The Gallery at Steyn City
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About Artist:
(b.1985 Tzaneen, South Africa)
“I’m working to find the inner part of the human being. So, I am stripping that person out...taking the clothes, the skin, the bones. I’m trying to see what can come out of this person. Then I rebuild. I call it the lust of the heart. It is never satisfied.”
– Blessing Ngobeni, 2019
Ngobeni is known for his distinctive style, created with layers of acrylic washes, exaggerated figures and collage, accompanied by unapologetic titles such as ‘Democracy is a Dust Bin’, or ‘A Study of Corruption’. He uses his expressionist paintings not only to overtly critique the current status quo, but to ask uncomfortable questions about the African’s experience of the world. His languages also draw inspiration from various movements, including Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism. He re-examines and re-imagines working ideas by artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Koloane and Pablo Picasso.
Ngobeni confronts his own experiences and challenges them in the often nightmarishly absurd and violent scenes of his paintings. These scenes, though brutal and honest, are also a display of the artist’s visual sensitivities to line, image and the power of colour
Blessing Ngobeni
Against Corruption II and III and Sitting on a ticking time bomb
- 0 x 0 cm
- Fine Art Category: paintings
- Medium: Mixed Media
- Origin: South Africa
- Certificate of Authenticity: yes
- Issued by: The Gallery at Steyn City
- Signed: Signed lower right
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- Price: $30,850.00 USD
- Seller: The Gallery at Steyn City, South Africa
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- Artplode ID: 6982
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About Artist:
(b.1985 Tzaneen, South Africa)
“I’m working to find the inner part of the human being. So, I am stripping that person out...taking the clothes, the skin, the bones. I’m trying to see what can come out of this person. Then I rebuild. I call it the lust of the heart. It is never satisfied.”
– Blessing Ngobeni, 2019
Ngobeni is known for his distinctive style, created with layers of acrylic washes, exaggerated figures and collage, accompanied by unapologetic titles such as ‘Democracy is a Dust Bin’, or ‘A Study of Corruption’. He uses his expressionist paintings not only to overtly critique the current status quo, but to ask uncomfortable questions about the African’s experience of the world. His languages also draw inspiration from various movements, including Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism. He re-examines and re-imagines working ideas by artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Koloane and Pablo Picasso.
Ngobeni confronts his own experiences and challenges them in the often nightmarishly absurd and violent scenes of his paintings. These scenes, though brutal and honest, are also a display of the artist’s visual sensitivities to line, image and the power of colour
