Berry Bickle (born 1959) is a Zimbabwean artist who resides in Maputo. Born in Bulawayo, Bickle attended the Chisipite Senior School in Harare. Later, she attended the Durban Institute of Technology, where she obtained a national diploma in fine arts,[1] and South Africa's Rhodes University, where she obtained a master's degree in fine arts.[1][2] Bickle was a founding member of Bulawayo's Visual Artists' Association.[3]

She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and her work explores the region's history of colonialism.[4] In 1988, she and Tapfuma Gutsa organised the Pachipamwe workshop, the first Triangle Art Trust workshop organised in Africa.[5] In 2010 she became a Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Fellow[6] and she works at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on the series Suite Europa.

Work

Berry Bickle is a multimedia artist who works in installation, video, photography, and ceramics.[7] Her works are generally installations, and are mixed media works which incorporate script; some include video and photography. Bickle has collaborated closely with the Zimbabwean ceramicist, Marjorie Wallace.[7] She has collaborated with the Peruvian artist Adrian Velasquez. The exhibition and the publication Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art[8] highlight the presence of texts in Bickle's work and the importance of the act of writing and of collecting words; in this frame, the artist labels her work "Re-Writes".[9]

  • "Maputo Utopias" series.[10]
  • Suite Europa, 2010. The series was 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. In 2011, Bickle represented Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennale, at the time a rare appearance for an African nation.[11] The Zimbabwean Pavilion, which was curated by Raphael Chikukwa, was titled "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]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b 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 (21 February 2000). 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. 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b [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. ^ a b c Meldrum, Andrew (3 June 2011). "Zimbabwean artists featured at Venice Biennale - Zimbabwean paintings, videos, sculpture and photos displayed in Venice festival". Global Post.
  12. ^ WICKOUSKI, Sheila (24 February 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

  • 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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