Meeting Mustafa Maluka
Post date Thu 22 Apr 2010 7:07 PM
N Y C 2 0 0 9 U P D A T E
I saw Artist Mustafa Maluka's work during "the My Space years" and immediately felt that they were appeling to my taste, there was this Pop Art feel with an every-day documentary touch, ecclectic like the people outta South Africa themselves - the country where he's originally from.
When I was in NYC in the end of -09, Mustafa had an exhibition at TILTON GALLERY and we finally got to meet IRL. After inspecting the massive, colorfull paintings, much bigger than I expected, we had a great lunch where topics concerning South Africa, Sweden, and urban life in any Big City 2010 were addressed. South Africa is an interessting and complex country, it has major possibilties in many ways but is yet a land so damaged that Mustafa said he had a hard time seeing a future there.
Add Cultural Analyst/Ethical Hacker/Global Citizen/PhD Dropout to Artist, and then i would like to incorporate a 2FACED1, with the feet in different worlds and that flexibility and broader perspective that comes with it... you know, a two-faced one. Hope to see you in Stockholm soon Mr.!
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