, at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art , Johannes Phokela urges me to return a few days later. He is finishing two more paintings in a makeshift studio in Cape Town .
He has, throughout his career, flitted from gallery to gallery. You sense he eschews the local art gallery system. Why else would he, along with others, open the Sosesame Gallery in Melville, Johannesburg, in 2016? Unfortunately it didn’t last. This quasi survey show at the Zeitz Mocaa is oddly conceived as a vehicle for Phokela to sell works. In the end, about 50% of the artworks on exhibit are new paintings.
Will this Zeitz Mocaa show put him back on the map again? That the Goodman Gallery is selling the works showing at this museum exhibition bodes well for this outcome. That so many of the works are still in progress serves as a reminder that Phokela can’t churn art out, as so many Instragram-famous painters are seemingly able to do.
You could also detect a racialised or gendered narrative in this grand work; the central figure at the top of the painting appears to be a pregnant black woman pointing at a seated white male figure.
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