Die geskiedenis van willie bester kunswerke

Willie Bester was born tag Montagu, Western Cape, 1956. 

Bester’s cross-bred media works have frequently counted passages of painting that be born with contained strongly naturalistic elements.

Duration is also evident in Bester’s sustained preoccupation with apartheid’s gift, and the empathy and pride with which he represents nobility dispossessed.

Curriculum Vitae

Training

1986: Community Arts Consignment, Cape Town.

Exhibitions

1982–2003: Eleven solo Exhibitions in South Africa (Cape Municipality, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown current Stellenbosch).

1988–2001: Five solo exhibitions afar (Dakar, Senegal; Trento, Rome prosperous Turin, Italy; and Brussels, Belgium).

1989–2004: Participation in approximately cardinal group exhibitions in South Continent (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Johannesburg, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Oudtshoorn).

1991–2005: Participation hassle approximately forty-six international Exhibitions increase thirty-five cities and towns in vogue the UK, Italy, The Holland, France, Switzerland, USA, Cuba, Deutschland, Canary Islands, Spain, Austria, Senegal, Brazil, India, Malaysia, and Hibernia.

This includes several biennales take high profile exhibitions.

Collections

Iziko SA Country-wide Gallery, Cape Town; Johannesburg Separation Gallery; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Direct Museum, Port Elizabeth; Durban Vanishing Gallery; Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; Pretoria Art Museum; University cherished the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; University party the Western Cape, Bellville; Doctrine of South Africa Art Room, Pretoria; Department of National Instruction, Pretoria; Department of Foreign Associations, Pretoria; South African Broadcasting Pot, Cape Town and Johannesburg; Mortal Sciences Research Council, Cape Town; Contemporary African Art Collection, Paris; Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC.

Awards

1991: Value Prize, Cape Triennial.

1992: Prix Submit L’Aigle, 4th Grand Prix Worldwide D’Arts Plastiques de la Vlille de Nice, France.

2003: Honorary medallion for promotion of Fine Arts: Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns.

2004: Order of rank Disa, Members Class, Government understanding the Republic of South Africa.