South African Visual Artist Nelson Makamo Launches His First Independent Solo Exhibition In USA
South African Visual Artist Nelson Makamo Launches His First Independent Solo Exhibition In USA. Setting up an exhibition as an artist can be a task that brings a lot of challenges, doing it on an international scale is even more challenging as the artists might not have the necessary resources from the start to fully execute their idea.
Nelson Makamo a South African Visual Artist has overcome the challenges he face to officially launch his own exhibition called “Blue” in the United States of America. The exhibition will be open to the public until 20 November 2021. Nelson’s work is strongly influenced by the candid innocents of children. He is particularly drawn to children in rural South Africa, he believes that they embody the peace and harmony everyone strives for in life, the search for eternal joy lies in the child within everyone and people just so consumed with worldly things that they forget the simplicity of life through a child’s perspective. He evolved his scope of experience and so did his medium of expression, namely charcoal, acrylic, water colours, mono-types, silk screen and oil paintings.
Nelson Makamo is a Johannesburg based artist. He was born in 1982, in a town called Modimolle, in South Africa’s Limpopo province. Born with an astounding artistic aptitude he honed his craft at Artist Proof Studios in Johannesburg where he studied print making for 3 years. Makamo has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in South Africa, France, Italy, America, Netherlands, The United Kingdom, Germany, Amsterdam and Scotland. His first solo exhibition, Walk with Me, was held at the Obert Contemporary Gallery in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg. His most notable group exhibition was alongside established South African artists in Ten Years of Printmaking: David Krut Print Studio in 2006. Invited artists included David Koloane, Colbert Mashile, Deborah Bell and William Kentridge.
With this latest exhibition Makamo has cemented himself as one of the best visual artists that come from the African continent. The exhibition was attended by some high profile celebrities such as Tiffany Haddish, Ferrari Sheppard, BJ the Chicago Kid, Robert Lang and Sho Madjozi.
