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Cinga Samson - Monograph

£50.00

Publisher: White Cube
Year: 2023
Format: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New
Pages: 92
Size: 310 x 241mm

A monograph on Cinga Samson, featuring the South African artist’s dreamlike large-scale tableaux and enigmatic portraits, is published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at White Cube Mason’s Yard, London (7 July – 26 August 2023).

Possessing qualities at turns hallucinatory and ceremonial, Samson’s work speaks to the fusion of material and metaphysical realms. Numerous full-bleed details display the complex gestures at work in Samson’s ritualistic compositions, where a privileging of communal belonging often invokes a mysterious, funereal atmosphere.

Navigating the unknown, the devotional and divine, an essay by Lwandile Fikeni responds to Samson’s interest in the spiritual and philosophical systems of amaXhosa and their native language of isiXhosa – where Fikeni finds ‘a multidimensional system at play’ likewise present within Samson’s paintings. An essay by Tamar Garb explores the artist’s work and its relation to place. Despite the seemingly specific context of Cape Town’s urban landscape, Garb situates this hyperreal yet oneiric figuration in a space between the real and the imagined.