x 140cm canvas to try to bring life to his face. I chose to select and 'zoom-in' to his face, the strength of his features, as a landscape; excluding the form and character of his head and hair, neck and shoulders and to zoom-in as a camera lens to the mood and character of the man. Using only the colours of the ANC and tones and tints of these colours in my palette, I painted this portrait.
madiba original 1.40 m x 1.40m sold to Spier exhibited at the spier conferance centre
" Nelson Madela print "
450 mm x 300 mm
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