Sandile Radebe, who in this exhibition visualises graffiti in abstract sculptural forms that take the place of alphabetic lettering. In ‘Walking the City’, he transforms the gallery into an imaginative maze for the viewer to navigate that evokes the artist’s own experience of walking through Johannesburg, inspired by the bustling activity of informal traders, taxi ranks and specific architectural features. At the exhibition’sheart is a tower made of reconceptualised graffiti tags, as model for a public sculpture. The viewer is thus encouraged to think about graffiti and indeed language in a new way while also conjuring the city ‘out there’ through an internal creative navigation in both time and space.
Kim Gurney Sandile Radebe National School of the Arts graffiti sculpture Johannesburg public art language space Jabulani Matthews Tshuma time
Artist: Sandile Radebe
Curator: Kim Gurney
Essays by: Kim Gurney, Sandile Radebe
Gallery: National School of the Arts, Johannesburg
Dates: 15 October 2014 – 25 October 2014
Website: http://walkinthecity.withtank.com/
Pages: 15
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