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PORTIA ZVAVAHERA
For over two decades now, artist Portia Zvavahera, who was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1985, has been creating a deeply personal and emotionally charged body of work. These works draw their inspiration from dreams, spiritual experiences, and a pictorial tradition marked, amongst other things, by Zimbabwean culture as well as religious iconography. They are characterized by their use of luminous color, complex layering of figures and patterns, and their dovetailing of different techniques – one that includes block printing and gestural painting.
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Robert Grosvenor
To mark the 70th anniversary of documenta, the Fridericianum is presenting Robert Grosvenor’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany and the first comprehensive museum presentation of his work in Europe in two decades. Born in New York in 1937, the artist, who participated in documenta in 1977 and 1987, developed…