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Mario Todeschini
Untitled, 2005
Five screen video installation
7, 5 min
Georgina Gratrix
Work in progress, 2005
Oil and wobbly eyes on canvas
Derek Bailey
Untitled, 2005
Sculpture, mixed media
Lauren Paulte
When he Grows up he's Going to Marry a Nice Jewish Girl
2,4 x 1.6m
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Michaelis Graduate Show
The Michaelis Graduate Show opens at the end of this month. The Graduate Show features the work of all the many graduating final year and Masters students of 2006. The show is a great opportunity to see (and purchase) work by Cape Town's up-and-coming young artists.
Opens: November 30
Closes: December 21
Michaelis School of Fine Art
Hiddingh Campus, 31 - 7 Orange Street, Gardens
Tel: (021) 480 7111
Email: lessex@hiddingh.uct.ac.za
www.michaelis.uct.ac.za
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Anton Kannemeyer
Sixteen Self Portraits
2002
hand printed silkscreen
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Anton Kannemeyer at Erdmann Contemporary
'Days of my Lives' is a showcase of recent prints, drawings and paintings by Anton Kannemeyer. The theme (with a nod to the popular soapie) refers to the systematic recording and investigation of everyday events in the artist's journals and sketchbooks by himself or his alter ego, Joe Dog. These 'events' include newspaper articles, portraits, general and personal history, all scrutinized by Kannemeyer's ironic and satirical eye. Kannemeyer co-founded the highly regarded Bitterkomix with Conrad Botes.
Opens: November 28
Closes: January 21, 2006
Erdmann Contemporary
63 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422 2762
Fax: (021) 422 32 778
Email: photograllery@mweb.co.za
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William Kentridge
Four Figures on a Bridge
Bronze, edition of 7
61 x 98 x 20cm
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William Kentridge at 34Long
'From Private Selections' presents a selection of William Kentridge works from private collections. It features some of Kentridge's editioned works on paper, which sold out rapidly and have returned to the market extremely rarely, some works in bronze and an original edition of Felix in Exile, his 1999 movie. there are also some charcoal drawings. Also on exhibition will be some very recent work which was completed overseas and has not been shown or sold in South Africa before.
Opens: November 8
Closes: December 10
34Long
34 Long Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 426 4594
Email: fineart@34long.com
www.34long.com
Hours: Tue - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 2pm
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Drawing Room II installation view
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Drawing Room II at what if the world...
In May 2005, the first Drawing Room show was held at the now defunct Dirt Contemporary. This group exhibition was conceived as a show with affordable art with broad appeal, showcasing a selection of small paintings, prints, silk-screens, drawings, reverse glass paintings and illustrations. Its aim was to encourage art buying among young contemporaries and it sold very well.
Once again, Lucinda Mudge and Francesco Nassimbeni have assembled the collective and have put together another show of reasonably priced artwork. The participants include Jacqui Stecher, Heather Moore, Alfalfa, Jesse Breytenbach, Michael Taylor, Francesco Nassimbeni and Lucinda Mudge. Drawing Room is online and updated weekly - www.drawingroom.co.za
What if the World
11 Hope Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 461 2573
Email: info@whatiftheworld.com
www. whatiftheworld.com
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Senyol
Untitled
Mixed media (stickers, spraypaint etc)
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Lewis vs. Senyol at the Bin
'The Neighborhood Notice', an exhibition showcasing original works by dynamic street artists, painters and all-round cool kids Warren Lewis and Senyol, launches on Sunday, November 6, at The Bin. The Bin is a new, fairly informal exhbiition space which seems to be carving out a niche for itself, largely showing art by young, streetish artists.
Opens: November 6
Closes: December 3
The Bin
105 Harrington Street, Gardens, Cape Town
Tel: 084 555 2048
Fax: (021) 462 6605
Email: blaise@circuslabs.co.za
www.circuslabs.co.za
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Absolut Secret at the AVA
The AVA's annual ever popular fundraiser for its Artreach development fund, 'Absolut Secret', opens this month. Each work on show, in a standardised format, is donated by the artists, all of whom are at different stages in their career. These are auctioned for R700 apiece. Buyers do not know whose work they are purchasing as the artists' signatures are hidden, so if you have a keen eye you can pick up a pretty valuable piece of work for a fairly good price.
This is the 10th and final year of this collaboration between AVA and sponsor Absolut Vodka in its current format and is wittily entitled 'Absolut Finale'.
Opens: November 15
Closes: November 19
AVA
35 Church Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 424 7436
Fax: (021) 423 2637
Email: avaart@iafrica.com
www.ava.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm
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Zwelethu Mthethwa
Guardian Angels, 2004
Oil pastel on paper
Clare Menck
Nude on a table, 2000
Oil on canvas
Cobus van Bosch
Monument series, 2002
Cast iron, in an edition of 3
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Committee's Choice and new shows at the AVA
In the Main Gallery at the AVA is the annual Committee's Choice exhibition where each member of AVA's current committee and sub-committees selects a work by an artist of their choice. Artists featured this year include Adam Letch, Bill Ainslie, Zwelethu Mthethwa and Eris Silke.
At the same time, fine figurative painter Clare Menck shows new work in the Long Gallery. Upstairs a group show, primarily of paintings, by Sandra Hanekom, Cobus van Bosch, Martin Stiller and Kennett Sinclair, some of whom have never exhibited at AVA before.
Opens: November 21
Closes: December 10
AVA
35 Church Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 424 7436
Fax: (021) 423 2637
Email: avaart@iafrica.com
www.ava.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm
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Elizabeth Günther
Olifant 2005
Charcoal drawing
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Elizabeth Günther at Erdmann Contemporary
'Litter/Werpsel' is an exhibition of Elizabeth Gunther's charcoal drawings of animal embryos floating in formaldehyde which apparently represent both the miraculous beginnings of life and the sinister fascination of death.
Opens: November 2
Closes: November 26
Erdmann Contemporary
63 Shortmarket Street
Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422 2762
Email: photogallery@mweb.co.za
www.erdmanncontemporary.co.za
Hours: Tue - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm
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Robert Slingsby
Information Trafficker, 2005
Acrylic on canvas
1783 x 1203 mm
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Robert Slingsby at Bell-Roberts
Well known artist Robert Slingsby has been absorbed with the petroglyphs (rock engravings) of the Richtersveld for nearly three decades. His work reflects his obsession with these engravings and the environment of the Richtersfeld. He has become equally interested in the people who made them and those who he believes to be their living link i.e. the local Richtersveld or Nama people.
In this, his first exhibition in Cape Town since 1998, Slingsby has created bronze sculptures and paintings which attempt to convey the mystical power of the remnant dwellings, capturing the colours and textures of the petroglyphs in the surfaces of his canvases and bronzes.
Opens: November 30
Closes: December 23
Bell-Roberts
89 Bree Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422 1100
Fax: (021) 423 3135
Email: suzette@bell-roberts.com
www.bell-roberts.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5.30pm, Sat 10am - 2pm
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Churchill Madikida
Status, 2005 (installation detail)
work in progress
Diane Victor
Smoke Portrait, 2005
smoke on paper
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Churchill Madikida and Diane Victor at Michael Stevenson Gallery
Video artist Churchill Madika and printmaker, Diane Victor present solo shows concurrently at the Michael Stevenson this month.
In 'Status' Madikida explores the theme of HIV/AIDS through new video works and installations. The artist writes that his response to HIV/Aids is both a campaign to intensify national awareness and an intensely personal response to living with his sister as she struggled with AIDS for nine years, passing away earlier this year. The word 'status' is commonly used to indicate people's position in society; it is also used to denote whether or not someone is HIV positive. In choosing this as the title of his exhibition, the gallery tells us, Madikida plays on this ambiguity to point out that 'the deadly virus does not care about class, and transcends boundaries such as gender, race and sexuality'.
Diane Victor's 'Smoke Portraits' is a series of drawings comprising 40 portraits made from photographs taken by Victor, documenting patients at the St Raphael HIV/AIDS Centre day clinic in Grahamstown on a single day in October last year. The portraits are made with the deposits of carbon from candle smoke on white paper. They are exceedingly fragile and thus mirror the fragility and transience of the human life they document.
Madikida will conduct walkabouts of his show at 11am on Thursday October 27 (cost R30, proceeds to Friends of the South African National Gallery), and on Thursday December 1 (World AIDS Day, attendance free) at times to be confirmed.
Opens: October 6
Closes: December 3
Michael Stevenson Contemporary Gallery
Hill House, De Smidt Street, Green Point
Tel: (021) 421 2575
Fax: (021) 421 2578
www.michaelstevenson.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 10am -1pm
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Esther Mahlangu's house in Mabhoko
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Esther Mahlangu at 34 Long
Esther Mahlangu, who is possibly most famous for her 1991 painting of a BMW in Ndebele style, returns to Cape Town to exhibit after a very busy two years in which she has shown in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland and the USA. New two-dimensional works in a wide range of media from beads and dung to paint will be on view along with some sculptural installations. The ever ambitious artist will also produce a large mural in the gallery before opening night.
Opens: October 18
Closes: November 5
34 Long
34 Long Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 426 4594
Email: fineart@34long.com
www.34long.com
Hours: Tue - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 2pm
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Sanell Aggenbach
North By Northwest, 2005
Laminated wood and paint
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Sanell Aggenbach at Bell-Roberts
Absa l'Atelier Award winner Sanell Aggenbach exhibits 'Fool's Gold', an amalgamation of private narratives and historic references. The body of work is an extension of 'Hoogwater/High Tide', which was presented at the KKNK in April 2005 and was nominated for a Kanna Award. In the show Aggenbach makes use of maritime themes of discovery and exploration and comments on a society preoccupied with issues of self, identity and the need to belong using quiet humour to underline issues of cultural heritage.
Opens: October 26
Closes: November 26
Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery
89 Bree Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 422 1100
Fax: (021) 423 3135
Email: suzette@bell-roberts.com
www.bell-roberts.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 8.30 - 5.30, Sat 10am - 2pm
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Billy Mandindi
The Death of Township Art 1989
Oil pastel on paper
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'ReVisions: A Private Narrative of SA Art' at SANG
This exhibition at the South African National Gallery claims to be drawn from one of the most impressive private collections of South African art assembled by an individual. Bruce Campbell-Smith started collecting in the mid-1980s and the result is a collection of work by almost 90 artists, mostly black South Africans, working from the 1920s until 1994.
Hayden Proud, curator at Iziko, says the collection is impressive because of its scope, its items of rarity and the fact that the collector has had a fine arts training himself, which has informed many choices. He says the collection contains works by well-known and now historical figures the public have never seen before. It is focused on artists working in the figurative traditions of painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpture, with a strong Natal bias.
Artists represented include Gerard Bhengu, Trevor Makhoba, Sthembiso Sibisi, Maggie Laubscher, Amos Langdown, Arthur Butelezi, Mizream Maseko, George Pemba, Gerard Sekoto, Dumile Feni, Billy Mandindi, Peter Clarke, Neville Lewis, Gregoire Boonzaier, Marianne Podlashuc, Selby Mvusi, Irma Stern, Gladys Mgudlandlu, Sydney Khumalo, Louis Maqhubela, Tommy Motswai, Alfred Thoba, Noria Mabasa and Johannes Segogela.
Opens: September 24
Closes: March 19, 2006
Iziko South African National Gallery
Government Avenue, Company Gardens
Tel: (021) 467 4660
Email: cquerido@iziko.org.za
www.museums.org.za/iziko
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm
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Dumile Feni
'Untitled', pen and ink
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Advance Notice: Dumile Feni Retrospective at the SANG
The Dumile Feni retrospective comes to Cape Town's National Gallery this month from the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Feni's drawings, which depicted township life and its values, won acclaim as South African social commentaries. His work has won numerous awards and in 1967 he represented the country at the Sao Paulo Biennale.
Feni's artistic ability was nurtured from 1964 when the artist Ezrom Legae encouraged him to draw and several artists later assisted him in his career, including Cecil Skotnes. In 1968, he went into exile and lived in London for many years. In the 1980s, he moved to New York after teaching art in Boston. He died in 1991.
Curator Joe Dolby will present a walkabout of this exhibition on September
18 at 10.30am. The cost is R25 for walkabout and refreshments or R10 for walkabout
only.
Opens: August 11
Closes: November 5
Iziko South African National Gallery, Government Avenue, Company Gardens
Tel: (021) 467 4671
Website: www.museums.org.za/iziko
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am � 5pm
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Erik Laubscher
Swartland, 2005
Oil on canvas
Sanell Aggenbach
Bleak, 2003
Mixed media
2m x 2m
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'Shaping Place' at The Gallery at Grande Provence
'Shaping Place' curated by art consultant Rose Korber, will present work by two dozen artists who have all elected to explore the theme of landscape, be it aesthetically, politically and psychologically. Participants include Sanell Aggenbach, Willie Bester, Peter Eastman, David Goldblatt, Stephen Inggs, William Kentridge, Erik Laubscher and Judy Woodborne
Opens: November 5
Closes: December 11
The Gallery at Grande Provence
Grande Provence Estate, Main Road, Franschhoek
Tel: (021) 876 8647
Fax: (021) 876 8601
Email: gallery@grandprovence.co.za
www.grandeprovence.co.za
Hours: Mon - Sun 10 am - 6 pm
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