David Phaswane Mogano was born in Pietersburg South Africa in 1932. He received his education at Mogano Higher Primary School in Pietersburg. He arrived in Johannesburg during the early 1950’s, where he began work as a cook in a hotel.

In 1959, David Mogano trained under Sydney Kumalo and Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Centre. An ingenious ability to draw, together with a unique personal presentation of perspective, led to exclusive works in watercolour, a technique easily mastered. Detailed graphic depictions of people, their physical environments and social criticisms, allowed an injection of humour through his integration of African tradition and Western modes dress and dwellings.
 

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Phaswane David Mogano

A summery of D P Mogano's achievements.

Phaswane Mogano exhibited annually at ‘Artists under the Sun’ in Joubert Park, as well as the Peter Sibeko Art Gallery in Johannesburg. Renowned were his vivid, quasi-naturalistic narratives of township life and mannered explorations of ancestral Africa.


Exhibitions:

1970 - Gallery Elysia - JHB
            Gallery Michelangelo, Johannesburg (group).
1971 - Gallery 101
1972 - Triad Gallery - JHB
            Foundation for Creative Art Gallery, Johannesburg
            Gallery 21
            Gallery 101
1973 - Triad Gallery - JHB
1975 - Group 51 - Winter Art Exhibition
            Madden Galleries - JHB
1982 - National Museum and Art Gallery - Gaborone, Botswana
1983 - Gallery 21 - Watercolours Now and Then
1985 - FUBA
1986 - Gallery 21


Collections:

Afri-Karner Museum Trust
Campbell Smith Collection
Coca-Cola Company – Mexico
De Beers Centenary Art Gallery
ISM Pelmama Permanent Collection
MuseumAfrica – JHB
Putco LTD – JHB
University of Fort Hare

 

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