Thursday, October 20, 2011

Whats on in visual Art World in South Africa

New Committee Members for NAF Announced:

Brett Bailey, Phyllis Klotz, Nomusa Makhubu, Dominic Thorburn, and Gregory Maqoma have been announced as the latest members of the National Arts Festival’s Artistic Committee, with effect from September this year. They will each serve a three-year term on the Committee.

News:

Art:

Frieze Art Fair 2011 Recap:

The Frieze Art Fair took place in Regent’s Park, London from 13 – 16 October 2011. Miranda Sawyer reviews the 2011 fair for The Observer here.

VANSA Gauteng ArtConnect Crystallise Holdings:

VANSA recently announced a new project they will be implementing in Joburg called ArtConnect. The project will explore the imaginative re-use and animation of non-arts spaces outside of the established contemporary art circuits in Gauteng, and will represent a unique opportunity for the five young artists to develop their practice with curatorial and technical support from their network.

Sober & Lonely 2011/2012 Residencies:

Sober & Lonely Institute for Contemporary Art is sending out an open call for artists, writers, curators (etc) to participate in a one-day residency programme in Johannesburg this Summer.

Gavin Younge on Local Art Theft:

Gavin Younge expands on his column on art theft for Art South Africa v10i1. You can read the unabridged version here.

VIP Art Fair Returns:

VIP Art Fair, the world’s first contemporary art fair held exclusively online, announces its second fair, VIP 2.0, February 3-8, 2012, at VIPArtFair.com. More here.

Jobs:

TUT Part Time Lecturer: Photography:

The Faculty of the Arts, Tshwane University of Technology has a part time lecturer position available on the Arts Campus, Pretoria.

ASSITEJ SA Positions for 2012:

ASSITEJ SA is looking to fill three positions for 2012: Finance and Operations Manager, Marketer and Fundraiser and Project Manager (theatre4youth).

Theatre/Venue Manager – Grahamstown Foundation:

The Grahamstown Foundation seeks to appoint a dynamic full-time Theatre/Venue Manager to manage all productions and events held in the Guy Butler Theatre as well as the technical requirements for events held throughout the Monument.

Positions at Prohelvetia:

The Southern African office of the Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia, is moving from Cape Town to Johannesburg in January 2012, and in this context are looking to fill 2 part-time positions: Administrative and Financial Officers.

Opening This Week:

19 October 2011:

Listening to Distant Thunder:

Peter Clarke’s Listening to Distant Thunder opens at the Iziko South African Gallery opens on Wednesday 19 October 2011. It runs from 20 October to 19 February 2011.

21 October 2011:

“The Forest and the Zoo” – a Blue Notes tribute concert:

Friday, 21 October 2011, from 8pm at the Drill Hall (14/15/16 Twist Street, Joubert Park, Johannesburg). Under the direction of composer/trumpeter Marcus Wyatt, some of Johannesburg’s leading jazz musicians, including Siya Makuzeni, Andile Yenana & Ayanda Sikade, explore Chimurenga Chronic themes such as history, exile and memory in their tribute to the freedom and prolific musical imagination of South African jazz legends, the Blue Notes.

Listings:

Western Cape:

34 FINE ART:

20 September 2011:

New Arrivals. Group exhibition.

ABALONE GALLERY:

South African contemporary and modern art - sculpture, painting, photography – including Lien Botha, John Clarke, Christo Coetzee, Gail Catlin, Judith Mason, Lynette ten Kroonden, Carl Roberts, Susanne Swart. Main Gallery exhibition.

12 September – 14 November 2011:

Printed IV– graphic work by Cecil Skotness, Lucky Sibiya, El Loko, Braam Kruger. Annex Exhibition.

ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTS:

3 October – 11 November 2011:

AVA Gallery 40 years anniversary exhibition part 1 1970 – 1980. Curated by Marilyn Martin.

BARNARD GALLERY:

Forthcoming Exhibition:

Reality or Illusion. Maeve Dewar.

Featured Artists: Willie Bester, Keith Calder, Tracy Payne, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Robert Silingsby, Duncan Stewart, Pamela Stretton, Felix Anaut.

BRUNDYN + GONSALVES (formerly iART GALLERY):

5 – 26 October 2011:

Immersed. Clare Menck.

New Works. Cobus Haupt.

DAVID KRUT PROJECTS CAPE TOWN:

October – 3 December 2011:

Postcards from the Road. Justin Fox and Don Pinnock.

GORDON INSTITUTE FOR PERFORMING ARTS:

September – October:

Great Texts / Big Questions. Weekly public lectures.

September – November:

Music in the City. Public concert series.

November:

Intimate movements in public spaces: one on one inner city talks.

GOODMAN GALLERY CAPE TOWN:

4 September – 23 October:

Basic Reality. Young Artists Curated Show.

HOUT STREET GALLERY:

Founded in 1975, The Hout Street Gallery in Paarl specializes in South African paintings and fine art. The Gallery also offers a selection of ceramics, sculptures, creative jewellery, glass, gifts, and Carrol Boyes functional art. Enjoy the relaxed atmosphere and personalized service.

KALK BAY MODERN:

18 October – 26 November 2011:

ART ON PAPER. Curated by Cheryl Rumbak. Opening 6.30 pm at Casa Labia, 192 Main Road, Muizenberg, Cape Town. Satellite exhibition at Kalk Bay Modern.

SMAC ART GALLERY CAPE TOWN:

October – November 2011:

Jake Aikman

SMAC ART GALLERY

September – November.

Retrospective. Neil Erasmus.

STEVENSON:

20 October – 26 November 2011:

Angela Ferreira

Fohawk Two Feathers

STRYDOM GALLERY:

The art of recognizing yourself.

WARREN EDITIONS:

Warren Editions, professional printmaking studio, publishes and prints original fine art prints by both emerging and established South African artists.

Mpumalanga:

THE ARTISTS’ PRESS:

Print studio. Hand printed original prints by leading South African artists.

KwaZulu-Natal:

AFRICAN ART CENTRE:

Vulindlela Nyoni.

Free State:

OLIEWENHUIS ART MUSEM:

20 September – 6 November 2011:

Zak Benjamin Retrospective (Main Building)

Gauteng:

ARTSPACE JOHANNESBURG:

8 October – 5 November 2011:

Surface. Lionel Smit.

9 – 30 November 2011:

Ago/Gelede. MJ Lourens.

GALLERY AOP:

8 - 29 October 2011:

Reading room. Jonah Sack.

5- 26 November 2011:

New work. Wilhelm Saayman.

DAVID KRUT PROJECTS

15 September - 23 October 2011:

MARY WAFER. Countermeasures.

DAVID KRUT PUBLISHING, ARTS ON MAIN: Mike Houston and Martin Mazorra from Cannonball Press in New York have released woodcuts that are now available in limited numbers from DKW.

EVERARD READ JOHANNESBURG:

8 September – 30 October 2011:

Horse: Multiple Views of a Singular Beast. An exhibition of 60 South African artists curated by Ricky Burnett.

GOETHE-INSTITUT SÜDAFRIKA:

Friday, March 18, 2011

African Arts and Crafts

Art South Africa Weekly Round-Up

Week 11 17 March 2011

As per Art South Africa

Breaking News:

The regional finalists in the Absa L’Atelier Exhibition were announced last night at Gallery B in Bellville. The finalists are: Peter Mikael Campbell, Larita Engelbrecht, Ian Grose, Alice Gauntlett, Jessie Hammond, Lunga Kama, Kristine Kronje, Daniel Naude, Haidee Nel, Dale Washkansky, Sofia Stodel, and Kai Lossgott. For more on the competition, see

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.

You can find a copy of our new multi-platform magazine in galleries, boutiques, coffee shops and tertiary institutes across the country. For more from THE BROADSHEET

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.

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Olaf Hajek, 'Weapon,' 2010, Acrylic on board, 600 x 700 mm

EXHIBITION REMINDER

OLAF HAJEK

DARK CLOUDS ARE GATHERING / SOLO EXHIBITION
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

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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blank projects

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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