ABOUT
Guto Bussab is multidisciplinary artist living and working in Cape Town.
Originally from Brasil, Bussab draws his subject matter from the similarities within the South-South paradigm: identity, inequality, civic responsibility or gender politics.
There is a clear sense of unease in his work, whatever the subject matter - be it the indistinct line between sleep and death, or psychosexual embodiment - in order to articulate and reflect the South-South as a place where society functions in extremes.
BODY OF WORK
Title: Wave
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 760 mm X 760 mm
Title: Drown
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1200 mm X 800 mm
Title: Ver
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 760 mm X 760 mm
Title: Com textura
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1500 mm X 1000 mm
Title: Calm
Date: 2020
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 1000 mm x 500 mm
With Ramsey Lewis
Title: Portrait of Siszo Mahlangu
Date: 2023
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 820 mm X 1100 mm
Title: Tillandsia in the Year of the Dog 70
Date: 2020
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 800 mm X 570 mm
Title: Fragility
Date: 2019
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 350 mm x 550 mm
Title: Purge
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 2200 mm X 1200 mm
Title: Meaningless Coincidence
Date: 2020
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 350 mm x 450 mm
Title: Toxic masculinity
Date: 2017
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 780 mm x 450 mm
Title: Still life with vase
Date: 2016
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 780 mm x 450 mm
Title: Dead Moment
Date: 2014
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 500 mm X 500 mm
Title: Tide
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 460 mm X 460 mm
Title: Diasporra
Date: 2019
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 800 mm X 800 mm
Title: Sky Told
Date: 2018
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 800 mm X 8500 mm
Title: Ouroboros
Date: 2016
Medium:Video Performance
Title: You are everyone else
Date: 2014
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 1900 mm x 580 mm
With Sibz Zihle
Title: From a bar of soap
Date: 2015
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 1900 mm x 580 mm
With Alfonzo Franke
Title: Witch
Date: 2021
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 820 mm x 1100 mm
A collaboration with @1quarantina during the Covid pandemic.
Title: Meek 1
Date: 2013
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 820 mm x 1100 mm
With Aluad Anei
Title: Incubus
Date: 2005
Medium: Video Installation
Screened at Hotspots Rotterdam Film Festival 2005, the Netherlands.
Title: Die Nuwe Setlaar
Date: 2016
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 820 mm x 1100 mms
With Jared Ethan Blake
Title: Portrait of Amy Ludidi
Date: 2017
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 500 mm x 500 mm
With Amy Ludidi
Title: Poes, Piel
Date: 2014
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition on 10
Dimensions: 650 mm x 1220mm
With Mehnaaz Alex
Title: Corpus 3
Date: 2005
Medium: Inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper
Edition on 5
Dimensions: 850mm x 850mm
Title: Corpus 7
Date: 2005
Medium: Inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper
Edition on 5
Dimensions: 850mm x 850mm
Title: Corpus 5
Date: 2005
Medium: Inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper
Edition on 5
Dimensions: 850mm x 850mm
Title: Corpus 6
Date: 2005
Medium: Inkjetprint on Hahnemühle paper
Edition on 5
Dimensions: 850mm x 850mm
Title: Greed losses all
Date: 2013
Medium: Performance
To commemorate the inaugural World Toilet Day on 19th November 2013, Brazilian artist Guto Bussab installed 9 golden toilets at Camps Bay, to take the plight of millions of South Africans who don’t have access to flush toilets or sanitation to one of the city’s most affluent suburbs. Not everyone appreciated the move. Bussab was slapped with a R500 fine for ‘trading without a licence’, but managed to convince the officers to leave the installation intact. Titled GREED LOSES ALL, each of the toilets represents a province.”While politicians continue to score points by talking about sanitation, little has changed in the conditions for millions of people who do not have access to flush toilets,” Bussab said.
Cape Argus article by Daneel Knoetze. Images by Candice Quanta Chaplin
Title: A Word With You
Date: 2013 (ongoing)
Medium: Performance
A Word With You (AKA Scrabbling) first appeared at the Infecting the City 2012 Public Art Festival. Since then it has been performed at 100in1day, Open Streets in Langa, First Thursdays and in and around Cape Town.
Title: Resistance
Date: 2014
Medium: Wood board, Paper, Enamel paint, acrylic medium
Dimensions: 2400mm (W) x 1200mm (H)
A collaboration between RALPH ZIMAN and GUTO BUSSAB, as part of the RESISTANCE PROJECT by R. ZIMAN.
This work was produced for the War Resistance International Conference which took place at the City Hall, Cape Town, in June 2014.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2005 « CORPUS » MUTI Gallery, Johannesburg, SA.
2016 « STILL » AGOG Gallery, Johannesburg, SA.
GROUP
2005 - POST-WHITES ONLY - curated by Aryan Kaganof, Hotspots Rotterdam Film Festival, the Netherlands.
2008 - AFTERMATH - Art Extra, Johannesburg, SA.
2013 - SUPERMARKET - MUTI Gallery, Cape Town, SA.
2013 - ENGINYART - Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2013 - SCRABBLING - Infecting The City Public Art Festival, Cape Town, SA.
2014 - THE SECRET LOVE PROJECT - Culture Gallery, Cape Town, SA.
2015 - THATARTFAIR - Cape Town, SA.
2015 - WAITING - MUTI Gallery, with Senzeni Marasela and Angel~Ho, Cape Town, SA.
2015 - PASSING THROUGH - Space Between, Cape Town, Sa.
2016 - THATARTFAIR - Cape Town, SA.
2017 - SEPTEMBER SHOW - GALLERY ONE11, Cape Town, SA.
2018 - THE POLITICS OF SEX- GALLERY ONE11, Cape Town, SA.
2022 - NO AR - Youngblood Africa, Cape Town, SA.
2022 - MEANINGLESS COINCIDENCE - Youngblood Africa, Cape Town, SA.
Contact gbussab@icloud.com