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		<title>African Ginger to present his first-ever solo digital exhibition at USURPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 13:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USURPA is delighted to present one of South Africa’s most sensational young artists, Johannesburg-based illustrator, painter and multimedia artist Seth Pimentel, aka African Ginger, for his very first solo digital exhibition, The Pride Comes Before the Fall. &#160; Hot on the heels of his participation in USURPA’s group exhibition The New Medium, Pimental will present a collection of 12 digital portraits honouring the diversely melanated skin of persons of colour (POCs) in South Africa. &#160; Pimentel&#8217;s artistic practice revolves around pushing the limits of modern portraiture by seamlessly blending painting, drawing and digital illustration, resulting in an innovative hybrid style that embraces experimentation. In recent years, Pimental has channelled his craft into many local exhibitions, and collaborations with major international brands such as Converse, SneakerLab, Redbull and Jameson. &#160; In stark contrast to Pimental’s typically desaturated pieces, The Pride Comes Before the Fall is an exploration of colour as we’ve never seen before from the visual artist. Pimental describes the radiant colour palette of the 12 works he created for this exhibition as a ‘celebration of a new beginning’ in an experimental phase of his career. &#160; This new beginning comes as a result of what Pimental calls a conversation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new medium of fine art arrives at USURPA Gallery in Johannesburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 06:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the first fine-art physical NFT gallery in South Africa, USURPA lives up to its namesake — ‘usurp’ means to take a position of power or importance by force — by staking its claim as the bold new name in African art. &#160; On Thursday 4 May 2023, the USURPA Gallery in Riviera, Johannesburg, opened The New Medium group exhibition, a unique intersection of technology and fine art featuring twelve South African artists – Seth Pimentel, Baba Tjeko, Naledi Modupi, Sinalo Ngcaba, Mncedi Madolo, Nene Mahlangu, Mark Draws, vonMash, Oliver Pohorille, Terence Maluleke, Samurai Farai and Navel Seakamela. &#160; &#160; NFTs (non-fungible tokens, or digital assets based on blockchain technology) may not be what you associate with fine art, and yet, at its core, an NFT is just a digital certificate of ownership of art — just as you could own a one-of-a-kind physical painting such as the ‘Mona Lisa’, therefore an NFT is the ownership of a piece of digital fine art. The provenance of each work can be captured on the blockchain, and secured through individual smart codes. &#160; USURPA has taken the somewhat intimidating concept of digital art from the constraints of computer or phone screens into a [...]]]></description>
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