Ginasio is shot in a gymnasium in the Island of Mozanbique. Perhaps first to explain the Island of Mozanbique, the fist colonial capital, held by the Portuguese to enable the ships on the sea route to India to be resupplied. Ilha has the remenance of European occupation and architecture since 15 century, in the contemporary is both a ruin and a vibrant city island that has reinvented the spaces of the colonial capital. Declared a World Heritage site in 2000, previously a refuge for many communities fleeing the civil war on the mainland Mozanbique that raged until 1994.
The gym occupied by the young men of Ilha is such a space and they have constructed their own equipment from railway wheels and genuine cannon balls that were washed up on the beach.
Ginasio looks at bodies in the gym, and attempts to formulate a sequence of movements and mood that convey an element of a society at peace and individual expression or discovery is enacted. The comparison being what these young men had previously known in their lives, displacement and war.
Shot on low light, as this remote part of Africa is low tech, Ginasio is a small vision of Africa that does not attempt to explain anythingother than this small space in time in a Gym.
BERENICE JOSEPHINE BICKLE, Berry Bickle, born Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 1959
Durban Technical College: National Diploma in Fine Art, Higher National Diploma in Fine Art (honors)
Rhodes University: Masters degree in Fine Arts, practical (honours)
Lives and works in Maputo.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
Step Inside, Dieleman Gallery Brussels, Belgium
2003 Face to Face with Zimbabwe, Hifa, National Gallery, Harare
Here and There with Benoit Piret, Gallery Dieleman, Belgium
Video Brazil São Paulo Video Art Festival, Brazil
2002 Dak’Art 2002 individual exposions, myth, memory and concept
Kakuyo,’ between a rock and a far away place’ with Tapfuma Gutsa
Gallery Dieleman, Belgium
2001 Africus, The artist and the City, CCCB, Barcelona
Arco Madrid Arts Fair
Kunst aus Zimbabwe, Iwalewa Haus, Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Germany
2000 ‘el tiempo de Africa ‘ tiempo V, los tiempo que vienen, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno
’Art dans le Monde, Beaux Arts Magazine , du pont Alexandre III, Paris
‘No woman is an island’ with Majorie Wallace, Gallery Delta, Harare
Siyaphambili-2000, National Gallery, Harare
1999 World video festival , Gate Foundation presentation, Amsterdam
13 Rencontres Video Arte Plastique, Basse Normendie
International Print Portfolio, Artists for Human Rights, Durban,
Artist’s against land-mines, Franco/ Moçambique Cultural Center, Maputo
1998 Artistes contemporains du Zimbabwe, Pierre Gallery, Paris
Women in African Art, Habari, Vienna
1997 MBCA- Decade of Award winners, National Gallery, Harare
1995 Uncommon Thread, Johannesburg Civic Center
Africus, Johannesburg Biennial
On the Road, Delfina Studios, Africa 95, London
1994 Quinta Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba
Die 5. Biennial von Havanna, Ludwig Museum, Aachen
1993 Zimbabwe/Tanzania; contemporary artists, Helsinki
Selected Individual Exhibitions
Fragmentos de terra Maputo, 1993
The reading room Harare 1994
Other Harare 1995
Os Desabirantes da Tela Maputo 1995
Earth, Water, Fire Harare 1997
Wandering Harare 1999
Rewrites Maputo 2001
berry@musarte Maputo 2004
Selected Bibliography
The avant garde in Africa, Pachipamwe II, Elsbeth Court
African Arts volume XXV number 1
Empire’s Offspring, Anthony Chennels, Gallery Magazine No 7
Animating the Image, Barbara Murry, Gallery Magazine No 23
Zimbabwe, African Contemporary Art, Revue Noire No 28
Un sac de self, Barbara Murry, Beaux Arts, September 2000
Inzima, Pierre Sanner, el Tiempo de Africa, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno.
2 or 3 things about Berry Bickle, Catalogue Africas CCCB Simon Njami
Myth, memory and concept, Dak’art catalogue, N’gone Fall
3 Dimensions, Kakuyo, Gallery Dieleman
Works in Private International and Gallery collections
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