Esther Mahlangu’s retrospective placed community beside individual achievement

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Voni Baloyi’s ArtThrob review of Esther Mahlangu’s Iziko retrospective considered how a major survey could honour both an individual artist and the Ndebele community sustaining her practice. The account discussed curator Nontobeko Ntombela’s thematic approach, the returned BMW Art Car and less-familiar figurative works. Baloyi argued for placing Mahlangu within broader histories of South African abstraction, Black women artists and communal cultural preservation.

Summarised from ArtThrob · Voni Baloyi. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.