SOF OMAR CAVES - Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
SOF OMAR CAVES – Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
Sof Omar Caves was one of the first “attractions” I visited during my expedition to Ethiopia. Labyrinth of caves is stretching some more than 15 km but only first couple of hundred meter are accessible to public.
Sof Omar Cave is the longest cave system in Ethiopia at 15.1 kilometres (9.4 mi) long; sources claim it is the longest system of caves in Africa. It is situated to the east of Robe, in the Bale Zone of the Oromia Region in south-eastern Ethiopia, through which the Weyib River (Gestro River) flows.
Approaching from Goro, at Sof Omar the scrubby bush steeply drops 90 m into a canyon. The Web river makes its way from the 4,300 metres (14,100 ft.) high Bale Mountains through a 150 kilometres (93 mi) wide outcrop of Anatole limestone to the cave. The cave is formed along a network of joints: one set runs approximately north to south and the other east to west. This zig-zag of passages runs in an approximately south-easterly direction.
Sof Omar has 42 entrances, but generally only four are useful for gaining entrance.
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Jiri
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TOP ARTWORKS - MARGARET MAJO' S EXHIBITION
MARGARET MAJO
TOP ARTWORKS
Personal Exhibition / Mostra Personale
09/12/2012 - 24/02/2013
Red Stamp Art Gallery, Rusland 22, 1012 CL Amsterdam
In December 2012 Margaret Majo has taken part and has been awarded, together with artist John Goba, like winner of BI.MA. 4 Prize, Fourth International Contemporary Art Biennial in Malindi (Kenya), curated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
Nel Dicembre 2012 Margaret Majo ha preso parte ed e' stata premiata, insieme all'artista John Goba, come vincitrice del Premio BI.MA. 4, Quarta Biennale Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea in Malindi (Kenya), curata da achille Bonito Oliva.
Red Stamp Art Gallery, in collaboration with Sarenco Foundation, presents for the first time in the Netherlands the exhibition of Margaret Majo, a leading contemporary African artist, born in 1956 in Zimbabwe (Murewa) where she lives and works (Harare). After training in the Chinembiri Training Centre in Mbare, where she learned skills and income-generating activities, Margaret Majo studied design and illustration at the Harare Polytechnic. In 1991 Margaret was selected to exhibit at the Zimbabwe Heritage Exhibitions in the National Gallery, continuing since then to show in international galleries , including the Haus des Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Zak Gallery in Furth and the Pyramid in Nuremberg.
In 2012, together with the artist John Goba from Sierra Leone, she has been selected as the winner of the fourth edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Malindi (2012-2013).
Majo is an extremely patient artist and an high quality paintress ; her work owns great decorative finesse. She is one of the most interesting female artists in Africa, together with Seni Camara, Esther Mahlangu Reinata Sadimba.
Born in 1956 in Murewa, Zimbabwe, Margaret Majo has studied art at the Polytechnic in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. From 1991 she showed her works in many exhibitions in Harare, in private galleries and at the national Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Her first works are some drawings on paper.
A German teacher, a woman who was living in Harare and working in a school reserved to talented girls, after seeing Majo's drawings, urged her to continue on the path of art. That is how Margaret had the idea of painting the metallic bottle cups of soda's bottles and to stick them on wooden painted tablets, to create stories of the village, everyday's life or the stylised recovery (of incredible graphic elegance) of the tradition of tribal masks.
Margaret Majo was the beginner of this new way of making art, a curious and intriguing one, connected to the idea, wholly african, to operate for a recovery-recycle of the object to be thrown away.
Also her friend Elisabeth Luna, immediately after, dedicated herself to this type of work and these two women are the only original artists that have been operating and still operate along this line defined by their own as 'top art'. Many were and are now their imitators but, as Margaret Majo says, 'the artist's job as a copier will never have the quality of the original artist'.
Despite the hard times for economy, Margaret has many estimators and collectors who give her the chance of living more than decently in her nice house with a garden, on the ourtskirts of Harare.
Each of the metallic bottle cups tells a complete story: its a miniature of rural life, where men and women cooperate to improve the standard of a difficult life in a country that had infinite fights for the liberation from the English colonialism, fights that temporarily ended in 1980 with the achievement of the independence and the division of the ex Ian Smith's Rhodesia in different autonomous areas, such as Zimbabwe and Zambia.
German art merchants were the first to discover and valorize her work, from Matt Fisher to Bernd Kleine-Gunk. The undersigned saw an exhibition of Margaret in Norimberga, in Germany, was enraptured and left for Zimbabwe to meet her. Since then Majo's expositions in Italy were numerous and had an enormous success.
In 2012 Majo was awarded the special prize at the Fourth International Art Biennial of Malindi.
Sarenco
(Translation by Emma Coccioli)
Exhibition realized in collaboration with
SARENCO FOUNDATION
BI.MA.4 - Fourth International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Malindi
BI.MA.4 - MARTIAL ARTS : COMBATIVE WORKS - ARTI MARZIALI : OPERE DI COMBATTIMENTO
29/12/2012 - 28/02/2013 - Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva
Location : African Dada Resort, Casuarina Road, Malindi, Kenya