UP FRONT
LISTEN TO THIS: BEOSOUND EDGE The Beosound Edge speaker, designed by acclaimed lighting designer Michael Anastassiades, is testament to his minimalist
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In addition, Nhlengethwa has
design approach. The timeless and
also produced an impressive and
refined exterior hides an acoustic
sizeable body of printmaking
masterpiece. Looking completely
work. His lithographs, linocuts,
unlike your average home speaker,
etchings, photogravures and
the simple aluminium circle has the
screen prints tackle various
look of a contemporary art piece. It
SEE THIS: LEETO: A SAM NHLENGETHWA PRINT RETROSPECTIVE
socio-political and cultural
is available in a sophisticated colour
experiences. The underpinning
palette comprising Silver, Bronze
theme of the exhibition is
and Brass Tone.
Leeto: A Sam Nhlengethwa Print
jazz. An early influence in
Retrospective surveys the print
Nhlengethwa’s works was the
work of renowned artist Sam
underground township jazz
Nhlengethwa from 1978 to 2018.
community, and the exhibition
Leeto is a seTswana/seSotho word
draws links between the fluid
for ‘journey’ and, as the word
nature of jazz improvisation and
suggests, the exhibition explores
Nhlengethwa’s study of an ever-
the ongoing artistic footsteps
changing community. Not only is
of Nhlengethwa. Nhlengethwa’s
it a recurrent theme in his work
work spans a variety of mediums,
and something that Nhlengethwa
from painting, drawing to collage,
loves and is inspired by, but
and some of his works have been
jazz begins to articulate the
translated into tapestries. One
various possibilities for a deeper
of his big cityscape works was
understanding and reading of
translated into a mosaic.
his oeuvre.
SILVER DIGEST // WINTER 2019
