About
The Goodman Gallery was proud to host an exhibition of works by Sam Nhlengethwa. The opening was on the Thursday 19th February 2004 and closed the Saturday 13th March 2004 at 16h00.
Sam says that ‘This exhibition is a culmination of a thought that began 10 years ago. Perhaps on some subconscious level it is very fitting that parallel to this show is the year we celebrate 10 years of democracy. The title of this exhibition is ‘Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties’. I have chosen to work in the style to which I have become accustomed (collage) and to also explore my printing via the photogravure process. I think one of the reasons I like this process is that it has an element of collage in it, but the process is more physically involved and delicate. It entails digitizing an initial collage and working through at least five plates before even considering the trial print to be used for the series.
I sourced material from the Drum magazine archives and I also looked through my own family albums. The use of my own archive was important because I wanted to reflect an intimacy and a familiarity that would make the images accessible. Looking through the albums I reminisced about growing up in my grandmother’s house and how I always found the dining with the wedding photograph so intriguing. I also recalled enjoying a softball match in Westonaria (a small mining community on the West Rand) amidst the many dompas and curfew laws. Today these images have now been revived in the music videos of Mafikizolo and the ‘Stoned Cherry’ fashion label. I think I’m lucky in the sense that I have used art as an outlet for the frustrations I encountered during this time. My visual expression through painting was therapeutic and has now been transformed into what I believe to be a historical retrospective’.
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Sam Nhlengethwa 1966 VW Beetle, 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa A portrait of Tod Majikiza, 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Mrs Ngobeni (my mother in law), 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa News Time, 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Portrait of Miriam Makeba, 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Boss Boy, 2003 Collage and oil on paper 99 x 139cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa A Proud Couple, 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 60 x 45cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Enemies of the state , 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 120 x 150cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Otilia Ntshangase's Pass book and cover, 2003 Collage on paper 49 x 35cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Busking Near a Station, 2003 Woven Mohair (silk) and embroidery by Marguerite Stephens studio 240 x 192cm Edition of 3 <...
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Sam Nhlengethwa Miriam Makeba and SA Big Band , 2003 Collage and oil on paper 76 x 151cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa The Beer Hall, 2003 Collage and oil on paper 70 x 100cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Johannesburg Building Society, 2003 Collage on paper 23 x 77cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Busking near a station , 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 60 x 45cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Sentence, 2003 Collage on paper 35 x 56cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Stand Accused , 2003 Collage on paper 44 x 70cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Waiting for trial I, 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 34 x 55.6cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa The end of the shift, 2003 Collage on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Mr. and Mrs. Ngobeni (my in-laws), 2003 Collage on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa Beauty Queens , 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa The Flower girls, 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa The Jazz Festival, 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa My mom and my aunt , 2003 Collage and oil on canvas 45 x 60cm
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Sam Nhlengethwa The End of Kofifi, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Stop it Verwoed, 2004 Photolithograph 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Skipping, 2003 photolithograph 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa While we were young I, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa While we were young II, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa While we were young III, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Pay Day, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Hard at Work I, 2004 Photolithograph / Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Hard at Work II, 2004 Photolithograph / Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Humiliation, 2004 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Mbombela, 2004 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Pass Raid, 2004 Multi-Colour Photo Lithograph / Photolithograph 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Underground, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa A Tired Miner, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Compounds, 2004 Multi-Colour Photo Lithograph / Photolithograph 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Part-Time Job I, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Part Time Job II, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Azikhuwelwa, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Coal Shed, 2004 Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Protests, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Whites Only Area, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Migrant Labourers, 2004 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Sharpeville Massacre, 2004 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 30 x 50cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Gumboot Dance, 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Candlelit Studying, 2003Photolithograph Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Colleagues , 2003 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa Near the Bus Stop, 2004 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa The Shebeen, 2004 Photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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Sam Nhlengethwa The Grinding Stone, 2004 photolithograph 30 x 50 cm / 50 x 30cm Edition of 25
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