OPPORTUNITY: Deadline draws close for New Signatures exhibition submissions

Deadline: 22nd July 2019

Exhibition running from 29th July to 7th October 2019

Robert Mapplethorpe, who was a Portrait Photographer in the 20th century experimented with various techniques and autobiography to create private diaries, different personas, individuality and mortality.

New Signatures is a tool to encourage young artists to ponder on any kind of object or subject matter that expresses their own uniqueness. This exhibition calls these young, fresh and emerging female and male artists between the ages of 18 and 30 to create ideas relating to their own lives; and to think about how these could be dwelt upon to create their own marks or signatures. The artists are to consider emotions, inspiration, discoveries, reflections and other elements that separate each artist from the rest. The show is a representation of how they see and document themselves and their communities.

The New Signatures exhibition seeks to present contemporary art, which considers the influential role of vision and the visual in exploring new media. It will focus the spotlight on young natural talent, seeking truth beyond the visible and the tangible and to offer fresh perspectives including social modification, identity, religion, science and the role of art.

Rules:

• The artwork selection should be from the work of Zimbabwe artists that are resident in Zimbabwe or abroad.

Guidelines:

• Projects from emerging artists and practicing artists.
• Work that contributes to the ongoing dialogue about new or emerging artists’ practices within lens based arts or puts a new perspective on historical work.
• Projects that push artists’ practice in new and interesting directions.

How to Submit / Format Requirements:

Please submit your work, READY TO BE DISPLAYED. All your documents in MICROSOFT WORD FORMAT in the order and format listed below. Email the document to [email protected] with the subject: New Signatures [Name of Applicant] AND SUBMIT HARD COPY documents to Attention: Walter Ndundu, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, 20 Julius Nyerere Way, Harare, Zimbabwe and indicate: New Signatures Submission, July 2019.

Deadline for submission of work is 22^nd July 2019.

Submission:

1. Curriculum Vitae(s) and bio(s) of all artists
2. A one-page statement describing the artwork (maximum 300 words) and include value and indicate whether it is for sale or not for sale. A maximum of 2 artworks per Artist will be allowed.
3. Artist statement
4. An image of the work
5. Up to 2 videos can be submitted via CD (if work to be exhibited is a video installation)
6. A checklist for artwork/video work submitted. Include the artist name, title, year, medium and dimensions.

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