MARIO SOARES - LISTEN TO THE ELDERS

MARIO SOARES (MOZAMBIQUE)

'ESCUTAR OS MAIS VELHOS'

2016

ETCHING ON DECKLE EDGE FABRIANO PAPER

PRINT STUDIO EMBOSSED CHOP ON PAPER LOWER RIGHT

SHEET SIZE : 70CM X 50CM

EDITION : /15 

HAND SIGNED, TITLED & NUMBERED BY ARTIST

UNFRAMED

WE HAVE SEVERAL OTHER AVAILABLE ARTWORKS BY THIS ARTIST

Mario Soares left Mozambique for South Africa in 2008. He worked as an artist/embroiderer for Boitumelo in Hillbrow. Soares graduated in Art in 2013 and proceeded to develop his skill in etching through a constant and intense process of discovery and experimentation. He works primarily in etching on steel plates and uses the metaphor of the road to describe the process of growing up, travel and migration. Faceless and apparently identity-less subjects give voice to the ways in which immigrants seek to make themselves invisible in their new home country, fearful of entrenched xenophobia. He has been part of numerous solo group exhibitions and art fairs both in Johannesburg (Turbine Art Fair) and in Cape Town.

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