About

Guto Bussab is multidisciplinary artist living and working in Cape Town, South Africa.

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.

ARTWORKS

WAVE (2021)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 760 mm X 760 mm

Toxic masculinity (2017)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 780 mm x 450 mm

VER (2021)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:900 mm X 900 mm

Fragility (2022)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 820 mm x 1100 mm

Sky Told (2019)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 500 mm X 500 mm

You are everyone else (2014)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 1900 mm x 580 mm

Drown (2022)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1200 mm X 800 mm

Meek (2013)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 820 mm x 1100 mm

Poes, Piel (2014)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition on 10
Dimensions: 650 mm x 1220mm

Com textura (2022)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1500 mm X 1000 mm

Portrait of Amy Ludidi (2017)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 500 mm x 500 mm

Purge (2021)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 2200 mm X 1200 mm

Meaningless Coincidence (2022)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 820 mm x 1100 mm

portrait of Sizo Mahlangu (2024)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 820 mm x 1100 mm

Calm (2020)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 1100 mm x 500 mm

Still life with vase (2016)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 780 mm x 450 mm

Many souls (2024)
Medium: mixed materials on wall
Dimensions: 2400 mm x 1500 mm

Die Nuwe Setlaar (2016)
Medium: Pigment based archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 10
Dimensions: 820 mm x 1100 mms

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO
2005 « CORPUS » MUTI Gallery, Johannesburg, SA.
2016 « STILL » AGOG Gallery, Johannesburg, SA.

2022 – NO AR – Youngblood Africa, Cape Town, 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 – MEANINGLESS COINCIDENCE – Youngblood Africa, Cape