Some of the most striking standouts at the recent Biennale in Sydney, Australia (which I was attending, in part, in my sometime role as the Festival’s traveling scout), were the powerfully enigmatic resin cast figures by the young Swaziland-born (1982), Capetown-based Nandipha Mntambo: headless figures cast, that is, out of vast swaths of richly colored untreated cowhide, pelts which in turn had originally been draped over casts of the artist’s own body, whose various...
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