Art South Africa Weekly Round-Up
Week 11 17 March 2011
As per Art South Africa
 | Art South Africa Magazine 9.3:
Art South Africa magazine 9.3 was launched at the Design Indaba. You can find a copy of our Art & Design issue at Exclusive Books, CNAs and other specialist book stores around the country. For more information about subscribing, see |
 | Art South Africa BROADSHEET:
THE Art South Africa BROADSHEET launched at the Design Indaba and has been making its way across the country ever since. |
 | I Art Woodstock :
Art South Africa attended the first of the adidas Originals I Art SA project, I Art Woodstock, this weekend. We also conducted an interview with curator Ricky Lee-Gordon about the project as a whole |
 | Michael Stevenson:
Micheal Stevnson presents three solo exhibitions by Penny Siopis, Lerato Shadi, and Paul Edmunds from 14 April to 21 May 2011. |
 | Circa on Jellicoe:Circa on Jellicoe presents Deborah Bell’s Presence opening tonight at 6.00 for 6.30. The show runs from 17 March – 30 April. |
 | Artspace: Artspace presents Penny Siopis, Robert Hodgins, Jurgen Schadeberg, Colbert Mashile, Sam Mnisi, and many more in a group show. |
 | David Krut Projects: Maja Maljević's Bubble and Leak will be on show at David Krut Projects until 19 March 2011. |
 | Fried Contemporary Art Gallery: Fried Contemporary Art Gallery and Studio presents Lucas Thobejane, Eric Duplan, Anne McLaren and Sello Mahlangu in Designs of Living from 16 March - 17 April. |
 | Graham's Fine Art Gallery:Graham’s Fine Art Gallery present Andre van Vuuren’s In Constant Pursuit: The Art of Spontaneity, Light and Colour. |
 | Johannesburg Art Gallery:Tracy Rose’s Waiting for God will be on at the Johannesburg Art Gallery until 17 April 2011. Read more |
 | 34 Fine Art:34 FineArt presents Roelof Louw’s Naked Lunch until 23 April 2011. |
 | Blank Projects:Blank Projects presents two exhibitions by Vanessa Niloufar Safavi and Io Makandal from the 23 March – 9 April 2010. |
 | Goodman Gallery:Goodman Gallery Cape Town will be hosting an exhibition by award-winning photographer Jodi Bieber from 31 March - 30 April 2011. |
 | Michaelis Art Gallery:10 Years ON, an exhibition celebrating the Michaelis graduates of 2001, will be on at Michaelis Art Gallery until 29 March 2011. |
 | iArt Gallery:Matthew Hindley’s An Everlasting Once will be showing at iArt Gallery until 23 March 2011. |
New Exhibition at Rust en Vrede Gallery Belville
Library of the infinitesimally small
and the unimaginably large
A solo exhibition by
Barbara Wildenboer
Opening function Wednesday 30 March @ 6 - 8pm
Interior / exterior (Practical vertebrate morphology), altered books, 600 x 700mm, 2011
Using images and metaphor to investigate the scientific contents of found
reference books, Wildenboer tries to make sense of phenomena such as fractal
geometry and the interconnectedness of all living things by creating visual metaphors that speak of a sense of wonder at the complicated beauty of patterns in nature.
For this exhibition, books were selected, not only for their physical characteristics such as typographical layout, size, wear, and paper quality, but also more specifically for their subject matter. Therefore the majority of the books are reference material such as encyclopedias, atlases and scientific textbooks, all sources which are linked by the subject matter of fractal geometry.
Exhibition closes 21 May 2011
Final week to view Fiona MacPherson's exhibition Pony Express
Black King, Inkjet print on cotton paper, 1020mm x 1400mm, 2010
Exhibition closes 19 March 2011
Special Function
Cape Town through the lens of a Japanese photographer
A solo exhibition by
Hirohiko Okada
19 - 26 March 2011
Untitled Camps Bay no. 6, Photographic print mounted on canvas, 885 x 1220mm, 2011
The Photographers Gallery is proud to host a one week exhibition for Japanese photographer, Hirohiko Okada.
Okada was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1967. He has lived in Cairo, Egypt, followed by 3 years in London and 2 years in the Netherlands. Okada arrived in Cape Town, South Africa in 2008. He is leaving at the end of March and this exhibition is his homage to a city which he loved to photograph.
Okada’s photographs of Cape Town have been sent across the world, and were regularly used by Cape Town Tourism to promote the mother city.
Okada’s photographs of Cape Town have been sent across the world, and were regularly used by Cape Town Tourism to promote the mother city.
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Olaf Hajek, 'Weapon,' 2010, Acrylic on board, 600 x 700 mm
EXHIBITION REMINDER
OPENING: WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH 18H00 - 21H00
Whatiftheworld is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based illustrator and figurative painter Olaf Hajek from 16 March - 16 April April, 2011.
Olaf Hajek is currently one of the most internationally renowned and sought-after illustrators. His colourful work can be seen in publications including The New York Times and The Guardian, as well as on stamps for Great Brittain’s Royal Mail. Drawing on the diverse influences of folklore, mythology, religion, history, and geography, Hajek’s paintings transport us to a world of surreal juxtaposition and rearranged realities to explore a realm that is always strangely off kilter.
Using his impressions of Africa as a departure point for this series of new works, Hajek combines a sense of wonder inspired by the continents natural beauty with a darker look at its social and political reality. The result is a body of work that whilst visually beguiling at first glance expresses a series of more complex concerns.
Working between the borders of reality and imagination, Hajek reshapes the rough with the smooth, creating dreamlike tableaux that are skillfully rendered in his signature use of color and technique. His work has been exhibited in London, Berlin, New York, Alanta, and Buenos Aires. This is his first solo exhibition in Africa, and will be accompanied by the release of his recently published monograph by Gestalten.
GALLERY NEWS
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in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Südafrika and Pro Helvetia
invites you to the opening of two exhibitions:
NO MORE ICE CREAM
by Vanesse Safavi
Opening: Wednesday 23 March 2011 at 18:00
Exhibition closes 9 April
(click on the title for more information about this exhibition)
Vanessa Safavi. Plenty of None. 2010. Installation. White sand, clothes, epoxy resin. 700 x 500 cm
AN IMAGINARY SOLUTION
by Io Makandal
Opening: Wednesday 23 March 2011 at 18:00
Exhibition closes 9 April
Io Makandal. Plot # I. 2010. Plywood, scrap wood, trilobal material, paint.
MORE EXHIBITIONS
malcolm payne
APHROISMS
OPENS WED MAR.16
20:00
MALCOLM PAYNE
APHROISMS
exhibition of paintings, prints and video projection
KIMBERLEY HOTEL AFTERWARD
www.youngblackman69.com
69 ROELAND STREET
CAPE TOWN
8001
SOUTH AFRICA
+27 83 383 0656
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THE AVA
in partnership with Spier
invites you to the opening of four exhibitions
THE LONG STREET SHOW
David Lurie
To be opened by Andrew Lamprecht
AND EVERYTHING'S DONE UNDER THE SUN
Carol-Anne Gainer
&
BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Christiaan Diedericks
TEN MILLION POUNDS OF SLUDGE
Hugh Upsher
Opening at 6 pm
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Exhibition closes on Friday 15 April 2011 at 1 pm
David Lurie - The Long Street Show
Carol-Anne Gainer - And Everything's Done Under the Sun
Christiaan Diedericks - Beautiful World
Hugh Upsher - Ten Million Pounds of Sludge
Long Street exhibits many of the dichotomies plainly visible in urban South Africa. The Long Street Show by David Lurie employs the Main and Artstrip galleries of the AVA with a photographic exploration of one of South Africa's most famous streets. Long Street is noted for its Victorian buildings with wrought iron balconies, restaurants, bars, bookshops and second hand stores. Long Street, "as all locals know and visitors are informed, is an essential, not-to-be-missed part of our media-saturated Cape Town multi-culture". Lurie likens himself to "a kind of party-crasher disguised as a photographer", who over a period of months would visit, mingle with the diverse crowd, have a drink, chat and photograph the passing show. In The Long Street Show, so-called unmediated documentary photographs capturing the social and political character of this iconic street are juxtaposed with images that are collaboratively staged, in which the characters "impersonate themselves being themselves" for the photographer. This series is both an original look at Long Street as well as an enquiry into different ways of seeing and representing the urban experience.
In the Long Gallery, Christiaan Diedericks and Carol-Anne Gainer present new works on paper. Beautiful World by Christiaan Diedericks is an edition of seven, original hand-made artist's books, and a special extension of a larger edition of fine art prints by the same title. Each unique book contains seven original dry point engravings and seven Afrikaans poems (with English translations) by contemporary South African author Johann de Lange, as well as text by Hayden Proud, curator at The Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town, and Dr. Eugene Vorster, a well-known Cape Town psychiatrist. All artworks and text in Beautiful World are hand printed in the etching and silk-screening studios of the Frans Masereel Centrum during a three week residency awarded to Diedericks by the Vlaamse Overhijd, held in January 2011 in Kasterlee, Belgium. In And Everything's Done Under the Sun, Carol-Anne Gainer presents a series of monotypes prompted by her experience traveling, and living in rural France. Gainer's appreciation of the natural world is mediated through a curious combination of 18th century farm implements and the domestic bric-a-brac of the last century, including a heron in a bell-jar, tulip containers and farming implements juxtaposed with images or text about animals. The eclectic mix speaks to a concern with our custodianship/relationship with a nature that is increasingly fragile.
Ten Million Pounds of Sludge, a video work by Hugh Upsher, employs the New Media room. Taximonkey.jpg is trying to claim fabulous prizes as it has been declared the 10 000th visitor. It quickly finds this to be no easy task as it attempts to navigate through a maze of obscure and sometimes obscene content. These found images are collected from a large variety internet sources in an almost random fashion. The animation plays out as a mindless hyper paced consumption of content that demonstrates the impending democracy of images. After pushing through ten million pounds of sludge taximonkey.jpg finds his efforts fruitless and returns to the digital graveyard he came from.
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34 Long Street
'Naked Lunch'
Roelof Louw Solo Exhibition
Opening INVITATION:
Tuesday 15 March 18h34
Until 23 April 2011
34FineArt, BUCHANAN SQUARE, WOODSTOCK , CAPE TOWN
Take Zol limited edition serigraph
Also see us at Stall C2 & D1 at ARTMONACO'11 31March - 3 April
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- Three works by Cameron Platter will be featured on the exhibition 'Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now' at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 23 March - 14 August, 2001 in the Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries.
- Cameron Platter has been selected for New Positions at Art Cologne, where 15 artists are given scope to present solo projects. In addition, Cameron Platter has been awarded a residency at The Fountainhead in Miami scheduled for 2012.
- Cameron Platter's work is featured on the exhibition 'Coca-Colonized,' which will be traveling from Vienna to the MARTE Museum in San Salvador (opening May 2011). Platter's work will also be featured as part of an exhibition focusing on Africa from 12 March - 19 April at Galerie Hussenot in Paris.
- Athi-Patra Ruga has been invited to participate in PERFORMA 11, the biennale dedicated to new visual art performance in New York City (taking place November 2011).
- Jan-Henri Booyens currently has a residency at the iaab-Ateliers in Basel, Switzerland. The artist is working on a project titled 'Shifting Land Mass.' Booyens recent paintings and prints are currently featured at our Johannesburg project space CO-OP.
- The gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming solo exhibition by celebrated young painter Michael Taylor, scheduled to open on the 20th of April, 2011.
- Gallery artists Peter Eastman, Stuart Bird, Athi-Patra Ruga, and Cameron Platter are on the exhibition Africa: Assume Art Position curated by Yakouba Konate, which is travelling to the Nomad Gallery in Bruxelles, Belgium to open on March 26, 2011.
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in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Südafrika and Pro Helvetia
invites you to the opening of two exhibitions:
NO MORE ICE CREAM
by Vanesse Safavi
Opening: Wednesday 23 March 2011 at 18:00
Exhibition closes 9 April
(click on the title for more information about this exhibition)
Vanessa Safavi. Plenty of None. 2010. Installation. White sand, clothes, epoxy resin. 700 x 500 cmAN IMAGINARY SOLUTION
by Io Makandal
Opening: Wednesday 23 March 2011 at 18:00
Exhibition closes 9 April
Io Makandal. Plot # I. 2010. Plywood, scrap wood, trilobal material, paint.
MORE EXHIBITIONS
malcolm payne
APHROISMS
OPENS WED MAR.16
20:00
MALCOLM PAYNE
APHROISMS
exhibition of paintings, prints and video projection
KIMBERLEY HOTEL AFTERWARD
www.youngblackman69.com
69 ROELAND STREET
CAPE TOWN
8001
SOUTH AFRICA
+27 83 383 0656
____________________________________
THE AVA
in partnership with Spier
invites you to the opening of four exhibitions
THE LONG STREET SHOW
David Lurie
To be opened by Andrew Lamprecht
AND EVERYTHING'S DONE UNDER THE SUN
Carol-Anne Gainer
&
BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Christiaan Diedericks
TEN MILLION POUNDS OF SLUDGE
Hugh Upsher
Opening at 6 pm
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Exhibition closes on Friday 15 April 2011 at 1 pm
David Lurie - The Long Street Show
Carol-Anne Gainer - And Everything's Done Under the Sun
Christiaan Diedericks - Beautiful World
Hugh Upsher - Ten Million Pounds of Sludge
Long Street exhibits many of the dichotomies plainly visible in urban South Africa. The Long Street Show by David Lurie employs the Main and Artstrip galleries of the AVA with a photographic exploration of one of South Africa's most famous streets. Long Street is noted for its Victorian buildings with wrought iron balconies, restaurants, bars, bookshops and second hand stores. Long Street, "as all locals know and visitors are informed, is an essential, not-to-be-missed part of our media-saturated Cape Town multi-culture". Lurie likens himself to "a kind of party-crasher disguised as a photographer", who over a period of months would visit, mingle with the diverse crowd, have a drink, chat and photograph the passing show. In The Long Street Show, so-called unmediated documentary photographs capturing the social and political character of this iconic street are juxtaposed with images that are collaboratively staged, in which the characters "impersonate themselves being themselves" for the photographer. This series is both an original look at Long Street as well as an enquiry into different ways of seeing and representing the urban experience.
In the Long Gallery, Christiaan Diedericks and Carol-Anne Gainer present new works on paper. Beautiful World by Christiaan Diedericks is an edition of seven, original hand-made artist's books, and a special extension of a larger edition of fine art prints by the same title. Each unique book contains seven original dry point engravings and seven Afrikaans poems (with English translations) by contemporary South African author Johann de Lange, as well as text by Hayden Proud, curator at The Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town, and Dr. Eugene Vorster, a well-known Cape Town psychiatrist. All artworks and text in Beautiful World are hand printed in the etching and silk-screening studios of the Frans Masereel Centrum during a three week residency awarded to Diedericks by the Vlaamse Overhijd, held in January 2011 in Kasterlee, Belgium. In And Everything's Done Under the Sun, Carol-Anne Gainer presents a series of monotypes prompted by her experience traveling, and living in rural France. Gainer's appreciation of the natural world is mediated through a curious combination of 18th century farm implements and the domestic bric-a-brac of the last century, including a heron in a bell-jar, tulip containers and farming implements juxtaposed with images or text about animals. The eclectic mix speaks to a concern with our custodianship/relationship with a nature that is increasingly fragile.
Ten Million Pounds of Sludge, a video work by Hugh Upsher, employs the New Media room. Taximonkey.jpg is trying to claim fabulous prizes as it has been declared the 10 000th visitor. It quickly finds this to be no easy task as it attempts to navigate through a maze of obscure and sometimes obscene content. These found images are collected from a large variety internet sources in an almost random fashion. The animation plays out as a mindless hyper paced consumption of content that demonstrates the impending democracy of images. After pushing through ten million pounds of sludge taximonkey.jpg finds his efforts fruitless and returns to the digital graveyard he came from.
_______________________________________________________
34 Long Street
'Naked Lunch'
Roelof Louw Solo Exhibition
Opening INVITATION:
Tuesday 15 March 18h34
Until 23 April 2011
34FineArt, BUCHANAN SQUARE, WOODSTOCK , CAPE TOWN
Take Zol limited edition serigraph
Also see us at Stall C2 & D1 at ARTMONACO'11 31March - 3 April
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