MTN New Contemporaries Art Award 2010

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MTN New Contemporaries Art Award 2010

urator, Nontobeko and winner Kemang Wa Lehulere


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Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile with the winner, Kemang Wa Lehulere, MTN SA Foundation Head Eunice

Maluleke and guest curator Nontobeko Ntombela.


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Kemang Working


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Kemang Detail


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Mohau Modisakeng and Stuart Birds Work


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Mohau and Stuarts Work


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onna Kukamas Work


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nna Kukamas in front of her piece.


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Donnas performance


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Donnas performance


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est curator Nontobeko Ntombela. Winner- Kemang Wa Lehulere , Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile , Donna

kama ( Runner up), Mohau Modisakeng (Runner up), MTN SA Foundation Head Eunice Maluleke and Stuart Bird (runner up).


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Mohaus piece at the opening


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ohaus work


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emang receiving his prize


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tuart Bird's performance


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art Bird working


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Stuart s piece


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Stuart s work


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uart Bird's piece


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uart Bird's piece


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Stuart Bird's piece


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MTN New Contemporaries Art Award 2010

At a prestigious event held for the first time at the KZNSA Gallery on Wednesday

night (15 September 2010) , Kemang Wa Luhelere was the overall winner. Donna

Kukama, Stuart Bird and Mohau Modisakeng were the runners up.

Held every two years since 2001, this much celebrated art competition identifies four

emerging South African artists as the new stars of the South African art world, and

elects a winner among them.

The MTN New Contemporaries Award is distinctly different from conventional art

competitions in South Africa as it is entirely unsolicited by the artists it honours. The

competition also discards old stereotypes about art and foregrounds our artists as a

source of new ideas and media.

Says Nontobeko Ntombela, the 2010 New Contemporaries Award guest curator:

"This year's finalists were an exciting line-up. Their work consisted of diverse

exhibition that mixes traditional and new media within a contemporary context, and

that might variously be described as critical, socially-engaged or ironic".

One of the MTN SA Foundation's most renowned projects, the MTN New

Contemporaries Award is a competition designed to promote talented, cutting-edge

artists who have not yet received critical acclaim but who are positioned to be the

next leaders in the art field.

Eunice Maluleke; Head of MTN SA Foundation says: "MTN SA New Contemporaries

Award affirms our responsibility to encourage creative thinking outside the business

arena and allows the opportunity for young South Africans to be heard. These

awards are also aimed at promoting young artists who have not yet had theopportunity for appropriate exposure."

"The concept of the MTN New Contemporaries Award contributes to the

development of South Africa's rich cultural and artistic practice. Held every two

years, this year is different in that it is the fifth year running meaning that we have

had ten years invested in the emerging contemporary art field."

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MTN New Contemporaries Art Award 2010