CAPITAL: The Voice of Business Issue 1, 2015 | Page 16

COVER ARTIST
a sharp stone made a hole in the side,
rendering it useless for containing water.
But the pot’s musical sound was discovered,
and it became a ritualistic object with its
own expressive voice.
For Gigaba, the round hole and the
original storage purpose of the Udu evoke
the piggy bank, and ideas of saving money
and investing. A deposit slot has been a
common feature of all his recent works,
and he has developed this idea to include
more personal and metaphoric types of
saving and investment. By pouring his
ideas, experiences and memories into the
creation of his works, Gigaba is in effect
depositing them into the “piggy bank” as
,
one would money.
Gigaba’s vessels open up the possibility
of storing and treasuring ideas, experiences
and memories, not simply money or
objects of value.
Gigaba’s work can be found in museum
and gallery collections in China and the
USA, and locally in the Tatham Art Gallery’s
permanent collection. He was an Absa
L’Atelier Art Awards finalist in 2011, and
has exhibited widely abroad and in South
Africa, including at the William Humphreys
Art Gallery in Kimberley, the KZNSA gallery
and African Art Centre in Durban, and
ArtSpace in Johannesburg.

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