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          Nozipho, 2024 - Terence Maluleke - ICTAF 2024 Generations
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          Terence Maluleke debuts at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2024 as part of Generations

          15 Feb 2024 (2 min) read

          Johannesburg-based painter Terence Maluleke's work was showcased as part of Generations, a new feature at ICTAF, where it was shown in conversation with historic tapestries and ceramics by artists from Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre, exhibited by Riaan Bolt Antiques.

          For ICTAF, Maluleke created an all-new body of work inspired by the narrativised landscapes and fantastical allegories in rare examples of work by Rorke’s Drift artists such as Ellna Xaba, Philda Majozi, Dorothy Sibiya, Gordan Mbatha, Ephraim Ziqubu and Elizabeth Mbatha.

          Born in 1995 in Soweto, Maluleke works in a predominantly figurative mode, creating stylised portraits and still-lives that explore contemporary Black urban experience. This is his first time exhibiting at ICTAF, following on from his solo presentation at Southern Guild Cape Town, Grace in Grand-Bassam, in November 2023. An accomplished visual developer in the field of animated film, he adopts a flattened pictorial language and vibrant approach to storytelling that has intriguing synergies with the tapestries and ceramics.

          Terence Maluleke ICTAF 2024 Generations
          Terence Maluleke ICTAF 2024 Generations
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          Natasha Becker and Amogelang Maledu, curators of Generations, trace the cross-generational conversation between the booths:

          “The cohort of Rorke’s Drift artists presented in this section surfaces how, through employing visual languages in weaving and ceramics, artists documented the country’s history of violence during apartheid. Employing mythological sensibilities found in African stories and folktales, the artists’ work is laden with magical realism. Meanwhile Maluleke’s approach to this section and his pairing with Rorke’s Drift is an honorary response to the art centre’s contribution to South African art. In these works, Maluleke engages with the history and memory of Rorke’s Drift, drawing on its landscape and the thematic concerns expressed in the works of its earlier artists. He presents these ideas through a personal lens, and his visual vernacular. He references the land, the art school’s evangelical founding, and the techniques, particularly weaving during the 1960s. Maluleke is very drawn to the narrativised landscapes in both the Rorke’s Drift tapestries and ceramics.”

          Maluleke and Rorke’s Drift are one of five pairings in this new section of the fair, which instigates dialogues between five pairs of artists at different stages of their careers. Becker and Maledu’s objective is for Generations to “encourage visitors to engage a relational way of seeing artists’ individual practices vis-à-vis their intersecting dialogues in mediums and material cultures, as well as common conceptual preoccupations”.