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AFRICA FIRST X LYS CONTEMPORARY ART

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Africa First was founded by Serge Tiroche in 2017 as a platform to support and promote Contemporary Art from the continent. An active collector of African Contemporary art for over a decade, he decided to focus his private collecting and residency program on emerging artists from Africa and its diaspora. He partners with LyS Contemporary Art, a contemporary art platform, offering a range of curatorial services focused on emerging artists. The platform aims to maintain a close interface, a dialog to integrate passionate art lovers with the artists and the artworks, through programming that includes: PopUp exhibitions, art fairs and special events. Our values are reflected by our coup de coeur approach, investigating cultural change and following with dedication the evolution of society through contemporary art in diverse mediums.

Artists presented at AKAA 2022:
Prudence Chimutuwah, Tafadzwa Masudi, Abongile Sidzumo, Tafadzwa Tega

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Prudence Chimutuwah +

Prudence Chimutuwah is an emerging contemporary visual artist fascinated with collage. She is inspired by her gender and how it adapts to the ever changing socio-economic environment. She hopes for her work to narrate, describe and inform the audience on the evolving world of women in patriarchal societies. Prudence grew up in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe and was inspired by sculptors who worked from Chitungwiza Arts Center. She studied at the National Gallery Visual Arts School from 2009 – 2011. Stone sculpture seem to be a male dominated field and this perception became an obstacle to her for a season as she wanted to focus on sculpture. From 2015 Prudence found collage to be fascinating and she starts collecting material for recycling to produce her work. Prudence’s work is influenced by contemporary African fashion, text and symbols.

MAGIRAZI

2022

150 x 115 cm
Mixed media collage on canvas
© Prudence Chimutuwah
Courtesy Prudence Chimutuwah

8000€
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MAGIRAZI 1

2022

150 x 115 cm
Mixed media collage on canvas
© Prudence Chimutuwah
Courtesy Prudence Chimutuwah

8000€
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“ROKWE 1”

2022

180 x 90 cm
Mixed media collage on canvas
© Prudence Chimutuwah
Courtesy Prudence Chimutuwah

8000€
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“ROKWE 2”

2022

180 x 90 cm
Mixed media collage on canvas
© Prudence Chimutuwah
Courtesy Prudence Chimutuwah

8000€
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Tafadzwa Masudi +

Tafadzwa Masudi (b. 1988) started painting at an early age in Harare while assisting a family friend who introduced him to the visual arts. In 2010 he moved to South Africa and started working in a clothing factory until 2020 when he waslaid off. He took the opportunity to start painting full-time and soon his work featured in group exhibitions at galleries in Cape Town. “Circumstances forced me to leave my country of birth and become a migrant. I relate to people who had to travel elsewhere to create a better life and this is what I currently paint. Images that show their sense of self, their dreams and their aspirations.” His brightly coloured paintings depict scenes filled with balloons, people and patterns. Observed through the lens of a migrant person existing in a foreign land, the works reflect on optimism and the pursuit of a better futu

Enchanted Bliss

2022

100 x 100 cm
Painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
© WORLDART
Courtesy Tafadzwa Masudi

4500€
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Gafa harisi mbavha

2022

130 x 120 cm
Painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
© WORLDART
Courtesy Tafadzwa Masudi

5000€
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Godobori

130 x 120 cm
Painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
© WORLDART
Courtesy Tafadzwa Masudi

5500€
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Ndafunga Kumba

2022

130 x 120 cm
Painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
© WORLDART
Courtesy Tafadzwa Masudi

5500€
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Ngwaririai

2022

130 x 120 cm
Painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
© WORLDART
Courtesy Tafadzwa Masudi

5500€
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Sinikiwe

2022

130 x 120 cm
Painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
© WORLDART
Courtesy Tafadzwa Masudi

5000€
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Abongile Sidzumo +

B. 1991 in Cape Town, where he currently lives and works. He completed his degree in Fine Arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts in 2019. Abongile Sidzumo is an independent artist. Sidzumo works with leather offcuts and repurposed materials to create works that reflect and interrogate humanity, the way we co-exist and our relationship with nature; he revisits memories and connects them to spaces he has lived in as well as the everyday life of marginalised communities. His work was shown in “We’ve come to take you home”, an exhibition of works recently acquired by the University of Cape Town. Sidzumo is a recipient of the Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize, which has afforded him a solo exhibition titled Dancing in the Dust at Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg in 2020. In that same year, he was a runner-up for the Cassirer Welz award, hosted by Strauss & Co auctioneers.

The Shaman

2022

177,5 x 131 cm
Leather and thread and dye
© Studio Nxumalo
Courtesy Studio Nxumalo

7500€
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Waves

2021

60 x 79,5 cm
Leather and thread and dye
© Studio Nxumalo
Courtesy Studio Nxumalo

3000€
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Umalusi (shepherd)

2022

121 x 168 cm
Leather and thread and dye
© Studio Nxumalo
Courtesy Studio Nxumalo

7000€
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Brownie

2022

116 x 78 cm
Leather and thread and dye
© Studio Nxumalo
Courtesy Studio Nxumalo

4000€
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Kumnandi ekapa

2022

96 x 78 cm
Leather and thread and dye
© Studio Nxumalo
Courtesy Studio Nxumalo

3500€
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Ebumnyameni

2022

120 x 167,5 cm
Leather and thread and dye
© Studio Nxumalo
Courtesy Studio Nxumalo

6000€
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Tafadzwa Tega +

Adolf Tega was born in Harare in 1985. He started making art at the age of ten, inspired by his uncle and brother, who are also artists. Tega studied art at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, where he had his first group show. Tega moved to South Africa in 2008, and thereafter joined Good Hope Art Studios. Tega produced his first solo show for AVA Gallery in Cape Town in 2012, and his second for World Art in 2014. Tega’s work can be found in several institutional and private collections, including Spier and the University of Cape Town. Recently, Tega was chosen for Nando’s Creative Exchange 2020, followed by an exhibition at "Basha Uhuru Freedom Festival”.

VHENEKO

2022

200 x 150 cm
Mixed medium on canvas
© Tafadzwa Adolf Tega
Courtesy Africa First

18000€
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CHIEDZA

2022

200 x 150 cm
Mixed medium on canvas
© Tafadzwa Adolf Tega
Courtesy Africa First

18000€
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MARIKANA

2022

200 x 300 cm
Mixed medium on canvas
© Tafadzwa Adolf Tega
Courtesy Africa First

36000€
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RAMBI

2022

200 x 300 cm
Mixed medium on canvas
© Tafadzwa Adolf Tega
Courtesy Africa First

36000€
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