Archive: Issue No. 139, April 2009

16.04.09 Andrew Verster at the Standard Bank Gallery
16.04.09 Edoardo Villa at the Standard Bank Gallery
30.04.09 Peter Friedl at the Goodman Gallery
30.04.09 Mary Wafer at Brodie/Stevenson
24.03.09 Joburg Art Fair 2009' at Warren Siebrits
26.03.09 Ananias Leki Dago at the Goethe-Institut
26.03.09 Nelson Makamo 'A Place I Call Home' at Gallery on the Square

12.03.09 Jeremy Wafer at the Goodman Gallery
26.03.09 Self/Not-self II' at Brodie/Stevenson
05.03.09 Zander Blom at Rooke Gallery
10.03.09 Titus Matiyane at University of Johannesburg Art Gallery
07.03.09 Christo Doherty at Resolution Gallery
19.03.09 Rodney Place at Gallery MOMO
28.03.09 Robert Hodgins at Gallery AOP
01.04.09 Group show at Gallery on the Square

05.01.09 'Swamp Eyes' at David Krut Projects

30.11.08 Thami Mnyele and the Medu Art Ensemble at the Johannesburg Art Gallery

'Past/Present' focuses on Andrew Verster's output since 1994.

Opens: 16 April
Closes: 23 May 2009

This exhibition of Villa's work is entitled 'Moving Voices' and opens at the Standard Bank Gallery this month.

Opens: April 16
Closes: May 23

A new body of work by Peter Friedl opens at the Goodman Gallery this month.

Opens: April 30

Closes: May 23

In her solo 'The frontier is never somewhere else', Mary Wafer focuses on the urban landscape of Johannesburg.

Opens: April 30
Closes: May 30

This show opened just before the Joburg Art Fair at the Parkwood gallery space and includes work by Jane Alexander and Walter Battiss.

Opens: March 24
Closes: May 8

Ananias Leki Dago's 'Shebeen Blues' shows this month at the Goethe-Institut.

Opens: March 26
Closes: May 22

Artist Nelson Makamo presents an exhibition of works in acrylics, charcoal, pastel, ink and monoprint at Gallery on the Square in May, under the title 'A Place I Call Home'. The show traverses Makamo's memories of places and spaces he inhabited and visited as a child.

Opens: May 6
Closes: May 20

Jeremy Wafer shows a new body of work at the Goodman Gallery this month.

Opens: March 12
Closes: April 18

The second installment of 'Self/Not-self' looks at indirect or 'absent' self-portriats, with work by Avant Car Guard, Conrad Botes, Wim Botha, Reshma Chhiba, Paul Edmunds, Simon Gush, Nicholas Hlobo, Lawrence Lemaoana, Michael MacGarry, Richard Penn, Athi-Patra Ruga, Penny Siopis, and Sober and Lonely.

Opens: March 26
Closes: April 25

A new body of work by young, prolific artist Zander Blom opens at the Rooke Gallery this month.

Opens: March 5
Closes: May 1

The final leg of an exhibition of Titus Matiyane's large city maps, entitled 'Cities of the World', which opened in 2006 in Delft and travelled to Berlin and Bamako, now opens at the UJ Gallery.

Opens: March 10
Closes: April 15

'Small Worlds: Rail technology, nostalgia and South African landscape' by Wits School of the Arts Head of Digital Arts Christo Doherty opens at Resolution Gallery this month.

Opens: March 7
Closes: April 7

After an absence Rodney Place presents a body of work entitled 'The return of the man'.

Opens: March 19
Closes: April 16

A show of new prints by the ever-prolific Robert Hodgins opens later this month.

Opens: March 28
Closes: April 15

Gallery on the Square hosts a group show with work by Paul Blomkamp, Hannelie Coetzee, Wilma Cruise, Bronwen Findlay, Mapula Embroidery Project, Colbert Mashile, [Mis]Adventure Art Collective, Hermann Niebuhr, Carl Roberts, Jenny Stadler and Réney Warrington.

Opens: April 1
Closes: April 14

David Krut Projects' kick-off show for 2009 is 'Swamp Eyes'', a curated exhibition of works on paper that seeks to 'contemplate the external, natural world from a set of aesthetic dimensions'. The works 'explore the natural and cultural with wit and sensitive observation. From the raised surface of the etched line to thoughtful use of colour, the works are emphatically physical and intricate'. Artists participating are Ryan Arenson, Willem Boshoff, Wim Botha, Gail Behrmann, Willie Cole (US), Claire Gavronsky, William Kentridge, Kim Lieberman, Alice Maher (UK), Suzanne McClelland (US), Colin Richards, Michelle Segre (US), Rose Shakinovsky, Sean Slemon, Kiki Smith (US), Nathaniel Stern and Sandile Zulu.

Opens: February 5
Closes: March 16

'Thami Mnyele and the Medu Art Ensemble' aims to give an overview of the artistic output of this ANC-initiated cultural organisation which was founded by Dr Wally Serote in 1978. Medu was disbanded after a SADF raid left Mnyele and 11 others dead in 1985.

Of particular importance to Medu's visual art contribution is the 1982 'Symposium on Culture and Resistance', which was a major gathering of South African and international cultural activists in Gaborone, Botswana. The symposium was accompanied by an exhibition of South African exiles' work entitled 'Art towards social development', which was curated by Thami Mnyele and Gordon Mentz.

Opens: November 30
Closes: March 31