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Pierre Mukeba: Transcend

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12 - 17 October 2021
  • Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Pierre Mukeba,Transcend, 12 - 17 October 2021, Tiwani Contemporary, Viewing Room 3 & 4, Cromwell Place, London. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary.

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  • Pierre Mukeba

    (Double Headed), 2021 Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
    84 x 167 cm
    33 1/8 x 65 3/4 in
  • Guidance/grace flows through like a stream of holy water

    /as blue as the shy /as patient as a mother’s love

    / a connection that embodies an unbreakable sustenance, strength protection, power/determination/loyalty/peace/reliability/sensitivity/intelligence/stability)

    with a spirit purely linked to the forces of the universe/heaven/ A mother’s love, an unconditional shield.

     

    Pierre Mukeba, 2021

  • Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Transcend - an exhibition by Congolese-Australian artist Pierre Mukeba – marking the first European and UK presentation of his work and on view at arts-hub Cromwell Place in London, SW7 during Frieze Week. 

     

    Transcend features vibrant and frenetic, large-scale charcoal and pastel compositions, and brings together two recent emotionally heady bodies of work: Mental Gymnastics, and Black Emotion, the latter series recently presented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, New South Wales, Australia.

     

    Mukeba addresses themes of spirituality, political and economic unrest as well as representations of Africans in contemporary culture. He weaves stories of the African diaspora, the refugee crisis, displacement, and the trauma of war alongside his experiences of growing up as a Black African male in Australia.  He draws from Christianity, animist belief systems, Kongolese spirituality and sacerdotal ceremony including nkisi masks to produce charged, zoomorphic expositions of interiority. 

     

    In Transcend, the artist presents a series of vivid, totemic compositions featuring a pantheon of transmogrified creatures. Produced rapidly by the artist over a period lasting between 15minutes and 2days, these works represent Mukebas’s free-form oracular explorations likened to “accessing different dimensions” or “dancing and playing in two realms.”  Each work in the exhibition illuminates the inner workings of the artist’s imagination at the time of its composition; each dubbed by the artist to be unplanned, unseen and unmanipulated. The works in the exhibition emerge out of the artist’s connection to unseen, divine forces which the artist sees as ‘momentarily accessible to the hands.’ Fast, protective, complicated, and unbound from artifice, these almost talismanic works address a range of emotions, sensations and abstract ideas including but not limited to grace, sovereignty, power, despondency, determination, loyalty, peace, reliability, sensitivity, intelligence, stability, and love. 

     

  • Pierre Mukeba

    (Antelope Spirit Embodiment), 2020 Charcoal on archival paper
    120 x 168 cm
    47 1/4 x 66 1/8 in
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    About The Artist

     

    Pierre Mukeba (b.1995 Bakuvu, Democratic Republic of the Congo) currently lives and works in Adelaide, Australia.  Recent exhibitions include Black Emotion, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (solo - 2021); NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2020) Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. (2020). 

  • WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION
    • Pierre Mukeba, (Wise Pig), 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (Wise Pig), 2021
      Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
      83 x 167 cm
      32 5/8 x 65 3/4 in
    • Pierre Mukeba, (Halo), 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (Halo), 2021
      Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
      85 x 120 cm
      33 1/2 x 47 1/4 in
    • Pierre Mukeba, (Sharp Slender), 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (Sharp Slender), 2021
      Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
      65 x 335 cm
      25 5/8 x 131 7/8 in
    • Pierre Mukeba, (A Junket Baboon), 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (A Junket Baboon), 2021
      Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
      83 x 112 cm
      32 5/8 x 44 1/8 in
    • Pierre Mukeba, Totem, 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      Totem, 2021
      Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
      60 x 82 cm
      23 5/8 x 32 1/4 in
    • Pierre Mukeba, (Dancing Deer P2), 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (Dancing Deer P2), 2021
      Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
      83 x 167 cm
      32 5/8 x 65 3/4 in
    • Pierre Mukeba, (Double Headed), 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (Double Headed), 2021
      Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
      84 x 167 cm
      33 1/8 x 65 3/4 in
    • Pierre Mukeba, (Green Peacoak), 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (Green Peacoak), 2021
      Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
      89 x 165 cm
      35 1/8 x 65 in
    • Pierre Mukeba, (Amen), 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (Amen), 2021
      Pastel and Charcoal on archival paper
      83 x 86 cm
      32 5/8 x 33 7/8 in
    • Pierre Mukeba, (Spiritually Equipped), 2021
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (Spiritually Equipped), 2021
      Charcoal, Acrylic on archival paper
      120 x 210 cms
      47 12/50 x 82 34/50 inches
    • Pierre Mukeba, (Antelope Spirit Embodiment), 2020
      Artworks

      Pierre Mukeba

      (Antelope Spirit Embodiment), 2020
      Charcoal on archival paper
      120 x 168 cm
      47 1/4 x 66 1/8 in
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