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Make your Next… the Avant Card Nextibition
donaldmogotsi
Community Coordinator
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Your Gold card might look like everyone else’s, but in reality it’s as unique as you are. It’s your personal enabler. It’s an extension of your one-of-a-kind lifestyle, attitude and perspective on the world.

 

We wanted to explore how we could inspire young South Africans to celebrate their journey and invest in their own future and we were curious to know how this thinking could manifest visually.  So, the Avant Card project was conceived, an art inspired collaboration with some of Africa’s foremost, up-and-coming artists – Trevor Stuurman and The Sartists.

 

What better way to showcase their work than through our Avant Card Nextibition – our first online art exhibition - where art and our Gold Card meet.

It is a piece of contemporary art and a piece of creative expression of what the Gold card inspired these artists to express and to show us what the card meant to them.

 

The Sartists chose to draw their inspiration from one of the nation’s great actors, the late Joe Mafela by recreating the iconic earrings he wore on the sitcom “Sgudi Snaysi”, that made him a household name. 

 

Trevor decided to keep it close to home by celebrating his grandmother’s craft of beadwork by creating a beaded bicycle.

Each artist was given full creative license, and we encouraged them to tell intensely personal stories. The resulting artworks are thus intimate expressions of both themselves and their views on contemporary South Africa, and demonstrate the importance of financial independence in achieving one’s next goal or dream.

 

Don’t take our word for it, check out the Avant Card Nextibition tonight at 6pm on our social media pages (Instagram, Facebook and Twitter).

Then see it come to life in Maboneng on Sunday 23 July at 6.30pm (Fox and Kruger street)

 

Capture the experience and share it using #SBNextibition to tell South Africa how we’ve taken art to the streets.

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