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Avhashoni Mainganye and Sandile Zulu last worked together when they were students at Rorke’s Drift. Now, twenty-five years later, and both having collaborated with printers at the David Krut Print Workshop, they are showing new limited editions and original works at the David Krut Gallery. Exhibition opens at 11h00 on 21 October at David Krut Arts Resource, 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood.

Sandile Zulu was born in Ixopo, Kwa-Zulu Natal in 1960. He studied art at the Rorke’s Drift Art & Craft Centre, Technikon Natal and Wits University, and has exhibited his work since the early nineties. Zulu’s work is represented in public and private collections in South Africa and he has exhibited in several major group exhibitions both locally and abroad. In 2005 Zulu had a solo exhibition in London at the October Gallery. His work, incorporating elements such as fire and found objects, gives expression to his wide-ranging interests in astronomy, science and pan-African philosophy. He has recently been invited to participate in an artists’ residency in the Seychelles.

After matriculating in 1980, Avhashoni Mainganye enrolled at Rorke’s Drift Art & Craft Centre, completing the course in two years. In 1985, he joined The Funda Art Centre while continuing his studies at Unisa. In the early 1990s he spent two years in Switzerland carving marble stone with Stefan Kofmehl and was invited to teach painting and printing at Coker College in the United States in 2000. Then in 2001 Mainganye was invited to Belgium to teach screen-printing to handicapped students. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions both locally and abroad. Back at home he has become a local cultural activist to revive the energy of the artists in Venda. In 1999, he initiated the ‘Matongoni Mountain Studio’. His aim continues to be to create art awareness, initiate arts education in Venda and promote other artists. His dream is to open a museum and manage his own art studio.

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