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Berry Bickle
human
Ein sex anaa genderfemale Edit
Country wey e be citizenMozambique Edit
Name wey dem give amBerry Edit
Family nameBickle Edit
Ein date of birth1959 Edit
Place dem born amBulawayo Edit
Languages edey speak, rep anaa signFrench Edit
Ein occupationvisual artist Edit
Field for workinstallation artwork Edit
Educate forRhodes University Edit

Berry Bickle (born 1959) be a Zimbabwean artist wey dey reside insyd Maputo. Na dem born am insyd Bulawayo, Bickle attend de Chisipite Senior School insyd Harare. Later, she attend de Durban Institute of Technology, wer na she obtain a national diploma insyd fine arts,[1] den South Africa ein Rhodes University, wer na she obtain a master's degree insyd fine arts.[1][2] Na Bickle be a founding member of Bulawayo ein Visual Artists' Association.[3]

She dey divide ein time between Zimbabwe den Mozambique, wey ein work dey explore de region ein history of colonialism.[4] Insyd 1988, she den Tapfuma Gutsa organise de Pachipamwe workshop, de first Triangle Art Trust workshop dem organise insyd Africa.[5] Insyd 2010 she cam turn a Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow[6] wey she dey work for de Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center for de series Suite Europa top.

Work

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Berry Bickle be a multimedia artist wey dey work insyd installation, video, photography, den ceramics.[7] Ein works be generally installations, wey dem be mixed media work wich dey incorporate script; sam dey include video den photography. Bickle collaborate closely plus de Zimbabwean ceramicist, Marjorie Wallace.[7] She collaborate plus de Peruvian artist Adrian Velasquez. De exhibition den de publication Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art[8] dey highlight de presence of texts insyd Bickle ein work den de importance of de act of writing den of collecting words; insyd dis frame, de artist dey label ein work "Re-Writes".[9]

  • "Maputo Utopias" series.[10]
  • Suite Europa, 2010. Na dem produce de series during a residency for de Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.
  • Sleeping beauty, 2008
  • Cyrene
  • Inheritance lost library
  • Wandering
  • Sarungano
  • Pessoa bowls series

Exhibitions

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Na dem exhibit Berry Bickle ein work internationally. Insyd 2011, Bickle represent Zimbabwe for de Venice Biennale, for de time a rare appearance give an African nation.[11] De Zimbabwean Pavilion, wich na dem curate by Raphael Chikukwa, na he title am "Seeing Ourselves".[11]

  • Zimbabwe/Tanzania: contemporary artists, Helsinki, 1993.
  • 5th Havana Biennalle, Cuba, 1994.
  • First Johannesburg Africus Biennale, 1995.
  • On the Road, Africa95, 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.[12]
  • 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.[10]
  • 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.[11]
  • The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, 2014 Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main.[13]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Staff (2009). "" ARTISTS " Berry Bickle". Kulungwana. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  2. ↑ Staff (2012). "Berry Bickle b. Zimbabwe, 1959". Textures – Word and symbol in contemporary African art. National Museum of African Art/Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Magee, Carol (2000-02-21). Bickle, Berry. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t096497.
  4. ↑ Simbao, Ruth; Chikukwa, Raphael; Ogonga, Jimmy; Bickle, Berry; Pereira, Marie Hélène; Altass, Dulcie Abrahams; Chikowero, Mhoze; Fall, N'Goné (June 2018). "Zimbabwe Mobilizes: ICAC's Shift from Coup de Grăce to Cultural Coup". African Arts (in English). 51 (2): 4–17. doi:10.1162/afar_a_00399. ISSN 0001-9933.
  5. ↑ Pachipamwe International Artists' Workshop is held annually in Zimbabwe between 1988 and 1994. Set of images of the workshop.
  6. ↑ Staff (2010). "Berry Bickle". Rockefeller Foundation – Innovation for the next 100 years. The Rockefeller Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sterling, Beverley (July–August 2008). "BERRY BICKLE: LOST WORDS NATIONAL GALLERY OF ZIMBABWE, HARARE APRIL 2008". Ceramic Review (232).
  8. ↑ Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art, curated by Christine Mullen Kreamer, Mary Nooter Roberts, Elizabeth Harney, Allyson Purpura, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, 2007.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 [Melancholia from the series "Maputo Utopias", 2007 on IFA gallery website "IFA: Berry Bickle". Archived from the original on 3 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-15.].
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Meldrum, Andrew (June 3, 2011). "Zimbabwean artists featured at Venice Biennale - Zimbabwean paintings, videos, sculpture and photos displayed in Venice festival". Global Post.
  12. ↑ WICKOUSKI, Sheila (February 24, 2005). "Ruscha-What's in a word? - Two exhibits, one at the National Gallery of Art and one at the National Museum of African Art, center around the written word". Free Lance-Star.
  13. ↑ "Divine Comedy". Kerber Verlag. Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.

Bibliography

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  • 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.
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