South African Art Gallery Manager Ruzy Rusike On The Legacy of Apartheid In The Art World
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- I interviewed Ruzy Rusike, manager of Melrose Arch Art Gallery, while I was in Johannesburg. Sista Ruzy pointed out that most of the art galleries in South Africa are mzungu owned. She stated that they're seeking to change that and Pan Africanism in the art world can change a vital form of expression.
What a beautiful sister, and those braids! braids! told you folks nothing like a sister in braid or natural hair.
Nothing like getting ya fingas all tangled up in that pubic mess y'all call hair 😆
I love the vibrant colors African artist use in their painting that give them life.
Awesome work Phil!!! The collaboration and unity is our key to owning our success!!!
This is so interesting on sooo many levels. Yes, there are a lot of opportunities for African Americans here in SA. Joburg is the domain of the black middle and upper class in SA if not the continent and there's a lot of upward mobility. We need more of everything like in the area of art, creative arts etc. Someone should come open a soul food restaurant, bring some AA cultural products and services here. 28 years after our emancipation we've accomplished much but there's so much more to be achieved.
What have you accomplished....3rd world.... 😆
Bigup..this sista is on another level mentally..🙏🏿
she definitely is, and is so beautiful ❤
I’m ready Phil to get behind anything that you want to do too help our brothers and sisters in South Africa especially because a lot of my ancestors came from Lemba Land.
We appreciate what you doing bru, this are exciting times and opportunities exist for African Americans to collaborate with Africans and develop their product and exploit operational synergies with a vision to create a uniquely African Art gallery.
Art is beautiful. Coincidentally I just had a random conversation with my daughter this morning about Picasso. She was drawing something beautiful, so I innocently said: you are the next Picasso. She was like no no no I don’t wanna be no Picasso. He was a cruel person and he’s wasn’t an innovator! She told me how we need to embrace paints like the aboriginal or African painting which were the pioneers of colorful painting
So proud of you and your work brother. Let's keep black unity across the globe going.
Awesome stuff. Hopefully one day she will own the gallery or open her own shop 💯😊
Beautiful!!!!
7:39 I love that 'make sure you are the author of your story'...
Omg I wanna gooooo sooooo bad
Brilliant🙏
Awesome! Great work
Awesome work
Funny how some of those paintings can make you hear African music by just looking at it
I heard Jazz, blues and South African Jive music from the late 60s and 70s in Sophiatown .... 🎶🎼🎷🎸🎤🎺🥁
Our Old music was influenced by AA music by the way, from the dress code to the music, we just "South Africanised" to fit to our culture and way of life
1:22 I am glad to hear that Phil because I am working on a piece for you as we speak 🗣️...
Go Ruzy..excellent
2:11 I love Good Times, they actually play the reruns daily in Chicago...
Beautiful
2:37 Wow I am an artist here in America and I never would have thought it would be as difficult for black artists in Africa as it is here...
Art is extremely powerful and can be used to bring about awareness to certain issues and therefore causing change to occur.
I was watching a young black artist speaking about art and why the only black artist that most black people know of is Basquiat. There is great debate about whether Basquiat's work is as great as people believe it to be??? And why his work was considered to be so valuable (I personally love Basquiat, not necessarily for his art, but for the socal change he was trying to make through his art 🎨...)
But in that video, the guy was talking about how only a small percentage of black art is even let through the doors in these museums and much like the music industry (cus I as well was a female/political rapper), they only display certain (white washed approved artwork) to be displayed in these museums, therefore causing the socially awake artists to put out the same ol same stereo typical black art 🎨 just to be seen...)
For example myself, my art and music focuses on the affects of mass incarceration etc, but for my art to get seen, I basically got to drop my messages...
Another great reason we need black people in these museums, is to give black artist opportunities we otherwise would never see...
I'm 42, I was an extremely gifted child that started drawing at age 9 and realistically at age 11, as great as my skill level is, I have never been displayed in a gallery, except for small artist submissions, and even then i was displayed all the way in the back of the museum...
Great video! It was informative and inspiring.
Love This!!
Ruzy is well equipped.
👍👍
3:52 Beautiful❤❤❤!!!
Dynamite 💥 💥 💥
Beautiful art ❤️🖤💚💛
Beautiful!!!! Are these paintings are for sale online? If so what is the website? But I’m not understanding why we always have to invert White ppl into black culture
Am still Struggle to get my art in to gallerys in Southafrica can some one help me
Email Sista Ruzy. Her email is in the video toward the end
Thank you
Yeah get a real job 😆
5:49 Exactly, basically I know without a shadow of a doubt if I was a white woman, my art would be everywhere...
7:02 Okay yes Phil let's get to the meat and potatoes!!!
Nice vedio you are doing good job,I have travel all over the africa, Angola millions of west africans are living there nice country and guinea equtoryal,Gabon nice,but humble people in africa you can leave with them no problem are West africans they are wise more than any african countries.am from central africa.only two tribes are in nigeria they are not good and they are greedy people and they exposed nigeria to all over the world about the bad thing.east africans they like white people too much like kenya Uganda.ethopians and Somalians when they reach outside like usa they start receiving social and refuge money they are very easy to call themselves like arabes and others
7:28 And that's the one thing that our community hates to do, callaborate with other black artists, they don't mind collaborating with other nationalities, but never their own (its that token mindset)...
And if you do have any artists out there making it, they wouldn't dare bring the next artist in because they feel like it would take their shine away...
Not knowing really the only way for us to make it, is for all of us to make it!!!
Also most, I'm not saying all, but most of our people do not support black artists, and not even when they're in our own families. We refused to support them, that is until they have made it far enough by themselves and it gets too the point that they just might make it, then we want to jump aboard...
10 percent?! Last I heard was 7. Them suckers trying to creep up on a come up
Haven't seen vid...S. Africa now 3rd world. Wish I could live in Haiti, Jamaica, Rhodesia, congo, any cities in US... y'all sure know how to maintain a civil society....not 😆
1:18 Me too!!! I actually am an artist as well. I'm a Legally Blind African American Artist 🦯🦮 🎨...
And one of the most discouraging things, and one of the things that makes most artists quit art, is the lack of support...
Good you are taking us to see these artists because art that no one sees is pretty much pointless...