The Future White Women of Azania/ Live Art Review X Mary Corrigall

The Future White Women of Azania x Athi-Patra Ruga @ Live Art x Mary Corrigall
Cover Photo : Ashley Walters 

...ilulwane 2011-2012 @ What If The World / Gallery .

Ilulwane Series I - 

Athi-Patra Ruga 2012

Archival inkJet print on Cotton Rag 

142 × 117 cm

courtesy of the artist and whatiftheworld/gallery

The Future White Women of Azania , 01/12/12 , A-PR & STUDIO , Cape Town .

...ILULWANE in ACNE PAPER # 14 . OUT NOW.

The three cover portraits of Mikhail Baryshnikow, Richard Serra and Fran Lebowitz
were all photographed in New York by Brigitte Lacombe for Acne Paper.

                  

Athi-Patra Ruga performing his piece Ilulwane . Photograph by KopeFiggins © theartist /whatiftheworld  
                                                        
                                                                 http://www.acnepaper.com/

ATHI-PATRA RUGA AT THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2012 /// ...THE FUTURE WHITE WOMEN OF AZANIA (THE PREQUEL)

Irma Stern Interventions

Zulu Woman ( as Liquidasha ) after Irma Stern 1935 
2012 
Wool and tapestry thread on tapestry canvas 
90cm x 120 cm

Zulu Woman 2012 (After Irma Stern 1935) 

2012 

Wool and tapestry thread on tapestry canvas 

97cm x 137cm

© Athi-Patra Ruga and studio [2012]

Official Selection - MOSCOW BIENNALE FOR YOUNG ART.

Moscow International Biennale for Young Art is a large-scale project realized on the Moscow art scene in the field of contemporary art. The Biennale brings together artistic initiatives from all over Russia and the world. Leading art centers of Moscow in collaboration with regional and international partners take part in the Biennale’s preparation and realization. The Biennale focuses on a young generation of artists aged up to 35 years.The aims of the Biennale are to support and encourage the creative development of a new generation of authors and to demonstrate the work of modern art to interested audiences. The Biennial program is addressed to people of all ages, to the large number Russian and foreign art-lovers who are interested in processes happening in contemporary art today. It aims to attract an interest of professional art community: art historians, critics, curators and gallery owners, who are searching for new talents for a long-term perspective.

The founders of the Biennale are the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow, the National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA).