ART ARCHIVES - SOUTH AFRICA

 

Cyprian Mpho SHILAKOE

 

1946-1972

 

SCULPTURES and GRAPHICS

 

 

 

 


 

Cyprian Mpho SHILAKOE in 1971

(illustrated in ARTLOOK 55, Johannesburg – June, 1971 p.45 – the artist with “Silence, 1969” etching & aquatint)



 


 

 

 

Selected Exhibitions

 

 

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (solo) - 1971

 

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (Memorial Exhibition) - 27th May, 1973

 

UNISA, Pretoria (16th May to 4th June, 1991)

 

Travelling exhibition touring museums in South Africa (2007-2008):

”On the Road – Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe Revisited” shown in

Durban, Margate, Port Elizabeth, Fort Hare, Kimberley, Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg, Johannesburg, Newcastle, Empangeni

 

 


 

 

 

Selected References

 

 

“Art & Artists f South Africa” (Berman) (Balkema) (1983) – ISBN 0-86961-144-5

 

“The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors” (Ogilvie) (Read) (1988) – ISBN 0-620-12663-9

 

“The Neglected Tradition – Towards a New History of South African Art” (1930-1988) (Sack) (Johannesburg Art Gallery) (1991) – ISBN 0-620-13184-5

 

Lantern (F.E.S.T., Pretoria) – August, 1991 40:3 pp. 46/47 (ill)

 

“Images of Man – Contemporary South African Black Art and Artists” (de Jager) (Fort Hare University Press), 1992 – ISBN 1-86810-015-4

 

“Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe revisited (born 1946 - died 1972): an exhibition of paintings, prints and sculpture” - Durban Art Gallery - March 2006 to March 2008 (cat. 48 pp)

 

 “ArtTalk” Vol 7 Issue 1 2006 (“Story of a Project: Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe Revisited”) - MTN Foundation, Johannesburg (article and c.v.)

 

 “Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe revisited (born 1946 - died 1972): an exhibition of paintings, prints and sculpture: Durban Art Gallery - March 2006 to March 2008 – ill cat 96 pp

– ISBN 0620351853 (includes “Speaking with Silent Sculptures – Investigating the sculptural works of Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe” by Elizabeth Rankin (PDF©18 pp)

 

The Star, Johannesburg – 4th June, 1973

 

South African Panorama, Pretoria – July, 1975 p20 (ill)

 

Bantu, Pretoria – Dec., 1975 (ill)

 

Sowetan, Johannesburg – 25th May, 1990

 

Weekly Mail, Johannesburg – 25th to 31st May, 1990

 

East London Dispatch, East London – 2nd July, 1990

 

Beeld, Johannesburg – 14th June, 1990 and 7th July, 1990

 

New Nation, Johannesburg – 3rd to 9th August, 1990 (ill)

 

Pretoria News, Pretoria – 29th May, 1991

 

Mail & Guardian, Durban – 12th to 18th May, 2006

Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe illustrated in “Southern Africa Today” (©) – April, 1991

 

 

 


 

 

 

Selected Sculptures in wood

in public collections or on auction

Please click on the following links to view

many more sculptures by

 

 Cyprian Mpho SHILAKOE!

 

Sculptures in wood - Part I

 

Sculptures in wood - Part II

 

 

 


 

 

 

Note:

 

 

This webpage is only presenting a selection of his sculptures;

 

Cyprian’s many graphic works are covered extensively elsewhere

 

 

 


 

 

 

Updated 27th February, 2020

 

 

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