Relentless: Wilson Ngoni's brush on another level
Friday, March 09, 2018
Three days before his highly anticipated solo art exhibition titled Relentless at Thapong Arts Visual Centre, Art & Culture visited the painter at his studio in Kopong on the outskirts of Gaborone.
“Sorry I just woke up,” he apologies after a fist bump greeting. Inside his studio, which doubles as his bedroom, he pointed at the cause of his sleepless night. It is the painting titled Beating Around The Bush, which shows a close up image of an elephant grazing in the bush.
The chieftainship spats between Seretse and Khama’s uncles have purely degenerated into a permanent elephant in the room and it does not seem anyone cares to ensure this hurdle is dealt with promptly for the attainment of peace for GammaNgwato’s bogosi.Just as the proverbial, when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers aptly suggests, and so is the state of the institution of bogosi in GammaNgwato.Such is the case because the...