Mamma Africa
Oil on Canvas,
US$
6,230
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Mamma Africa
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Details
Oil on Canvas
W: 1600mm x H: 1100mm x D: 50mm
W: 63" x H: 43" x D: 2"
Approx. Weight: 6kg
This work is
framed (but can be supplied either framed or unframed)
Price
US$ 6,230
Scale
About "Mamma Africa"
News Years day 1991. I had been unable to sleep after djing the whole night at "Play" at 330 night club. I headed for Battery Beach. It was a bright bright summer day and the sea shore was a sea of silhouetted figures bathing in the surf. And then I saw her. And as I watched her, fascinated, she seemed to grow in stature, becoming larger and larger. She began to 'glow' - some form of immeasurable cord thread between us - as if she was being seen for the first time.
Mamma Africa appeared nude in my painting and in a 'traditionally submissive' pose. However, her expression is anything but submissive. Her body silhouette echoes the map of Africa. As you view the painting, her stature becomes enormous, as the sand morphs into a landscape of valleys. She has carried her load, the burden of the African Woman, with dignity and endurance and forbearance. She is capable carrying a lot more, but at the same time dares anybody to further burden her. She has had enough.
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About Helge Olle
Photographer: Gerald Botha of Stella Nova Studios, Kloof, KZN 2016
Costume design and construction, make-up, concept: Helge Janssen.
The period of disaster has lifted. PRICE of works has been updated.
My art is formed through a combination of myth, psyche, archetype and innovation drawn from life's many many influences...and has even amazed me with its portent...drawn from a deeply intuitive cognitive consciousness. We have so much more information as our source of inspiration amid a myriad of vying energies.
With the current madness and orchestrated insanity busy bombing our minds daily, with full intention to DISORIENTATE, OBFUSCATE and DEMORALISE our lives, we have to stand strong and focused.
It is more important than ever that these moronic forces that are hell bent on subjugating the world to its morass of dubious and despicable control mechanisms by robbing us of our sovereignty are defeated. It is a GIVEN that their plans are so DELUDED that they will never succeed. The mere fact that they even THINK that their plan will succeed is alarming enough. It has FAILURE built into it. What it boils down to is that they are trying to take as many people as they can with them. It is THEIR end game. It is THEIR fear. It is THEIR stupidity.
And of course being shadow banned as an artist is shameful. But the more I am ignored, hidden, the more powerful my work becomes. It is a given. Thank you in advance.
LATEST UPDATE: FB has ripped me apart! They have deleted all of my platforms for violating 'instagram's community standards. I had tried to remove myself from instagram a few years ago but my efforts failed....so I clean forgot about it. However, I became aware that when I post to my art pages that the post is also shared to instagram. FB does not tell me exactly what it is that I have done that constitutes this drastic response. When I follow the links to 'appeal' I am sent a 'verification' code that will allow me to make an appeal, but when I enter the verification code and require my ORIGINAL password, it keeps telling me that I have entered the wrong password. When I type in my phone number (another option) it tells me that no such number exists. I am told that I have 179 days within which to lodge an appeal. That boils down to a six month ban/...and, in the mean time a 'discreetly blatant' form of CREATIVE ASSASSINATION!!
When artists are made to feel that they have as much significance as another brick in the wall......KNOW that society has been completely INVERTED.
Price Range
US$ 56-12,461
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Exhibitions
too numerous to mention but held a RETROSPECTIVE of nine paintings on an invite from artist/filmmaker Aryan Kaganof at his VIRGINS exhibition at the KZNSA art gallery 2002. I also performed a solo experimental piece, plus showcased some fashion garments at the opening.
Also a solo show at Chilliplum restaurant, Hillcrest 2013.
"The mechanism whereby change happens in a democracy is to speak out. And if nobody listens, then to speak louder" - David Lewis.
Education
Natal Teachers' Senior Diploma III (Botany and Zoology)
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