Strauss & co - 1 December 2018, Cape Town

14 Zeitz MOCAA Benefit Art Auction Wallen Mapondera makes use of a wide variety of materials that best animate his ideas around the current social, political and economic issues faced by many Zimbabweans. In his earlier works, he used zoomorphic and anthropomorphic imagery to comment on power, inequality, and exploitation. As seen in Deedizerwa (2017), Mapondera’s more recent works draw our attention to issues around land-reclamation, redistribution, and migration through the use of discarded and obsolete materials – a metaphor for the displacement and marginalisation experienced by communities living in high-density areas. Wallen Mapondera (b. 1985, Zimbabwe) was selected for the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Artist-in-Residence Programme in Harare. Recent exhibitions include ‘Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era’ at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town (2018); ’Familiar Histories: An Unstoppable Force in Wallen Mapondera Contemporary Art Discourse’ at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare (2017); as well as ‘X: Part III’ and ‘Nothing Personal’ at SMAC Gallery in Stellenbosch (2017, 2016). 5 Wallen Mapondera ZIMBABWEAN 1985- Deedizerwa 2017 cardboard, laminated hessian 115 by 100cm ZAR40 000 - 60 000 £2 500 - 3 500 $3 000 - 4 500 € 2 500 - 3 750 PROVENANCE Donated by the artist. Courtesy of SMAC Gallery.