Berry Bickle
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Berry Bickle is a Zimbabwe
an artist who lives in Maputo
.
Berry Bickle was born in Bulawayo
in 1959. She attends the Chisipite High School in Harare
, the Durban Institute of Technology where she obtains the higher national diploma in fine art and South Africa
's Rhodes University
where she obtains a master degree in fine arts.
She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique
, and concerns her work with the region's history of colonialism
. In 1988 she organises with Tapfuma Gutsa
the Pachipamwe workshop, the first Triangle Art Trust workshop organised in Africa In 2010 Berry Bickle is awarded with the Rockefeller Foundation's Creative Arts Fellow and she works at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on the series Suite Europa.
, and are mixed media
works which incorporate script; some include video
and photography
. She has collaborated with the Peruvian artist Adrian Velasquez.
The exhibition and the publication Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art highlight the presence of texts in the work of Berry Bickle and the importance of the act of writing and of collecting words; in this frame the artist herself defines her work "Re-Writes.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
an artist who lives in Maputo
Maputo
Maputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its...
.
Berry Bickle was born in Bulawayo
Bulawayo
Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...
in 1959. She attends the Chisipite High School in Harare
Harare
Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...
, the Durban Institute of Technology where she obtains the higher national diploma in fine art and South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
's Rhodes University
Rhodes University
Rhodes University is a public research university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, established in 1904. It is the province’s oldest university, and is one of the four universities in the province...
where she obtains a master degree in fine arts.
She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
, and concerns her work with the region's history of colonialism
Colonialism
Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a process whereby the metropole claims sovereignty over the colony and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by...
. In 1988 she organises with Tapfuma Gutsa
Tapfuma Gutsa
Tapfuma Gutsa is a Zimbabwean sculptor.A native of Harare, Gutsa was studied sculpture with Cornelius Manguma at the Driefontein Mission School, later becoming the first Zimbabwean recipient of a British Council award...
the Pachipamwe workshop, the first Triangle Art Trust workshop organised in Africa In 2010 Berry Bickle is awarded with the Rockefeller Foundation's Creative Arts Fellow and she works at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on the series Suite Europa.
Work
Her works are generally installationsInstallation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
, and are mixed media
Mixed media
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
works which incorporate script; some include video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
and photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
. She has collaborated with the Peruvian artist Adrian Velasquez.
The exhibition and the publication Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art highlight the presence of texts in the work of Berry Bickle and the importance of the act of writing and of collecting words; in this frame the artist herself defines her work "Re-Writes.
- "Maputo Utopias" series.
- Suite Europa, 2010. The series is produced during a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.
- Sleeping beauty, 2008
- Cyrene
- Inheritance lost library
- Wandering
- Sarungano
- Pessoa bowls series
Exhibitions
Berry Bickle's work is exhibited internationally.- Zimbabwe/Tanzania: contemporary artists, Helsinki, 1993.
- 5th Havana Bienna"le, Cuba, 1994.
- First Johannesburg Africus Biennale, 1995.
- On the Road, Africa'95, London, England, 1995.
- MBCA-Decade of Award Winners, National Gallery, Harare, 1996.
- Artists against landmines, Franco/Mozambique Cultural Centre, Maputo, 1999.
- World Video Festival, Gates Foundation, Amsterdam, 1999.
- Artistes contemporains du Zimbabwe, Pierre Gallery, Paris, 1999.
- Women in African Art, Vienna, 1999.
- 2001 El tiempo de Africa, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria "Siyaphambili-2000," National Gallery, Harare, 2001.
- Art dans le Monde, Paris, 2001.
- Africas: The Artist and the City: A Journey and an Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.
- Afrika Remix - Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents - Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 2004.
- Visions of Zimbabwe - Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (England), 2004.
- Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2005.
- Textures - Word & Symbol in Contemporary African Art - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, 2005.
- Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent - Hayward Gallery, London (England), 2005.
- Body of Evidence (Selections from the Contemporary African Art Collection) - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, 2006.
- Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2006.
- 7ème Biennale de l´Art Africain contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, exhibition curated by N'Goné Fall in the frame of the individual exhibitions, Dakar, 2006.
- Annual MUSART - Museu Nacional de Artes (MUSART), Maputo, 2007.
- Exit11, Limited edition Part 1 - Exit11, Grand-Leez, 2007.
- Africa Remix - Contemporary art of a continent - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, 2007.
- L'oeil-Écran Ou La Nouvelle Image - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, 2007.
- Exit11, Exhibition 02 - Collective exhibition - Exit11, Grand-Leez, 2007.
- Videozone 4 - Videozone - International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, 2008.
- ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin, 2008.
- chance encounters - Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2008.
- Animais: Caracterização e Representação - Museu Nacional de Artes (MUSART), Maputo, 2008.
- Chance Encounters - Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa - Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA,Lagos), Lagos, 2009.
- MaputoMaputoMaputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its...
: A Tale of One City - Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, 2009. - Biennale di Venezia - 54th International Art Exhibition, Pavilion of Zimbabwe, exhibition Seeing Ourselves curated by Raphael Chikukwa, Venice, 2011.
External links
See also
- Zimbabwean art