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Special Thanks VISUAL ARTS

NJABULO DLADLA CONCEPTUAL ARTS

JOSEF ISAIAH KEYES KIM BARENDSE MIXED MEDIA/COLLAGE ARTS

VEERLE SYMOENS RACHEL DIXON SKETCH ARTS

NJABULO MNGWENGWE

MERCEDEZ DLIKILILI CREATIVE DIRECTOR

LINDO MSIBI CURATORS

ASANDE KUBONE NJABULO DLADLA KIM BARENDSE

ARTS WELCOME TO OUR FIRST EVER MAZEMAG ZINE. AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW; MAZEMAG IS AN ONLINE PUBLICA-TION IN WHICH FOCUSES ON THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE FASHION, MUSIC AND ARTS INDUSTRIES. ARTS HAS A HUGE IMPACT AND INFLUENCE WITHIN OTHER CREATIVE SPACES AND INDUSTRIES. IN THIS VERY FIRST ARTS ZINE; WE ARE FOCUSING ON THE VISUAL ARTS INDUSTRY AND THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ART MOVEMENTS IN THE VISUAL ARTS INDUSTRY. HERE’S AN ARTS ZINE TO ENJOY DURING THESE TRYING TIMES. WE HOPE YOU’RE KEEPING SAFE AND STAYING AT HOME AS WE ARE FACING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.THANK YOU FOR READING OUR MAZEMAG ZINE. UNTIL NEXT ZINE.

Mercedez Editor In Chief

VISUAL ARTS

VISUAL ART IS A GENRE WITHIN ART WHICH CONSISTS OF FORMATS THAT ARE PERCEIVED AND EXPERIENCED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH OCULAR INSPECTION. THESE INCLUDE SEVERAL DISCIPLINES SUCH AS PAINTING, DRAWING, PRINTMAKING, SCULPTURE, CERAMICS, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO, FILMMAKING, DESIGN, CRAFTS, AND ARCHITECTURE. PRIOR TO THE 20TH CENTURY, IT WAS ONLY THE CREATORS WORKING WITHIN THE FINE ARTS WHO WERE GRANTED THE TITLE OF ‘ARTIST’ AS MANY ART SCHOOLS ACROSS EUROPE MAINTAINED THE STRICT RULE THAT A CRAFTSPERSON COULD NOT BE DEEMED A PRACTITIONER OF THE ARTS. IN THE WESTERN REGIONS AND EAST ASIAN REGIONS, PAINTING HAS BEEN PERCEIVED AS THE HIGHER DEGREE OF THE ARTISTS' IMAGINATION WHEREAS IN CHINESE ART, ‘SCHOLAR PAINTING’ WAS CONSIDERED OF SUPERIOR CALIBRE.

Contemporary Arts Jean–Michel Basquiat (22 December 1960- 12 August 1988)

Contemporaryart is the art of the present, which is globally influenced, culturally diverse

and

technologically

advanced.

Such

art

composes

of

elements

that

challenge boundaries that were well underway in the 20th century. Contemporary art is distinguished by the lack of uniform and organising people. Artists began to create and experiment more reflective realities of their own vision than what nature could offer, due to the 20th century opening new vistas and possibilities. Thus, an explosion of trends created different dimensions of art for artists to explore. Here are some of the movements that defined and shaped art in the 20th century and which still influence the art being produced currently: Expressionism, fauvism, cubism, Dadaism, surrealism, abstract expression, pop art, postmodernism 21st-century art has intriguing topics that inspire new thinking and has gained grounds, making it an incredibly dynamic field of study. Art of the 21stcentury re-envisions to express the processes and materials of the past considering the primary elements such as handicrafts. In addition to that, it emerges from a vast variety of materials and means.

ALL COLORED CAST (PART III) 1982, Neo-Expressionism 21.1 X 15 CM

JOSEF ISAIAH KEYES WASHINGTON DC, USA

IG: @JISAIAHK

Art in simple terms, I wandered into. Art and a marriage to curiosity, I will continue to explore many art movements within my likes.

But I started with photography and venture into drawing/ from there studying and learning my own language/style. Which people would consider or call my work Abstract/Figurative art. I choose to combine many of these "movements", or techniques. I think Art, in general has evolved. Simply because people will continue to.

ARTWORK •Miss Universe, 2020 •Digital Art •A piece made of collaged facial features. The meaning simply being that of beauty and playfulness.

This is ultimately the foundation of my work.

MISS UNIVERSE, 2020

The Father Of Conceptualism: Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) Marcel Duchamp a Frenchman became known as the Father of Conceptualism because of his work ´The Fountain’. ‘The Fountain’ a porcelain urinal bought at a plumbing specialist store placed upside down and signed with his pseudonym ´R.Mutt 1917´ has now become a work of art due to these actions, at least in Duchamp’s mind. What started out as a prank he wanted to play to upset the stuffy art world had now turned into a new form of sculpture that he named “readymades”: a sculpture that was already made. He believed this new form of sculpture to be one where the artist could choose any readymade object in mass production, with no aesthetic value and by freeing it from it’s original functional purpose and changing it’s context and angle then turns it into an artwork. Duchamp changed three held perspectives by continuing to produce readymade sculptures: firstly, he wanted to shift the responsibility of who constituted what art was back to the artists instead of seeing it as the role of critics and academics who weren’t artists themselves; secondly, he wanted the artist to start working from an idea first instead of the medium dictating to the artist how to go about making a work of art and thirdly, he wanted to debunk the idea that artists were some kind of special human breed with an elevated status, he wanted artists to take themselves less seriously.

FOUNTAIN 1917, Sculpture by Marcel Duchamp

KIM BARENDSE EAST LONDON, RSA

IG: @KIM_IS_PLUR

‘Khwezi’ is a mixed media piece created by making distorted copies of the pages of the book in a similar fashion that the world seems to distort the narrative of the woman. The bold marks across the canvas depict the power struggles between the two sexes and the unintentional way the distorted pages ended up looking like a body added to the momentum of the subject I was exploring. The piece explores the grappling of women to be viewed as equal and for them to have autonomy over their own bodies, for them to be viewed as human without equating their humanness with weakness.

ARTWORK •Khwezi •Conceptualism

KHWEZI

DADAISM: MIXED MEDIA/ COLLAGE Raoul Hausman- Dadaism, Collage and Writer (12 July 1886- 1 February 1971)

Mixed

media

is

a

term

used

to

describe

artworks

composed

from

various

combinations of different art styles, materials or even movements. Artists such as Johannes

Theodore

Baargeld

and

RAOUL

HAUSMANN

infused

photography

and

collage mediums into the Dadaism movement.

RAUOL

HAUSMANN

was

an

Austrian

writer

and

poet

who

experimented

with

photography to produced collage artistry. Hausmann would also further explore mixed media through sound poetry. He was one of the key figures in Berum Dada.

Dadaism is a movement that was founded during the First World War by artists that rejected the traditional values in the arts industry and to create a new art. “ABCD”

by Hausmann is a typical example of Dada collage which he described as “poster poem”.

ABCD 1920 COLLAGE 15.1 X 10.1 CM

VEERLE SYMOENS ANTWERP – BELGIUM

IG: @VEERLESYMOENS

Half human, half animal! This collage is a collaboration between the cutest Spanish rescue dog 'Moka' and myself. For about 2,5 years I lived partly in Belgium and in Spain. But when my relationship ended with my Spanish partner, I came to live permanent in Antwerp (Belgium) again. I felt heart broken. I missed my second home and I missed my sweet dog 'Moka' who stayed to live in Spain, where he could enjoy a lot of nature.Moka loved to help me create collages and to tear up all sorts of pieces from magazines with his paws and with his mouth. I took all these colorful pieces with me to Belgium and glued them together into new intuitive art works. They are signed with both our names. It helped me in the missing process. But it’s also a way of expressing and experiencing limitless creativity.

When you’re open to it, even your dog can help with your creations‘.

HALF HUMAN, HALF ANIMAL! Framed collage on paper: 50x40cm

RACHEL DIXON OXFORD, UK

IG: @MONKEY_ON_THE_STREETS

I started my Instagram page, @monkey_on_the_street, as a place to share my street photography. The collage part started after I got a book for my son on Dada art. We started making collages out of old magazines - just putting together whatever made us laugh and I just carried on. The street came back into it as I started finding things (rubbish) on the street that inspired my collage. That's how I work - an image or a piece of rubbish inspires me and I start from there. Then ideas just come into my head. Then I take it back to the street by leaving my work around in Oxford and London for people to find. It's great when 'finders' get in touch to say they enjoyed their find. Inspiration is everywhere.

ARTWORK •Me Not Like Guns •Collage Art ‘

ME NOT LIKE GUNS

HISTORY OF SKETCH: DRAWING Leonardo da Vinci- High Renaissance, Sketch (15 April 1452- 2 May 1519)

A

sketch a rapidly executed freehand drawing not intended to be completed. A

sketch may serve a number of purposes- it might record something an artist has seen or an idea an artist may have. Sketches can be executed using any medium or took. From pencil, to charcoal to chalk and even now digitally.

LEONARDO da VINCI made a huge influence in the arts industry, not only as a painter, but as a sketch artist. He liked to use a red chalk called sanguine for many pf his drawings. He also used black chalk or a combination of the two. In da Vinci’s time; pencil was not yet invented therefore the use of chalk and charcoal was more effective.

STUDY OF HANDS 1474; ON PAPER 21.1 X 15 CM

NJABULO MNGWENGWE DURBAN, RSA

IG: @KHIMBART_MIYAMOTO This art piece is inspired by the feeling I always feel when sitting on my chair- like another part of me is flying and leaving me slowly; but I breathe or move it stops. I’m sure you’ve felt that too; like you’re going slowly but you’re not.

ARTWORK •You two in You •Sketch, A$‘

YOU IN TWO YOU Sketch, A4

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