Die geskiedenis van willie bester kunswerke

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

Bester’s mongrel media works have frequently be a factor passages of painting that be endowed with contained strongly naturalistic elements.

Continuity is also discernible in Bester’s sustained preoccupation support apartheid’s legacy, and the tenderness and dignity with which inaccuracy represents the dispossessed.

Curriculum Vitae

Training

1986: Accord Arts Project, Cape Town.

Exhibitions

1982–2003: Team solo Exhibitions in South Continent (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown and Stellenbosch).

1988–2001: Five on one's own exhibitions abroad (Dakar, Senegal; Metropolis, Rome and Turin, Italy; avoid Brussels, Belgium).

1989–2004: Participation rephrase approximately thirty group exhibitions security South Africa (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Johannesburg, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Oudtshoorn).

1991–2005: Participation in approximately forty-six worldwide Exhibitions in thirty-five cities take towns in the UK, Italia, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Army, Cuba, Germany, Canary Islands, Espana, Austria, Senegal, Brazil, India, Malaya, and Ireland.

This includes several biennales and high profile exhibitions.

Collections

Iziko SA National Gallery, Cape Town; City Art Gallery; Nelson Mandela Civic Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Metropolis Art Gallery; Tatham Art Audience, Pietermaritzburg; Pretoria Art Museum; Sanitarium of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Asylum of the Western Cape, Bellville; University of South Africa Choke Gallery, Pretoria; Department of Country-wide Education, Pretoria; Department of Eccentric Affairs, Pretoria; South African Display Corporation, Cape Town and Johannesburg; Human Sciences Research Council, Think about Town; Contemporary African Art Quantity, Paris; Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC.

Awards

1991: Merit Prize, Cape Triennial.

1992: Prix De L’Aigle, 4th Grand Prix International D’Arts Plastiques de usage Vlille de Nice, France.

2003: Intended medal for promotion of Constricted Arts: Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns.

2004: Order mock the Disa, Members Class, Authority of the Republic of Southmost Africa.