Berry Bickle
Berry Bickle (born 1959) is a Zimbabwean artist who lives in Maputo.
Berry Bickle was born in Bulawayo in 1959. She attends the Chisipite High School in Harare, the Durban Institute of Technology where she obtains the higher national diploma in fine art [1] and South Africa's Rhodes University where she obtains a master degree in fine arts.[2]
She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and concerns her work with the region's history of colonialism. In 1988 she organises with Tapfuma Gutsa the Pachipamwe workshop, the first Triangle Art Trust workshop organised in Africa[3] In 2010 Berry Bickle is awarded with the Rockefeller Foundation's Creative Arts Fellow[4] and she works at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on the series Suite Europa.
Work
Her works are generally installations, and are mixed media works which incorporate script; some include video and photography. She has collaborated with the Peruvian artist Adrian Velasquez. The exhibition and the publication Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art[5] highlight the presence of texts in the work of Berry Bickle and the importance of the act of writing and of collecting words; in this frame the artist herself defines her work "Re-Writes.[6]
- "Maputo Utopias" series.[7]
- Suite Europa, 2010. The series is produced during a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.
- Sleeping beauty, 2008
- Cyrene
- Inheritance lost library
- Wandering
- Sarungano
- Pessoa bowls series
Exhibitions
Berry Bickle's work is exhibited internationally.
- Zimbabwe/Tanzania: contemporary artists, Helsinki, 1993.
- 5th Havana Bienna"le, Cuba, 1994.
- First Johannesburg Africus Biennale, 1995.
- On the Road, Africa'95, London, England, 1995.
- MBCA-Decade of Award Winners, National Gallery, Harare, 1996.
- Artists against landmines, Franco/Mozambique Cultural Centre, Maputo, 1999.
- World Video Festival, Gates Foundation, Amsterdam, 1999.
- Artistes contemporains du Zimbabwe, Pierre Gallery, Paris, 1999.
- Women in African Art, Vienna, 1999.
- 2001 El tiempo de Africa, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria "Siyaphambili-2000," National Gallery, Harare, 2001.
- Art dans le Monde, Paris, 2001.
- Africas: The Artist and the City: A Journey and an Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.
- Afrika Remix - Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents - Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 2004.
- Visions of Zimbabwe - Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (England), 2004.
- Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2005.
- Textures - Word & Symbol in Contemporary African Art - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, 2005.
- Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent - Hayward Gallery, London (England), 2005.
- Body of Evidence (Selections from the Contemporary African Art Collection) - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC, 2006.
- Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2006.
- 7ème Biennale de l´Art Africain contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, exhibition curated by N'Goné Fall in the frame of the individual exhibitions, Dakar, 2006.
- Annual MUSART - Museu Nacional de Artes (MUSART), Maputo, 2007.
- Exit11, Limited edition Part 1 - Exit11, Grand-Leez, 2007.
- Africa Remix - Contemporary art of a continent - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, 2007.
- L'oeil-Écran Ou La Nouvelle Image - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, 2007.
- Exit11, Exhibition 02 - Collective exhibition - Exit11, Grand-Leez, 2007.
- Videozone 4 - Videozone - International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, 2008.
- ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin, 2008.[8]
- chance encounters - Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, 2008.
- Animais: Caracterização e Representação - Museu Nacional de Artes (MUSART), Maputo, 2008.
- Chance Encounters - Seven Contemporary Artists from Africa - Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA,Lagos), Lagos, 2009.
- Maputo: A Tale of One City - Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, 2009.
- Biennale di Venezia - 54th International Art Exhibition, Pavilion of Zimbabwe, exhibition Seeing Ourselves curated by Raphael Chikukwa, Venice, 2011.
Bibliography
- Gaël Teicher, Berry Bickle: plasticienne, Editions de l'Oeil, Paris, 2008.
- "A carta de Gaspar Vezoso I : TZR studies a painting by Berry Bickle" Zimbabwean Review 3 (2), April–June 1997: 1-2.
- A.J. Chennells, "Empire's offspring" in Gallery: the art magazine from Gallery Delta (7 March 1996): 3-6
- Peter S. Garlake, "Memory, mischief and magic in the country of my heart" in Gallery: the art magazine from Gallery Delta(17 September 1998): 22-25.
- Helen Lieros, "Earthãwaterãfire, recent works by Berry Bickle" in Gallery: the art magazine from Gallery Delta (11 March 1997): 20-21.
- Pierre-Laurent Sanner, "Berry Bickle" in Revue Noire 28 (March–April-May) 1998: 224-227.
References
- ^ Durban Technical College: National Diploma in Fine Art (Honours), Higher national Diploma in Fine Art (Honours) published in Berry Bickle's biography on http://www.kulungwana.org.mz/eng/Artists/Berry-Bickle.
- ^ Berry Bickle's biography from the National Museum of African Art; Rhodes University: Masters Degree in Fine Arts, practical (Honours) in published in Berry Bickle's biography on http://www.kulungwana.org.mz/eng/Artists/Berry-Bickle.
- ^ Pachipamwe International Artists’ Workshop is held annually in Zimbabwe between 1988 to 1994. Set of images of the workshop.
- ^ Berry Bickle's presentation on the Rockefeller Foundation website with a short description of her work.
- ^ Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art, curated by Chistine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, Allyson Purpura, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2007.
- ^ Berry Bickle, Re-Writes in Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art, curated by Chistine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, Allyson Purpura, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2007, p. 227-229; in particular the text refers to the works Wandering, Sarungano, Pessoa bowls series.
- ^ [Melancholia from the series "Maputo Utopias", 2007 on IFA gallery website http://www.ifa.de/en/exhibitions/dt/past-exhibitions/2008/bamako-2007/berry-bickle/].
- ^ [Melancholia from the series "Maputo Utopias", 2007 on IFA gallery website http://www.ifa.de/en/exhibitions/dt/past-exhibitions/2008/bamako-2007/berry-bickle/].
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See also
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1959 |
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Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |
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