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Johannesburg 24.04.01 Dias & Riedweg in South Africa 24.04.01 The Art Space opens with 'Point of View' 24.04.01 Yinka Shonibare exhibition and seminars in Johannesburg 24.04.01 Johan Meyer at the Alliance Francaise 24.04.01 John Brett Cohen at the Gencor Gallery, RAU 24.04.01 Botsotso/Ditsela performance production at Gallery 111.3 17.04.01 'Introduction' at Spark! 17.04.01 Alan Crump and Lyndi Sales at the Goodman 17.04.01 Alan Alborough and Bonnie Ntshalintshali at the Standard Bank 03.04.01 Jürgen Schadeberg 03.04.01 Material Matters at the Gertrude Posel Gallery 13.03.01 'Shifts...in consciousness: A Changing Heritage' Pretoria 24.04.01 Arno Morland at the Open Window 24.04.01 'Four by Four' at the Association of Arts, Pretoria 24.04.01 New Acquisitions at the Unisa Art Gallery 17.04.01 'People and Places' at the Open Window 17.04.01 Vladimir Suchanek and Lene Tempelhoff at the Association of Arts, Pretoria 17.04.01 Gordon Froud at the African Window
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Dias & Riedweg
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Dias & Riedweg in South Africa
Video installation and lecture
Thursday nights at the Tandoor in Rockey Street live up to the famous street's reputation of being a late night party haven. On Thursday May 3, the Tandoor hosts 'My name on your lips', a large-scale video projection piece by Brazilian-Swiss collaborative pair, Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, which will be installed on the roof garden, visible from the street.
Dias & Riedweg, well-known on the international Biennale circuit, have been working together since 1993, using their respective experiences in visual arts and performance to produce hard-hitting and perceptive public art projects. Audiences are integral to the creation of the work, "not just as represented object, but as a co-acting subject", they point out, as they "seek to affirm art as an essential experience for every individual in society."
This particular event, facilitated by The Trinity Session and the Joubert Park Public Art Project, features the lips of 30 people, shot in extreme close up, reciting the names of past lovers as if in a school roll-call. On a huge scale, they are at once erotic and monstrous, intimate and grossly public, "inscribing little confessions in large scale pictures".
Dias & Riedweg have, to their credit, installations featured on the last Venice Biennale, the S�o Paulo Biennial and 'Conversations at The Castle' (Atlanta, 1996), curated by Mary Jane Jacob. Most recently, their work featured on Catherine David's 'L'Etat des Choses' in The Kunst-Werken Berlin.
They have been travelling in South Africa on a research trip for the last several weeks.
The first South African presentation of 'My name on your lips' coincides with the Tandoor's Thursday night party, featuring music by Admiral & Appleseed and J-Kulcha.
The screening will commence at 9.00 p.m.
Tandoor provides secure parking on Rockey Street.
The artists will give a public presentation of their work at Wits University at 11:30 AM on Thursday, April 26th, 2001
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Albert Redelinghuys
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The Art Space opens with 'Point of View'
Teresa Lizamore launches a new gallery adjacent to her home on May 6. Designed as four separate spaces that flow into one another, she aims to host quarterly exhibitions, featuring four artists "under one roof". A tea garden is on hand for refreshments and light snacks. The first exhibition features four small shows by Albert Redelinghuys (paintings), Hanneke Benade (drawings), Zonia Nel-Scheffer (paintings) and Cobus Haupt (sculptures). The space will be open throughout the week for the first week of the exhibition and thereafter by appointment. The project has been in the pipeline for about a year, and hopefully answers a need for private, commercial spaces in Johannesburg. Lizamore's mission is to "maintain the fine balance between making art accessible to residential people in the area as well as to corporates, while promoting quality contemporary art by both young and more mature artists". The show planned for August will feature more established, older artists, with the November exhibition co-produced by Lizamore and a performance artist. She is also hoping to have social, informal lectures and talks in the gallery space. Watch this space for details.
Opening: Sunday May 06, 4.30pm
The Art Space, 3 Hetty Avenue, Fairland, Johannesburg
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Yinka Shonibare
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Yinka Shonibare exhibition and seminars in Johannesburg
Camouflage, in conjunction with Billiton SA Ltd strike gold with an exhibition by critically acclaimed London-based artist Yinka Shonibare. Best known for his intelligent critiques of history, society and the politics of cultural colonisation, his work 'A Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour' featured on the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale. Born in London in 1962, he relocated to Nigeria at an early age, and completed his tertiary studies back in Europe. Focusing on the Victorian era in his production, he styles himself as Victorian dandy and inserts himself into quasi-historical tableaux which are photographed, or creates life-size Victorian mannequin figures whose garments are made from African textiles. He will be in Johannesburg for 5 days, during which time he will conduct two seminars:
1. Wits University, Senate House, Basement 4, on Wednesday 4th May 2001 from 1pm until 2pm.
2. MTN on Thursday 10th May from 11:30am until 12:30pm. For bookings and more information, please contact Camouflage (Sandri Burt or Suzanne du Preez), Wits University Department of Art History (Anitra Nettleton) or The MTN Art institute (Eloise Knoetze) The exhibition at Camouflage opens on May 11 and closes June 30.
Camouflage Art.Culture.Politics nucleus johannesburg africa, 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, 2193
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Johan Meyer at the Alliance Francaise
A student at the Natal Technikon during the 1990's, followed by a Master's Degree at Stellenbosch University, Johan Meyer presents an exhibition called 'Social Sciences' at the under-utilised Alliance Francaise. Specialising in installation, which formed part of his postgraduate thesis, 'Social Sciences' includes paintings, multi-unit sculptures and technology. One of the focal points of the exhibition is the use of images that are available through the latest technology in the field of the living sciences.
Opening: May 7 at 6.45 pm
Alliance Francaise 17 Lower Park Drive, Parkview
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John Brett Cohen at the Gencor Gallery, RAU
This established documentary photographer passed away unexpectedly early in April. However, this scheduled exhibition entitled 'Two Days in the Life of the Old District Six' is going ahead. Cohen, who began photographing at age thirteen, has produced nine books in his career, two of which, entitled Images of my World I & II, are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gencor Gallery, Rand Afrikaans University, C Ring, cnr Kingsway & University Road, Auckland Park
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Botsotso/Ditsela performance production at Gallery 111.3
The writers associated with Botsotso Publishing, who are launching a collection of short stories entitled Unity in Flight, are staging a performance at James de Villiers' thrice-incarnated Gallery 111. Artists include Maropodi Hlabirwa Mapalakanye, Peter Rule, Zachariah Rapola, Michael Vines, Phaswane Mpe and Allan Kolski Horwitz. The stories, which track personal experiences as maps of the political and social through the last decade in South Africa, are described as following: "From dream to waking, from contradiction refining bitter coincidence and happy fate, the stories reflect the complexity of the last decade and its sense that nothing can be taken for granted." The performance takes place between 7.00 p.m. and 9.00 p.m. on May 4. For more information, please contact (011) 487 2112
Gallery 111.3 , Don Building, 414 Commissioner St / Cnr Grace St,, Fairview, Central Johannesburg
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'Introduction' at Spark!
The first post-renovation exhibition is currently on, featuring work by young artists Martin Roemer and Leonore Roux. Both work in mixed media painting, Roemer indulging in abstract, geometric forms, and Roux embracing the symbolic as metaphors for experience. Closing: April 29
Spark!, 10 Louis Road, Orchards
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Lyndi Sales
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Alan Crump and Lyndi Sales at the Goodman
Newcomer Lyndi Sales is unknown to Johannesburg audiences, and a new face at the Goodman, with its well established stable of artists, is always welcome. A Cape Town based artist, Sales works with light-box assemblages and the exhibition is entitled 'Ancestral Journeys'. Resembling designs for stage sets, figures from bygone ages enact tableaus of journeys, life, loss and everything else. Alan Crump presents an exhibition of powerful watercolours, again focusing on organic masses and forms such as land, both excavated and intact. His work on the recent staff show at the Standard Bank gallery was awesome. Needless to say I'm looking forward to this one.
Opening: April 21, noon
Goodman Gallery, 163 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood
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Alan Alborough
Bonnie Ntshalintshali
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Alan Alborough and Bonnie Ntshalintshali at the Standard Bank
Neither of these artists need any introduction. Alborough is the Standard Bank Young Artists award winner for 2000, and celebrated ceramicist Ntshalintshali is being honoured posthumously for her work. Interestingly, Ntshalintshali was the 1990 Standard Bank Young Artists award winner, with Fee Halsted Berning, her mentor and teacher at Admore Studios in KwaZulu Natal. Johannesburg audiences have been waiting with baited breath for Alborough's exhibition, a touring show which mutates in each new space. Both exhibitions open April 24 at 6.00 p.m.
Standard Bank Gallery, corner Simmonds and Fredericks streets, JHB
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Jürgen Schadeberg
Jürgen Schadeberg
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Jürgen Schadeberg
There is something of a mini-Jürgen Schadeberg festival on at the moment, what with great exposure for his images on the recent Oprah Winfrey Nelson Mandela special, two upcoming shows in Johannesburg, a show at New York's Axis Gallery and one just closed in Chicago. A veritable career booster if ever I saw one and a good chance for those unfamiliar with the acclaimed lensman's work to acquaint themselves. Famous for his images of Sophiatown life in the 1950's and work produced for Drum Magazine, Schadeberg pulls some surprises from the darkroom, this year celebrating 51 years of being. 'Soweto 2001' at Art on Paper When we think Jürgen Schadeberg, we think black and white images shot in Sophiatown jazz clubs and dance halls in the South African 1950's - images that despite their exuberance always revealed a more sinister subtext. He has also produced some of the most well known images of Nelson Mandela, published by media across the globe. 'Soweto 2001' is the result of a recent foray on colour work, all the images shot on site in Soweto earlier this year. Often romantically dubbed 'the father of South African photography', I wonder whether Schadeberg is experiencing his own personal African Renaissance? The exhibition opens April 7 at 3.30 p.m. and closes April 28. For further information and images, go to www.jurgenschadeberg.com
Art on Paper, 8 Main Road, Melville (next to Outer Limits book shop) 'The White Fifties in S.A.' at the Bensusan Museum of Photography with Crake Gallery preview Previously unpublished images of white (often white youth) culture, in the 1950's make their debut at a special preview at Norwood's rather silent Crake Gallery before moving to the Bensusan Museum at MuseuMAfricA later on in April. Depicting scenes of vaguely rockabilly, bored Teddy-Boy type characters at social dances or an aerial view of a crowd of pop fans going typically hysterical, this collection of photographs guarantees a different take on a period of history we're more familiar with through our parents' photograph albums. The Crake Gallery preview opens Sunday April 8 at 5.00 p.m. and closes April 14.
Crake Gallery, 35a Grant Avenue, Norwood The Bensusan exhibition opens Sunday April 22 at 4.00 p.m. and closes June 24. Bensusan Museum of Photography, Level 4, MuseuMAfricA, 121 Bree Street, Newtown, Johannesburg. Tel: (011) 833-5624. Fax: (011) 833 5636 E-mail: jfrost@mj.org.za Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Sunday: 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m
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A piece on the show
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Material Matters at the Gertrude Posel Gallery
The full title of this show is 'Material Matters: Appliques by the Weya Women of Zimbabwe and Needlework of South African Collectives'. A bit of a mouthful, but completely self-explanatory. Accompanied by a recently published book dealing with similar material culture, if you're into richly narrativized, colourful and textured embroidered panels produced with a work ethic second to none, this exhibition will be a highlight of the year. The exhibition will be opened by Professor Leila Patel, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-Principal, University of the Witwatersrand, at 5.30 p.m. on April 9.
Opening: April 09, 5.30pm
Gertrude Posel Gallery, University of Witwatersrand, Braamfontein
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Gladys Mgudlandlu (1925 - 1979)
Irma Stern (1894 - 1966)
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'Shifts...in consciousness: A Changing Heritage'
The MTN Art Institute and Camouflage join forces to present this exhibition reflecting changing attitudes towards land and people in South Africa, using works from the MTN Art Collection spanning the twentieth century. Anyone familiar with Clive van den Berg's landscape exhibition, 'Panoramas of Passage' of a few years back may find this an interesting counterpoint. The exhibition is divided into five broad groups: empty landscapes; inhabited landscapes; ethnographic portraits; exotic other and humanist portraits. By juxtaposing these conceptual constructs, the show hopes to open up assumptions about perception and representation, featuring a range of expression from 'objective' nature painting to romanticism, and socio-political realism. Although one cannot plot changes in a strict chronological fashion, the selection of work visualises the changing discourses of race and place in South Africa, aiming to assert historical agency and humanity. 'Shifts...in consciousness' is curated by Ronel Kellner and Nessa Leibhammer. Walkabouts of the exhibition can be arranged
The exhibition will be opened by Dr Yvonne Muthien (MTN Group Executive:
Opening: Saturday March 17, 6pm
Camouflage Art.Culture.Politics nucleus johannesburg africa, 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, 2193
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Arno Morland
Arno Morland
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Arno Morland at the Open Window
Arno Morland's second solo exhibition at the Open Window Art Gallery follows his successful 'Border Line' show in 1999. 'Middleclass' is a collection of allegories of the banal and suburban - eerily sparse domestic landscapes in muted tones that take the soporific disposition of 'the middle class' to task. The artist writes:
"There are some stories that are read by many, though few would be prepared to admit to it. The middleclass tale is such a story. It is a story that reaches its climax in security and comfort. Comfortable security and secure comfort. It is a popular story amongst those who favour balance; those who maintain an average; those who exclude extremes; those who remember to take out their trash on Thursdays; the owners of "weed-eaters". It is a story that passed on from generation to generation without deviation or exaggeration. It is a good story; a nice story; an old story. From them you will find out how it feels to change nothing about anything."
The exhibition opens May 2 at 7.00 p.m. with a performance by Amanda Strydom.
Opening: May 02, 7pm
Open Window Art Academy, 10 Rigel Avenue, Erasmusrand
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'Four by Four' Exhibition invitation
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'Four by Four' at the Association of Arts, Pretoria
In an artist-organised and curated exhibition, Hanneke Benade, Ruan Hoffman, Michele Nigrini and Henk Serfontein present mixed media work. Each artist produced four new works each, hence the 'Four by Four' of the title. Opening: May 06, 6pm Closing: May 17
Association of Arts, Pretoria, 173 Mackie Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
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New Acquisitions at the Unisa Art Gallery
The Unisa Art Collection is currently showcasing new acquisitions at the campus gallery, as well as selected graphic works by omen artists, from the permanent collection. As a counterpoint, curator Frieda Hattingh has selected objects from the university's archaeology and anthropology collections, featuring artefacts that employ skin, fur, wood and natural fibres. Closing: May 30
Unisa Main Campus, Theo Van Wijk Building, B-Block - 5th floor (Gold Fields Entrance)
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Exhibition invitation for 'People and Places' with details from paintings by
Adriette Mybergh (left) and Daniel Mosako (right), 1962
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'People and Places' at the Open Window
Adriette Myburgh and Daniel Mosako present painterly reflections on different social contexts. Both artists studied at the University of Pretoria, Myburgh initially studying architecture. Mosako deconstructs juxtapositions between informal settlements and urban cityscapes by constructing his images as 'jigsaw puzzles' of sorts. Closing: April 28.
Open Window Art Academy, 10 Rigel Avenue, Erasmusrand
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Vladimir Suchanek
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Vladimir Suchanek and Lene Tempelhoff at the Association of Arts, Pretoriaa
The Embassy of the Czech Republic is responsible for bringing this exhibition of graphic works by Vladimir Suchanek to South Africa. Suchanek is the President of the Association of Czech Graphic Artists and a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts. A master of colour lithography, he specialises in bibliophile prints and book illustrations. Lene Tempelhoff presents a collection of ceramics and bronzes entitled 'Seeing'. The work intends to provoke questions around transition, religion and contemplation.
Opening: April 20, 6pm
Association of Arts, Pretoria, 173 Mackie Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
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Gordon Froud
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Gordon Froud at the African Window
'Plastic by Nature (a found title)' is the title of Gordon Froud's latest solo offering, having returned from time spent abroad. An installation constructed from a variety of plastic crockery and cutlery, I caught some of this work at the Cite in Paris last year and it struck me as being badly derivative of work by Alan Alborough. Hopefully this show will prove me wrong. The exhibition will be opened by Neels Coetzee on April 21 at 2.00 p.m. and Gordelroos Productions will stage a performance. The show closes May 26.
African Window, Visagie Street
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