The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum is pleased to announce that local Port Elizabeth print maker, Ethna Frankenfeld is the winner of the 2010 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial Exhibition and Award.
Frankenfeld is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Studio Arts at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. The Award exhibition promises a hard look at the prejudices and injustice of colonial and contemporary South Africa through the meticulous marks, lines and shades of printmaking.
Frankenfeld’s work deals with gender and power relations in modern and colonial society. For her Award Exhibition, she plans to draw on images from the Art Museum’s collection of historical paintings and sketches of 18th and 19th century South Africa. Through re-interpretation, she will interrogate how colonial artists were prejudiced in their representations of local people. She will uncover how these prejudices prevail in today’s society perpetuating a negative view of the African cultural and identity.
The selection panel responsible for choosing this year’s winner consisted of Dr Melanie Hillebrand (Director, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum), Gregory Kerr (Director, Greg Kerr Fine art) and Nomusa Makhubu (Artists and Artist and Art History and Visual Culture Lecturer, Rhodes University).
Frankenfeld’s winning exhibition will be on view at the Art Museum in March 2012.
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Awesome Ethna, think of you often.
Joanne Wolmarans