The South African artist will bring her Ndebele-rooted designs to the long-running contemporary art fair this December.
Dr. Mahlangu has been creating tradition-inspired contemporary art for 70 years. Photo by Clint Strydom, courtesy of SCOPE Art ShowThe work, on view SCOPE ’s iconic pavilion on Ocean Drive, will continue the career-spanning theme of peace found in Dr. Mahlangu’s paintings, which are rooted in traditional Ndebele designs.
Although she had no formal education, Dr. Mahlangu took to painting and worked to perfect her adopted craft, eventually expanding from the customary buildings to canvases and found objects. She was the first woman and African artist to paint a BMW Art Car in 1991, and in October 2024, BMW honored her artistic oeuvre as part of its Frieze London programming. Concurrently, she unveiled a site-specific mural at London’s Serpentine, with the institution calling her “one of the most important artists of our time.”
A bold, large-scale example of her signature abstract, geometric shapes in vibrant colors, the painting is a full eight meters long and two meters high in acrylic on canvas. Just last week, she had her first U.S. book launch for “To Paint is in My Heart,” a series of interviews, at Soho House Miami.
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