Lovell Gallery
Hosting in Cape Town

The Lovell Gallery is delighted to be hosting the prestigious MOP5 Spring Auction which is guaranteed to be a lively event, with a range of excellent quality artworks from top photographers up for sale.

Sulger-Buel Lovell is positioned as part of a new approach in understanding the trajectories of contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora. It focuses on the challenges that artists are confronting in their urban environments, where art is a configuration of regional, intercontinental and global ideas and practices. Christian is a trusted advisor with an extensive international network, and 35 year experience collecting African art. Tamzin is an experienced gallerist, a strategist with degrees in art and science, and a passion for growing artists and business. Our belief is that the socio-cultural and economic transformations of Africa can be better understood through the analysis and interpretation of cutting-edge art. Furthermore, contemporary art in Africa is relevant in understanding the broader socio-political context of the continent. Sulger-Buel Lovell offers a strategic partnership approach with artists, and a highly individual approach to collectors. The gallery assists existing and new collectors to understand and collect from this emerging market, while developing a selection of outstanding artists. The gallery is committed to long-term relationships with represented artists as well as with collectors. A new exhibition gathers rarely seen works by leading Congolese artist Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu, who depicted the country’s brutal colonial past, the fight for independence and later struggles for power. Using techniques of poster painting, street art and advertising signage in their work, a style that has now been embraced by many contemporary artists from across the continent, the Zaire School were clear that their paintings were for local people. (Students protest in Lubumbashi)Born in 1947 in Élisabethville (now Lubumbashi), Kanda-Matulu began painting in the 1960s. He became the main figure of the artistic movement that dealt boldly with the themes of ancestral origins, colonial history, the fight for independence, and post-colonial struggles for power. Located in Lubumbashi, it once dominated the local landscape and became a powerful symbol of the excesses of colonialism for many of the painters of the period.