Paris Internationale 2022 - Thebe Phetogo and Monsieur Zohore

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October 18th - October 23rd, 2022
von ammon co is thrilled to announce a two-person project by Thebe Phetogo and Monsieur Zohore at Paris Internationale.  Thebe Phetogo will present six paintings, continuing his blackbody Composites series. These works involve groups of human figure in various states of dissolution and dispossession—a salient aspect of Phetogo’s painterly project, which focuses on the diffuse concept of personhood in post-colonial Southern Africa. Rendered mostly in a modeled acid green paint, the artist borrows the null backdrop of a green screen, with most of the figures in a state of digital dissolution. Phetogo carves vignettes out of each scene with sharp passages in colorful oil paint and shoe polish, which alludes specifically  to the mutual tradition of Blackface in America (minstrel show) and Africa (The Concert Party).  Ivorian-American artist Monsieur Zohore will present three new paper towel works which collapse various insoluble notions of history into multifaceted, contradictory narratives. The works on view at the fair concern dispossession through an exploration of the heist: whether that which has disappeared be a famous painting, a piece of tribal artwork, a landmark, or even one’s dignity, Zohore’s pictures exclaim their content like anachronistic tabloid pages, sending transmissions both pratfall and melancholy. Hovering above the new pictures are the debut trio of Zohore’s exploration of the piñata as a relational and ephemeral object. With each portraying an outrageous proposition of Blackness—Bill Clinton with his saxophone, Robert Downey Jr. in blackface, or porcelain-white Michael Jackson—each suspended object beckons (by nature) to be bludgeoned into disrepair to deliver its bounty: a pile of silver-wrapped candies.
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blackbody Composite (Marionette II)
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Thebe Phetogo
blackbody Composite (Marionette II), 2022
Oil, shoe polish and collage on canvas
73 1/4 x 70 7/8 in.
180 x 186 cm
TP023
 
blackbody Composite (Mosupi)
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Thebe Phetogo
blackbody Composite (Mosupi), 2022
Oil, shoe polish, cold glue and collage on canvas
47⅞ x 59⅞ in.
121.7 x 152 cm
TP020
 
blackbody Composite (auf den Kopf)
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Thebe Phetogo
blackbody Composite (auf den Kopf), 2022
Oil, shoe polish, cold glue and collage on canvas
49 7/8 x 39 7/8 in.
126.8 x 101.2 cm
TP022
 
blackbody Composite (Untitled)
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Thebe Phetogo
blackbody Composite (Untitled), 2022
Oil, shoe polish and collage on canvas
39 7/8 x 49 7/8 in.
101.4 x 126.8 cm
TP021
 
blackbody Composite (Two Fluffers)
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Thebe Phetogo
blackbody Composite (Two Fluffers), 2022
Oil, shoe polish, cold glue and collage on canvas
48⅞ x 59 in.
124 x 150 cm.
TP018
 
blackbody Composite (Setlhoa)
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Thebe Phetogo
blackbody Composite (Setlhoa), 2022
Oil, shoe polish, cold glue and collage on canvas
39 3/4 x 49 7/8 in.
101 x 126.8 cm.
TP019
 
Inside Job, 1503-2022
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Monsieur Zohore
Inside Job, 1503-2022
mixed media on canvas
23 x 20 in.
58.42 x 50.8 cm
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Monsieur Zohore CV
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Thebe Phetogo CV
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Monsieur Zohore in Bmore Art
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Monsieur Zohore in Bmore Art
Thebe Phetogo in Washington Post
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Thebe Phetogo in Washington Post
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