TLC Extension Collection: South Africa

May 25, 2020 is the start of round two of South Africa's The Lockdown Collection (TLC), raising funds for the Vulnerable Artists Fund. The TLC Extension Collection, curated by Gordon Froud, is hosted by Artist Proof Studio. For 21 days, new art works will be released, and Art Beyond Quarantine will comment on many of these.

Reflection: The TLC Extension Collection

Appropriately, the TLC Extension Collection opens with Sizwe Khoza’s portrait of a young person in rather prayerful meditation, pondering what the future might bring, a powerful image for a society on the threshold of profound transformation. The collection runs the entire spectrum from Themba Khumalo’s somber elegy to the faceless destitute to the irrepressible joy and optimism of Lebohang Motaung’s portrait of a young girl whose smiling face shines through a transparent mask. With compassion, Susan Woolf recognizes those at society’s margins who are most exposed to the crisis, while celebrating the resilient creativity of township culture. Robyn Penn and Marco Cianfanelli provide glimpses of the sublime through works dense with metaphorical allusions. Now, many weeks into the Lockdown, the collection takes us on a journey through the terrors of confinement and infection, the persistent longing for human touch, the heroism of the nation’s caregivers, and the resolute power of compassion at this moment of local and global crisis.

—Pam Allara and Mark Auslander (May 23, 2020)

Days 1-21: 

Day 1. (25 May)  Sizwe Khoza. "Kuzolunga, Mfana." 2020.
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/kuzolunga-mfana-sizwe-khoza.html

Day 2.  (26 May) Robyn Penn. Warped Time. 2020.

https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/robyn-penn.html

Day 3.  (27 May) Lebohang Motaung: And Yet I Smile (2020)

https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/and-yet-i-smile-lebohang-motaung.html

Day 4 (28 May)  Michael Meyersfeld. Fenced (2020) & Veiled (2020)
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/fenced-and-veiled.html

Day 5 (29 May)    Senzo Shabangu. The Nurse. 2020.
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-nurse-senzo-shabangu.html

Day 6 (30 May)   Sue Martin. Victory. 2020.
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/victory-sue-martin.html

Day 7 (31 May)   Vusi Beauchamp. We are Happy. 2020
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/tlc-extension-collection-south-africa.html

Day 8 (1 June).   Marco Cianfanelli. Breath. (2020)

https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/breath-marco-cianfanelli-tlc.html

*2 June: Blackout Tuesday

Day 9 (3 June)  Ella Cronje. All the King's Horses (2020)
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/06/all-kings-horses-ella-cronje.html 

Day 10 (4 June)  Ramarutha Makoba. Relwa ntwa ya kokwana took ya Corona
(From sePedi: "Together We are fighting the sickness of Coronavirus")
2020
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/relwa-ntwa-ya-kokwana-took-ya-corona.html

Day 11 (5 June)  Paul Emmanuel.  Platform Number 5.  (2020)
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/06/platform-number-5-paul-emmanuel.html

Day 12 (6 June) Sifiso Tembo, The Defender. 2020.
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-defender-sifiso-temba.html

Day 13 (7 June)  Jacki McInnes. Five Star, Junk Status.
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/06/five-star-and-junk-status-jacki-mcines.html

Day 14 (8 June)   Strijdom Van der Merwe  When Autumn Comes.
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/06/strijdom-van-der-merwe-when-autumn.html 

Day 15 (9 June)   Christiaan Diedericks, Saint Corona (Dark - a single diagnosis of health)
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/06/saint-corona-christiaan-diedericks.html 

Day 16 (10 June). Themba Khumalo. Waiting for Food Parcels. 2020

https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/waiting-for-food-parcels-themba-khumalo.html

Day 17 (11 June) Susan Woolf  Pathways of Hand Taxi Signs (2019) and The Future we Choose (2020)

https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/pathways-of-taxi-hand-signs-susan-woolf.html

Day 18 (12 June)  Steven Rosin. There's a Cat among the Pigeons.
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/06/theres-cat-among-pigeons-steven-rosin.html

Day 19. (13 June)  Stompie Selibe. The Old Births and the New (Shangaan Dress), 2020
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/05/shangan-dress-stompie-selibe.html

Day 20 (14 June). Bevan de Wet. New Territories
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/06/new-territories.html


Day 21 (15 June)  Roger Ballen. Fisherman's Trophy.
https://artbeyondquarantine.blogspot.com/2020/06/fishermans-trophy-roger-ballen.html


For more information on the TLC Extension Collection:

www.artistproofstudio.co.za
 https://www.thelockdowncollection.com/extension-collection

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