Ingubo Yesizwe
2008
Leather, rubber, gauze, ribbon, steel, found ball-and-claw chair leg, butcher's hook, chain
150 x 260 x 3000 cm (708 11/16 x 2007 7/8 x 3228 5/16 in.)
Ingubo Yesizwe is a giant hybrid creature sewn from pieces of leather, rubber, gauze, ribbon, steel, and other salvaged materials.
Ingubo Yesizwe implies protection, integration, and the potential for transformation, both of the materials Hlobo uses and the country he lives in”, explains Kerryn Greenberg, curator of the Tate Modern exhibition for which the work was commissioned in 2008. The South African artist mixes different materials, to explore his own identity, origins, ethnicity and colonial heritage.
The work Ingubo Yesizwe, part of the Pinault Collection, was presented at the Palazzo Grassi at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition (2011-2012).
Ingubo Yesizwe implies protection, integration, and the potential for transformation, both of the materials Hlobo uses and the country he lives in”, explains Kerryn Greenberg, curator of the Tate Modern exhibition for which the work was commissioned in 2008. The South African artist mixes different materials, to explore his own identity, origins, ethnicity and colonial heritage.
The work Ingubo Yesizwe, part of the Pinault Collection, was presented at the Palazzo Grassi at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition (2011-2012).
Exhibitions
Courtesy Tate Gallery.
Exhibition view, Uhambo, Tate Modern's Level 2 Gallery, December 9 2008 - March 29 2009.
Courtesy of Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.
Photo: Mario Todeschini
Exhibition view, Michael Stevenson's gallery.
© Palazzo Grassi Spa.
Photo : ORCH orsenigo_chemollo
Exhibition view, Le Monde Vous Appartient, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, June 2 2011 - February 21 2012.
© Palazzo Grassi Spa.
Photo : ORCH orsenigo_chemollo
Exhibition view, Le Monde Vous Appartient, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, June 2 2011 - February 21 2012.
© Palazzo Grassi Spa.
Photo : ORCH orsenigo_chemollo
Exhibition view, Le Monde Vous Appartient, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, June 2 2011 - February 21 2012.