Phaswane David Mogano
South African (1923 - 2000 / 02)
Marketing Primary School, Pietrsburg Tship. NTVL. SA.
Circa 1970's
Watercolor on paper
22" x 30" sheet
Signed lower left
Titled on reverse
Watercolor of a black South African shanty town with multiple houses with metal roofs. A large number of figures in various forms of dress populating the scene.
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Phaswane David Mogano was born in Pietersburg in 1932. He received his schooling at the Mogano Primary and High Schools. In 1959 he received some informal art training at the Polly Street Art Centre under Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Kumalo.
Mogano lived in Johannesburg for many years. It is life in the township and city that appealed most strongly to his imagination and for which he has become renowned. He handled this subject with an acute sense of detail, with vivid graphic depictions of the physical and human environment.
Social criticism and documentation, the integration of traditional and Western modes of dress and dwelling, wit and humour are injected into the paintings of life in townships from Pimsville (now destroyed) to Pietersburg, Alexandra, Kgomo City, Early Western Township and Lebowa.
His paintings were executed exclusively in watercolours, a technique that he mastered. The paintings indicate an ingenious drawing ability and an idiosyncratic presentation of scale and perspective.
Exhibitions:
1970: Gallery Elysia, Johannesburg (Africa Art Project - group)
Gallery Michelangelo, Johannesburg (group)
1971: Gallery 101 (group)
1972: Triad Gallery, Johannesburg (group)
Foundation for Creative Art Gallery, Johannesburg (solo)
Gallery 21 (group)
Gallery 101 (group)
1973: Tirad Gallery, Johannesburg (solo)
1975: Group 51 Winter Art Exhibition
Madden Galleries, Sandton (solo)
1982: National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana (Art toward Social
Development - an exhibition of South African Art)
1983: Gallery 21 (Watercolours Now and Then)
1985: FUBA (Creative Workshop; A selection of works by distinguished Black Artists)
1986: Gallery 21 (Contemporary African Art selected works from the Pelmama
Permanent Art Collection)
Collections:
AFRICANA; Coca-Cola Company, Mexico; ISM; Putco; UFH
With some minor mat burn on the edges of the sheet.
Framed in a silver metal frame with plexiglass and with a silk wrapped mat.
Framed 26 1/4" x 34 1/8".
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