#Esther Mahlangu

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BMW i5 Flow NOSTOKANA, 2024. The latest BMW Art Car combines colour-change technology developed by BMW with the artistic language of South African Ndebele artist Esther Mahlangu. In 1991, Mahlangu designed the 12th BMW Art Car, based on an E34 series BMW 525i – becoming the first woman and first African artist to do so. In the BMW i5 Flow NOSTOKANA, which is named after Mahlangu’s first son, sections of film that can be electronically animated are applied, with two strips each across the roof, bonnet and rear section, as well as the vehicle’s sides. The new car has been presented at the Frieze Los Angeles art fair

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Esther Mahlangu, Ndebele Abstract, 2019

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esther m 👑🪷💖🌍🌏🌎🌐✨💫

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-the- art car... plz

'91 '91 🎶

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sneaker doccie coming soon

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The legendary art master Esther Mahlangu at work on a joint project with Volkswagen 💪🏾💪🏾

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The BMW i5 Flow Nostok: A Revolution in Automotive Technology

The next step in art and automotive excellence is here

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BMW Art Car, Esther Mahlangu, 1991

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Esther Mahlangu - Ndebele dwelling, 2018 - Acrylic on canvas

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Thursday 11th April 2024

The first sight on opening the blinds this morning at 7.45 was the clear blue sky totally uninterrupted by cloud. The second noticeable thing was Table Mountain clearly peeping above the building in front of us. What's more there was no cloud covering any of it's 3558ft of solid granite rock. Looking good we thought to get to the top today. Originally named Hoerikwaggo by the San tribe, in time this became difficult to pronounce so after tables had been invented, António de Saldanha from Portugal climbed the mighty mountain in 1503 and because of it's uncanny likeness to a table named it Taboa do Cabo (Table of the Cape). Clearly this was also difficult for some, so it became Table Mountain as we know it today.

Having said all that, for the third day running the mountain was shut, this time due to very high winds.

Plan B. So we googled Art Galleries and found reference to South Africa National Gallery just a mile away, so best foot forward and all that. Our route seemed to take us from the now familiar Waterfront area out into the CBD and beyond to what began to morph into a very pleasing part of town. The buildings became colonial, Georgian and well, British. Off to our left was the grand stuccoed and palladian shape of the House of Parliament. Over to our right was the Cathedral of St.George where of course Archbishop Tutu had been in residence, and also contains the organ incidentally from St.Margarets London, moved there in 1909. Between these two buildings was the entrance to a stunning and quite fetching park, passing yet more stuccoed buildings and culminating with the National Gallery. These grounds formed an unexpected oasis of tranquility and occasionally, white squirrels. As the sun shone, we felt quite grateful the mountain was shut because we probably would not have found this hallowed place. The gardens were originally landscaped in 1652 to provide fresh vegetables to Dutch trading ships that harboured in Cape Town on navigating the Cape of Good Hope. The first Cape wine was produced in 1656 from vines planted in these gardens. Now laid out in partarre form with rose gardens it makes a truly lovely spot and we enjoyed a flat white and lunch within it's leafy confines. Autumn is on its way and gardeners were gathering leaves.

Very interesting art gallery. The curators struggle with achieving the right mix of African versus European art. The problem being that they have an awful lot of European/ British output and very little African. This balance made even worse by the years of apartheid when African art was very much disparaged. Thankfully one leading light in the indigenous department shines through; one Esther Mahlangu who despite lacking early on with confidence and encouragement stuck to her feather brush and produced a prolific output. Including painting her parents house (ie all of it, top to bottom) along with a Series 5 BMW! You try and stop her.

Tiring now we turned for the Waterfront again, popping into Avis Rental to remind them to hose down the charabanc for us tomorrow so that we can set forth on the next stage of our journey. We agreed they could deliver it to us at the apartment while they were about it.

Back to the apartment for dinner. Great day and it is still blowing a gale outside.

ps Also found a chunk of the Berlin Wall!

pps The whole town is swarming tonight with people celebrating the end of Ramadan. Not to feel outdone, we bought a halal sausage!

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Esther Mahlangu

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Esther Mahlangu's artistic style and cultural influence make her a unique artist. While it is difficult to find artists who share the exact combination of her distinctive Ndebele-inspired aesthetic and cultural context, there are artists whose work exhibits similarities or resonates with certain aspects of her art. Here are a few artists who explore themes of cultural heritage, vibrant colors, and geometric patterns, which may evoke a sense of affinity with Esther Mahlangu:

Nelson Mukhuba - A South African artist known for his colorful geometric patterns and contemporary interpretations of Venda culture.

Billie Zangewa - A South African artist who incorporates vibrant textiles, storytelling, and personal narratives to explore themes of identity and womanhood.

Firelei Báez - A Dominican-American artist whose work often involves intricate patterns, cultural references, and explorations of identity, memory, and history.

Wangechi Mutu - A Kenyan-American artist who combines collage, painting, and sculpture to explore themes of African identity, femininity, and cultural mythology.

El Anatsui - A Ghanaian sculptor renowned for his large-scale installations made from recycled materials, which resemble vibrant tapestries and evoke the traditions and history of West Africa.

Yinka Shonibare CBE - A British-Nigerian artist known for his use of African fabrics, vibrant colors, and historical references to explore themes of colonialism, globalization, and cultural identity.

While these artists may share certain resonances with Esther Mahlangu's work, it's important to note that each artist has their unique artistic voice and cultural context. They contribute to the rich diversity and ongoing dialogue within the contemporary art world, celebrating and exploring different aspects of cultural heritage, identity, and artistic expression.

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Esther Mahlangu, Untitled, 2008

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A Mooch in Mayfair

Walking through Burlington Arcade to get to Cork Street the Lalique Boutique display catches my eye. 

 James Turrell designs!  Wow!  

(I'm told they range in price from £21,000 to £36,000).

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Photorealism 1966 -1985 at Waddington Custot

Robert Betchie - '62 Chevy (1970)

Don Eddy - Private Parking III (1971)

From the Press Release:  Don Eddy said in an interview in 1972: “It raises the question of whether you are looking at an illusion of objects in space, or a representation of a flat piece of paper – a photograph – which is in turn a representation of things in space. The idea of being photographic or true to life doesn’t really interest me. It's the references between what we know, what we see, what we think we see and what’s there, between the surface of the canvas and the illusion in the canvas. Those are the real problems it seems to me.”

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Tom Howse 

at Gallerie Opdahl (Frieze 9 Cork Street)

Press Release:

Tom Howse, b. 1988 in Chester, UK.  Lives and works in London, UK.

With paintings as his medium, Tom Howse explores the borders between the real and the imaginary. Through visual confabulations of myths and folklore, the absurd and the known, Howse questions our seek for understanding. Derived from a need embedded across time, borders, and cultures, he investigates the desire for comprehension as it moves in and out of our consciousness. In his own quest, Howse works with figurative imagery where people, animals, and fables interact in familiar and unfamiliar environments. As scenes unfold through the window of a dining room, a swamp of prehistoric dimensions, or a cultivated landscape, Howse begins to distort and reconfigure the proposed logic of our expectations. By twisting the proportions, perspectives, and dimensions of the depicted, the known is extended into the realm of fantasy. Anchored in the principles of our accustomed line of thought, the unfolding narratives present the observer with an alternate space where the margins between the real and the imaginary begin to dissolve.

Tom Howse - P.I.G.E.O.N  2023

Tom Howse - And I am returned to the splendour and warmth of your love (2023) (Detail)

Tom Howse - The Ripple of your Memory Coruscate Across The Endless immensities of Solitude 2023 (Detail)

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IF IT CONCERNS US, IT CONCERNS YOU

Alfredo Jaar at Goodman Gallery

Installation artist/interventionist.

Searching for Africa in Life 1996/2022

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The Arrangement of Stars 

Sky Glabush -  at Stephen Friedman Gallery

From The Press release: Glabush’s practice subverts traditional painterly archetypes and presents landscape, still life and portraiture through an historic lens. Primarily figurative and often underpinned by abstraction, these large-scale, surreal paintings provide narratives as they shift in and out of focus. 

The artist uses a rigorous drawing practice and his paintings exist as a meeting point for different ideas

and approaches. “The architecture of the drawing is embedded in the materials,” Glabush says, “All the paintings have gone through this process of getting the structure up through the drawing, breaking it down and rebuilding it through colour.” The artist often mixes sand into paint to build texture and to erase but not conceal the labour in his work. This rich surface is a magnet on which bold pigments vibrate and infuse the artist’s works with a humming energy.

Estuary 2023 Gash-Gold-Vermillion 2023 

If the wild Bird could Speak 2023

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Where Two Rivers Meet

Dr. Esther Mahlangu -  at Almine Rech Gallery

From The Press release: Art was a calling from a very young age for the artist. Even when Mahlangu was too young to be painting walls — the exclusive privilege of married Ndebele women — she defied traditions and was eventually granted the freedom to continue. “At ten years old, she used to watch her mother and grandmother painting their house. Longing to join them, when they took a break from painting, she would try her luck without their knowledge. But when they returned, they scolded her telling her never to do that again as her lines were skewed. ‘Every single afternoon when they went to have a nap, I’d try to paint. I got into trouble every day until eventually they realized that in my heart I wanted to paint.’ Gradually her mother and grandmother granted her a small space at the back of the house to paint, with daily inspections, and as her artwork improved, she was allowed to paint the front of the house.”

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Episodes Far from Home

Tomokazu Matsuyama -  at Almine Rech Gallery

From The Press release: Colourful motifs crowd the dense, graphical surfaces of his works, forming garden vistas or intimate boudoirs. Their origins are eclectic: a luscious floral might be drawn from a print by 19th century British designer William Morris or from an Edo Period kimono. In a bed of plants from divergent climes, an empty Sapporo bottle and a Starburst wrapper lie like the detritus of globalisation. A portrait inspired by a photograph of French couturier Christian Dior, meanwhile, bears the golden flourishes of a counterfeit Hermes scarf that Matsuyama bought in New York’s garment district. Completed on dynamically shaped canvases, these paintings take their compositional cues from Grand Manner portraits or pastorals in the pre-modern European tradition, while their use of skewed perspectives and absence of shading recall the flat planes of Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e. Signifiers of East and West are willfully scrambled here, as are renditions of the ‘real’ and the ‘fake.’ In Matsuyama’s work, as with his own diasporic identity, such differences are shaky social constructions.

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Photographs

Phillips –  (London Auction 19 May 2023)

Mert and Marcus - Missy Running 2005  Phillips 19 May 2023

Phillips Ellen von Unworth - Your Turn, Rihanna (detail)2009

Phillips Irving Penn - Steinberg and nose mask, New York 1966

Rala Choi - A woman lying on the sofa 2018

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2 carros personalizados pela artista esther mahlangu

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El impresionante Art Car de BMW: el i5 que transforma su color

New Post has been published on https://testercar.com/el-impresionante-art-car-de-bmw-el-i5-que-transforma-su-color

El impresionante Art Car de BMW: el i5 que transforma su color

<div id="sec-inicio"> <div class="thumbimg" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal" data-src="https://www.autocasion.com/actualidad/noticias/image-551788"> <div class="thumbwrap"> <figure><picture><source media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/jpeg"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/jpeg"></source></source></picture></figure></div> <p><span class="icon icon-flechas-ampliar">Ampliar</span></p> </div> <div class="clearfix"> <p class="nomarg"> <a href="https://www.autocasion.com/actualidad/autor/antonio-corral" title="Entradas por ACD " class="author url fn" rel="author"> <img src="https://testercar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1709993876_788_¿Fin-a-los-coches-chinos-baratos-La-UE-dispuesta-a.jpg" width="60" height="60" alt="avatar ACD "/> ACD </a> <span><i class="icon icon-calendario"/> 24 de marzo, 2024</span> </p> </div> <p class="excerpt">La más reciente creación de BMW en su serie de Art Cars es el i5, un modelo que llama la atención por su capacidad de cambiar de color y su inspiración en otro Art Car de BMW, el 525i.</p> </div> <p><a href="https://www.autocasion.com/coches-segunda-mano/bmw-ocasion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">El Grupo BMW</a> ha presentado su más reciente Art Car, una unión entre arte y vanguardia. Bajo el nombre de <strong>BMW <a href="https://www.autocasion.com/marcas/bmw/serie-5-berlinas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">i5 Flow NOSTOKANA</a></strong>, este vehículo combina la innovadora tecnología de cambio de color de BMW con el estilo artístico de la artista sudafricana Esther Mahlangu.</p>

Este automóvil de exhibición cuenta con 1.349‌ secciones de película que ‌pueden controlarse de ⁢manera individual, lo‌ que permite al vehículo eléctrico de BMW mostrar animaciones ​luminosas al aplicar una carga eléctrica. Esto facilita la creación de los colores y diseños característicos del arte de Mahlangu en composiciones en constante cambio. Estas secciones se ‌encuentran en el ‍techo, capó, laterales y parte trasera del BMW i5 Flow NOSTOKANA.

Un automóvil BMW como una obra de arte