{"id":637,"date":"2020-10-18T16:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/?p=637"},"modified":"2021-06-07T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T08:50:23","slug":"jackson-hlungwani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za\/eng\/jackson-hlungwani\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Hlungwani"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hlungwani was priester-beeldhouer en die charismatiese geestelike leier van \u2018n groep navolgers van die African Zionist Church in Gazankulu.<\/p>\n

In sy persoonlike geestelike filosofie kombineer Hlungwani tradisionele elemente van sy Tsonga-erfenis met di\u00e9 van sy Christelike oortuigings. Hierdie idees is ook die voedingsbron vir sy visies en die inspirasie vir sy beeldhoukuns.<\/p>\n

\u201cHy herinner ons aan universele waarhede, veral dat die mens \u2018n vrye wil het \u00e9n die kreatiewe ruimte om homself en sy leefw\u00eareld op verskillende maniere weer te gee. Ons is dit aan onsself verskuldig om hierdie verskil, hierdie unieke kreatiewe gees op opregte en eerlike maniere tot uiting te bring as ons die w\u00eareld wil verander.\u201d (Hopkins [s.a.])<\/p>\n

Esm\u00e9 Berman (1993) verwys na \u2018n toonaangewende uitstalling in 1985, die BMW Tributaries<\/i>, wat in die onstuimige sosio-politieke omstandighede van die laat tagtigerjare uitgestaan het j\u00fa\u00eds omdat dit nie die brutaliteit en geweld weerspie\u00ebl het nie, maar van kunstenaars was \u201cwho recognised the healing, humanising value of artistic vision and who sought spiritual essence amid the harshness of objective truths\u201d.<\/p>\n

Die kurator van die uitstalling, Ricky Burnett, het die platteland besoek en onbekende swart kunstenaars se werke opgediep wat vroe\u00ebr as \u201ctradisionele kuns\u201d, kunsvlyt of selfs rariteite (curios<\/i>) bestempel is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Berman het verder ook opgemerk dat heersende leerstellings skielik omvergewerp is en aannames oor die oppergesag van Westerse estetiese waardes as selfbedrieglik en wesenlik elitisties aan die kaak gestel is. Jackson Hlungwani se werk is hierby ingesluit.<\/p>\n

Waarom dan hierdie skielike entoesiasme oor kuns-uitinge wat vroe\u00ebr as minderwaardig beskou is? Berman is van mening dat hierdie onverwagse verskyning van werke gewortel in tradisionele waardes, onbesoedel deur die heersende gekunsteldheid en veral vry van die retoriek en woede in die meeste kunsuitinge van die tyd, soos \u2018n koel briesie op \u2018n hittige somersdag was.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Its appeal to common sensibilities, across the barriers of culture, race and ideology, performed a healing function and seemed to signal a ray of hope. <\/i>(Berman 1993)<\/p>\n

Even in full sensibility of the upheaval all around them \u2013 maybe because of it \u2013 there were artists in South Africa who recognised the healing, humanising value of artistic vision and who sought spiritual essence amid the harshness of objective truths. <\/i>(1993)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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