Gonçalo Mabunda Mozambique, 1975
Apresentação
Gonçalo Mabunda (b. 1975, Maputo, Mozambique) was born two years before the commencing of the bloody Mozambican civil war that divided the region for over 15 years and would forever shape his home country and artistic career. Drawing on his country's collective memory and political history, Mabunda works with deactivated weapons retrieved from this long and terrible war, such as rockets, land mines, AK47s, amongst other objects. He then transforms these weapons and war-related materials into furniture or sculptures of anthropomorphic forms, like masks or figures. These masks and figures, - created as an allusion to the local traditional African art and dances - assume a remarkable modernist aesthetic comparable to the images produced by Braque or Picasso.
In the series of imposing Thrones, for which the artist is most famous, Mabunda critically and ironically reflects on his personal childhood experience amongst the violence of the civil war. By combining tribal symbols, artifacts traditionally associated with power, and the weapons used during the war, these Thrones bear solid political connotations and the notion of the transformative power of art.
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BEYOND BOUNDARIES
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(IM)MATERIALITY
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SPACES IN BETWEEN
Group Show: Old Palace 17 - 28 Maio 2019Installed in a palace in 'ruins' in downtown Lisbon, the exhibition aims to reinforce the participation of THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE at ARCO Lisboa 2019, whose focus will...Leia mais
Art Fairs
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ARCO Lisboa 2020
Group Show: Januário Jano, Patrick Bongoy, Pedro Pires, Nelo Teixeira, Gonçalo Mabunda, Luís Damião, and René Tavares 20 Maio - 14 Junho 2020For ARCO Art Fair 2020, This Is Not a White Cube presents a project connecting unreleased artworks by 7 contemporary artists from Angola, Mozambique, DRC,...Leia mais -
ARCO Lisboa 2019
Group Show: Cristiano Mangovo, Gonçalo Mabunda, and Patrick Bongoy 16 - 19 Maio 2019 -
Cape Town Art Fair 2019
Group Show: Cristiano Mangovo, Gonçalo Mabunda, and Nelo Teixeira 15 - 17 Fevereiro 2019 -
ARTISSIMA 2018
Group Show: Cristiano Mangovo, Gonçalo Mabunda, and Pedro Pires 2 - 4 Novembro 2018
Press
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Artists show collective performance at the Banco Económico gallery
Jornal O País, 28 Novembro 2019 -
Painting of eight countries in collective show
Mário Cohen, Jornal de Angola, 29 Novembro 2019 -
(IM)MATERIALITY Águeda's Art Centre
RTP, 8 Outubro 2022 -
(IM)MATERIALITY: NOT A MUSEUM receives international art exhibition
por VÁRIOS, VOU SAIR , 14 Agosto 2022 -
A arte africana está na moda e chegou à ARCOlisboa
Isabel Salema, Público, 16 Maio 2019 -
Águeda Arts Center hosts exhibition of more than 40 artists: a reflection on the materiality and immateriality
Comunidade Cultura e Arte, 26 Setembro 2022 -
Collective Exhibition: Intersections - Within the Global South
Juciria Rodrigues, Jornal Mercado, 2 Dezembro 2019 -
Gonçalo Mabunda | Weapons For Peace
Zahra Abba Omar, ARTAFRICA Magazine, 22 Agosto 2019 -
International Contemporary Art Exhibition will be in Lisbon starting May 26
Lusa e SIC Notícias, 16 Maio 2023 -
Investec Cape Town Art Fair'19: This is Not a White Cube
ART AFRICA, 13 Abril 2019 -
The freedom to make art in Portuguese
René Tavares & Gonçalo MabundaPúblico, 12 Fevereiro 2024 -
This Is NOT A White Cube e MOMO Gallery promovem exposição “Intersections – Within the Global South”
Jucíria Rodrigues, Jornal Vanguarda, 1 Janeiro 2020 -
TINAWC PRESENTS GROUP EXHIBITION "SPACES IN BETWEEN"
e-cultura, 5 Maio 2019
Vídeo
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BEYOND BOUNDARIES
VIDEO OF THE GROUP SHOW BY CRISTIANO MANGOVO, GONÇALO MABUNDA, LUÍS DAMIÃO, NELO TEIXEIRA, RÓMULO SANTA RITA, UÓLOFE GRIOT AND SAMUEL NNOROM 23 Janeiro 2024 -
Discourses de Decoloniality
24 June - 30 September 2020 23 Março 2023 -
PARAGONE: What's with mediums today?
Group Show 29 Junho 2023 -
Art can help to overcome the post-colonial Portugal-Africa stigmas
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(IM)MATERIALITY
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