Rediscovering Southern Africa’s rock art treasures

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Rediscovering Southern Africa’s rock art treasures - Part one of a three-part story about Southern African rock art’s journey from caves to museums all over the world, its role in shaping avant garde and its return to Africa

Likeness: Artist Maria Wyersberg’s copy made at the Enanke site in the Motopos. Photo: Courtesy Frobenius InstituteBut seeing a small image on the web does not begin to match the full-sized experience.

Iziko does not have a catalogue and there is no way of knowing which copies are stored in what boxes. The copies, carefully wrapped in a roll with generous amounts of acid-free paper, were stored in no particular order. Keene highlighted one work, number one, the Ha Baroana , which is 10 metres long and 2.5 metres high. It was one of the first copies made by the expedition, and the largest, taking three months to complete.

There were long leg-like images painted really close to one another, creating movement. Elsewhere, lines of small dashes in seemingly random spaces gave similar effect. These magnificent large copies, she says, “certainly do blow the mind away. It was a great privilege to be working with these copies on a daily basis for a number of years.”

they were moved to the less damp basement of the University of Goethe building, still forgotten until we unrolled them for the first time in 2007 for digitisation.” Like the Ha Baroana, you know you are looking at a single story, the multiple, layered images, all the elements, as contrasting and different as they are, somehow contributing to a synergistic whole.

 

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