INXS: Never Before Seen Major Works by Simphiwe Ndzube, Moffat Takadiwa, Zhou Yilun

Los Angeles

Simphiwe Ndzube / Moffat Takadiwa / Zhou Yilun

April 4 – May 23, 2020

Simphiwe Ndzube Painting The Alligator Rider Nicodim Bhekizwe INXS Major LACMA

Simphiwe Ndzube
Bhekizwe, The Alligator Rider, 2020
acrylic, collage, duct tape, and fabric on canvas
59 x 102.25 x 2.5 in
150 x 260 x 6.5 cm

Simphiwe Ndzube
I've Been Mistaken as a Mountain, 2019
acrylic, artificial braids, collage, duct tape, and fabric on canvas
59 x 118 x 8 in
150 x 300 x 20 cm

Simphiwe Ndzube
I've Been Mistaken as a Mountain, 2019
(detail view)

Simphiwe Ndzube
Goldie, 2019
mixed media, collage and acrylic on linen
78.75 x 78.75 in
200 x 200 cm

Simphiwe Ndzube
Goldie, 2019
(detail view)

Simphiwe Ndzube
Goldie, 2019
(detail view)

Simphiwe Ndzube
Goldie, 2019
(scale view)

Simphiwe Ndzube
Amajita agangayo, 2019
collage, duct tape, and acrylic on canvas
59 x 43.5 x 2 in
150 x 110.5 x 5 cm

Simphiwe Ndzube
Amajita agangayo, 2019
(detail view)

Simphiwe Ndzube
Dondolo, 2019
collage, duct tape, and acrylic on canvas
59 x 43.5 x 2 in
150 x 110.5 x 5 cm

Simphiwe Ndzube
Dondolo, 2019
(scale view)

Simphiwe Ndzube
Untitled Portrait, 2020
acrylic on canvas
31.5 x 27.5 inches
80 x 69.85 cm
 

Moffat Takadiwa Sculpture Art Nicodim Sale

Moffat Takadiwa
The Twins, 2020
found keyboard keys, toothbrushes
138 x 75 x 11 in
​350 x 190 x 28 cm

Moffat Takadiwa
The Twins, 2020
(scale view)

Moffat Takadiwa
Number 8, 2020
found bottle caps, foil caps, aerosol tops, and keyboard keys
116 x 58 x 3.5 in
295 x 148 x 9 cm

Moffat Takadiwa
Number 8, 2020
(detail view)

Moffat Takadiwa
Number 8, 2020
(detail view)

Moffat Takadiwa
Number 8, 2020
(scale view)

Moffat Takadiwa
The Towering Twins, 2020
found bottle caps, alcohol bottle caps, aerosol bottle tops, and detergent bottle caps
111 x 59 x 3.5 in
​282 x 150 x 9 cm

Moffat Takadiwa
The Towering Twins, 2020
(detail view)

Moffat Takadiwa
The Towering Twins, 2020
(detail view)

Moffat Takadiwa
The Towering Twins, 2020
(scale view)

Moffat Takadiwa
Red Robot, 2020
found keyboard keys, bottle caps, and toothbrush heads
94 x 46 x 6 in
238.75 x 116.75 x 15.25 cm

Moffat Takadiwa
Red Robot, 2020
(detail view)

Moffat Takadiwa
Red Robot, 2020
(detail view)

Moffat Takadiwa
Red Robot, 2020
(scale view)

Zhou Yilun
Kobe, 2016
oil, spray paint, collage, glasses, and gloves on canvas
55.25 x 102 in
​140 x 259 cm

Zhou Yilun
Kobe, 2016
(detail view)

Zhou Yilun
Kobe, 2016
(detail view)

Zhou Yilun
Kobe, 2016
(scale view)

Zhou Yilun
Son, 2018
acrylic, spray paint, marker on canvas
108.25 x 82.75 in
275 x 210 cm

Zhou Yilun
Son, 2018
(detail view)

Zhou Yilun
Son, 2018
(scale view)

Zhou Yilun
Blue Ball, 2018
oil, spray paint, resin on canvas
98.5 x 98.5 in
250 x 250 cm

Zhou Yilun
Blue Ball, 2018
(detail view)

Zhou Yilun
Blue Ball, 2018
(detail view)

Press Release

See the Online Viewing Room Here

 

In 1978, Gary Morris, then-manager of Midnight Oil, approached an unknown band called The Vegetables about a change of direction: they’d give up sex, drugs, and alcohol, devote their lives and music to God Almighty and become rock-and-roll parisioners, prosthelytizing in His name from arena to arena, stadium to stadium. They’d be so pious, so free from sin, so inaccessible that they’d perform in cages suspended above the audience. No one could possibly corrupt them even if temptations arose. He’d call them INXS. 

 

Michael Hutchence, singer of The Vegetables, liked the name but nothing else of Morris’s plan, and you’ve heard about the rest in the tabloids.

 

In 2020, Nicodim Gallery will resurrect a more-perfect version of Morris’s vision for a different “band” in a different world. Artists Simphiwe Ndzube, Moffat Takadiwa, and Zhou Yilun have each released major, never before seen works that are so moving, so autoerotic, that—for the safety of the public—they are installed, locked away from the citizenry, sealed within the gallery, disinfected, and only viewable online. The gallery is thrilled to share this safe, online experience in such trying times, and sincerely hopes it provides sanctuary and salvation in the face of the pandemic.

 

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Simphiwe Ndzube (b. 1990, Cape Town, South Africa) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and Cape Town, South Africa. He received his BFA from the Michaelis School of Fine Arts in 2015. Ndzube’s work is characterised by a fundamental interplay between objects, media and two-dimensional surfaces; stitching together a subjective account of the black experience in post-apartheid South Africa from a mythological persepective. Recent exhibitions include Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Nicodim, Jeffrey Deitch, and AUTRE Magazine, Los Angeles, USA (2020); Where Water Comes Together With Other Water, The 15th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France (2019); People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA (2019); Uncharted Lands and Trackless Seas, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2019, solo); Trans World, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania (2019); New Acquisitions, the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA (2018); Hacer Noche, Oaxaca, Mexico (2018); NOISE!, The Frans Hals Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2018); Waiting for Mulungu, The CC Foundation, Shanghai, China (2018, solo); Bharbarosi, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2017, solo); and Becoming, WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, South Africa (2016, solo).

Moffat Takadiwa (b. 1983, Karol, Zimbabwe) lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe in the neighborhood of Mbare, one of the biggest hotspots for the recycling and repurposing microeconomy in the country. For years, Takadiwa has been utilizing his practice with a focus on rehabilitating his community, promoting an urban development project with the goal of establishing a community-oriented arts district. Working with local upcoming young artists and young creatives, Takadiwa aims to create the world’s first arts district made of reused and repurposed materials. Takadiwa graduated with a BA Honours from Harare Polytechnic College, Zimbabwe in 2008. Part of the post-independence generation of artists in Zimbabwe, Takadiwa has exhibited extensively across major institutions in Zimbabwe as well as internationally. Recent exhibitions include thread., Long Beach Museum of Art, USA (2019–20); The Extreme Present, Jeffrey Deitch and Gagosian, Miami, USA (2019); Stormy Weather, Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands (2019); Second Hand, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2019); KUBATANA, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Oslo, Norway (2019); Ex Africa—storie e identità di un’arte universale, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy (2019); The Eye Sees Not Itself, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2018); De Nature en Sculpture, Villa Datris Foundation, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (2017); and Say Hello to English, Tyburn Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2017, solo).

 

Zhou Yilun (b. 1983, Hangzhou, China) lives and works in Hangzhou. Zhou graduated in 2006 from the oil painting department at China Academy of Art. His works are formed from a bricolage of identity, as he lifts and distorts techniques inherited from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic eras—revisiting, perverting, and parodying their ideas for the new globalist regime. He has recently exhibited at the KWM artcenter in Beijing, China (2018), appearing in The Post Southern Song Dynasty, an exhibition of works featuring the Martin Goya Business artist collective. Other recent exhibitions include Zhou Yilun: Q.S.K.T., Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland (2020, solo); Zhou Yilun: Ornament and Crime, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2019, solo); After Sunset, Galeria Liusa Wang, Paris, France (2018); Parallel Times, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China (2017); The Monkey On Horseback, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania (2016, solo); Zhou Yilun, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2015, solo); GO█DFINDER, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China (2015, solo); and My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA; Orange County; Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA (2015).