MOSHEKWA LANGA
Rose Coloured Glasses

April 9 - May 9, 2009

Born in 1975, Moshekwa Langa is a native of South Africa currently residing in Amsterdam. He matriculated from the Max Stibbe Waldorf School Project, Pretoria in 1993 and was a participant at Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam in 1997-98.

Moshekwa Langa’s work, amongst many things, explores the poetic aspects of expatriation. He favors strategies of appropriation and fragmentation that reflect less a point of origin and more the instability that comes with a radical change of place. Poetry and politics, public and private exchange meaning freely in his art.

Moving in more than a single medium, Langa uses materials at his immediate disposal. His installations juxtapose any and all media. Photography, drawing, painting, collages and sculpture are employed strictly on an as needed basis. Incorporating rags and threads, books and maps, sticks and stones, debris and documents, the artist brings together potentially disparate social and physical worlds in ways which highlight the flexibility of identity.

Langa is a pioneer and flag-hoister of a new generation of black post-apartheid individualists promulgating an art not of ideology but ideas. Metaphorically rich, conceptually sophisticated and very aggressive, his work’s struggle site lies not in didactic political turf but in more ineluctable existential realms. As he has once commented: «…(my work) is about the dangerous potential of innocence, about artifice represented as reality, and the borderline between this and that, where one is neither fish nor fowl».
This is Moshekwa Langa’s second solo exhibition in Athens.

The gallery is open Monday- Friday 10:30 – 20:00. Saturday 12:00 – 16:00.