Parade of shadows, 2009. Manière noire stone lithograph, hand printed, hand coloured, signed, numbered and dated by the artist. Black lithographic ink and watercolour pigment on 285 gsm Fabriano Rosaspina Avorio paper, 80 x 156 cm. Edition 35. Courtesy of Art Source South Africa and Spier Collection
If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future, Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 10 March – 20 June 2025
If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future highlights work from the Nando’s collection that was created in South Africa between 1948 and 2020. This exhibition underscores the collection’s extensive holdings in portraiture, cityscapes, landscapes, and abstraction. The artwork on view shapes an understanding of the South African milieu and its transformation over the last seventy years. They also offer insight into multi-generational views on life and placemaking. The paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photography serve as visual documentation of forgotten images and histories in much the same way a journalist records and transmits stories to a reader. While they are bound by a specific time and place, they chronicle universal issues that touch us all: love, loss and the hope for a better future.
