Archive: Issue No. 98, October 2005

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7.10.05 K.O. Video Festival at various KZN venues
7.10.05 Garret Artists at artSPACE durban
7.10.05 Wim Botha at the TAG
7.10.05 Liesbeth Groenewald at the TAG
7.10.05 Themba Shibase at the KZNSA Gallery
7.10.05 Aidan Walsh at the KZNSA Gallery
7.10.05 Colleen Alborough at the KZNSA Gallery
7.10.05 'Imagination Lab' at artSPACE durban
7.10.05 The Johansson Collection at the TAG
 

DURBAN

KO video invite

KO video Invite
 


K.O. Video Festival at various KZN venues

The KO Video - First Durban Video Festival is brought to Durban by PULSE, the artist-run initiative co-ordinated by Durban-based artist Greg Streak. The KO Video Festival runs from October 1-31 and sees as many as 150 contemporary video works from around theworld, being shown at five different venues across the city of Durban. The works are shown in cinema-type screenings with each country's work collected on a looped DVD. Works come from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, India/Pakistan, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa and a host of other countries. Participating venues are: The Durban Art Gallery, KZNSA Gallery, Imagination Lab (Westville), artSPACE durban and Ikhaya Media Lab (Kwa-Mashu).

A conference will be held on Friday October 12 at the Ikhaya Media Lab in Kwa-Mashu from 9.30 am. All screenings and the conference are free of charge and open to everyone. The KO Video Festival is made possible with the support of DOEN, Rijksakademie v.b.k., The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Development Cooperation and the RAIN Artists' Initiatives Network.

Opens: October 1
Closes: October 31


Les Goodman

Les Goodman
Untitled
Mixed media
29.7 X 21cm

Maggie Strachan

Maggie Strachan
Untitled
Pen and ink
105 X 148cm

Gayle Walters

Gayle Walters
Untitled
Charcoal and pencil
30cm X 40cm
 


Garret Artists at artSPACE durban

The Garret Artists, co-ordinated by fibre/textile artist Jeanette Gilks will be exhibiting a selection of mixed media drawings at artSPACE durban. The exhibition, entitled 'All Dolled Up' aims to explore how 2- dimensional images have been transformed through the medium of technology and explores how students have gained insight into processing, re-working and manipulating existing images. These drawings will expose a variety of inspirations and a diverse range of images will emerge.

Opens: October 4
Closes: October 22



Wim Botha at the TAG

Wim Botha, winner of the 2005 Standard Bank Young Artist Award, is essentially an installation artist, working with multiple media to produce sculpture, etchings, paintings and drawings. His work is characterised by, amongst other things, a reflection and subversion of the symbolic imagery of power, religion and art history. The artist asks questions related to the underlying implications of systems and structures that attempt to define who we are.

Botha graduated from the University of Pretoria in 1996 and has since become one of the most prominent young artists in South Africa. He has held four solo exhibitions and his work has been included in group exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Opens: October 6
Closes: November 6



Liesbeth Groenewald at the TAG

An exhibition of works by Liesbeth Groenewald entitled 'Alex Angel' is currently on view at the Tatham Art Galllery, Pietermaritzburg. As a part-time pharmacist at Ladysmith Provincial Hospital, Groenewald is fascinated by the combination of the physical and spiritual in gravestone angels. She is interested in the passage of time often recorded by these angels and their endurance through the years, characterised by their changing surface qualities. Some gather moss and fungi while deteriorate. Groenewald explores the aesthetic significance of these factors utilising various computer technologies. When her son, Alex, died in 2003, 'this preoccupation turned into one of the illusiveness of angels and the soul'. She started illustrating her late son's poems, which were written over 7 or 8 years, using computer-generated images.

Opens: September 15
Closes: October 23


Themba Shibase

Themba Shibase
Untitled, 2005
Mixed media on Paper
 


Themba Shibase at the KZNSA Gallery

In an exhibition of paintings titled 'd'urban critique', Durban-based artist Themba Shibase will present a body of work on found board and paper. Shibase interrogates new identities in an urban context and his works are based on the relationships between traditional cultural manifestations and the contemporary world. He is currently completing his MA in Fine Art at the Durban Institute of Technology and is the curator of the Art Gallery at D.I.T.

Opens: October 15
Closes: November 13


Aidan Walsh

Aidan Walsh
Sacred Stones, 2005
Oil on Canvas
 


Aidan Walsh at the KZNSA Gallery

Aidan Walsh, the well-known Durban painter is presenting a series of new paintings, investigating and depicting Karoo landscapes and scenes. As a consumate observationist, Walsh provides a fascinating portrayal of his journeys through the hinterlands, establishing an empathy with the subject, and allows new readings of these seemingly desolated and 'empty' spaces.

Opens: October 15
Closes: November 13


Colleen Alborough

Colleen Alborough

Colleen Alborough
Night Journey, 2005
Installation (detail)
 


Colleen Alborough at the KZNSA Gallery

Colleen Alborough's installation 'Night Journey' provides an interactive environment that relies on viewer participation, using technology in a way that is quite novel in the visual arts in SouthAfrica. Inviting active engagement, the installation explores and interrogates the epic journeys we embark on when the night shuts out our visible reality, and gives free reign to our hopes, fantasies, dreams, fears and nightmares.

As an artist Alborough is interested in the intersection between traditional art media and new technologies. She has presented labour-intensive environments utilising digital applications, which are combined into evocative and experiential spaces that foreground questions around identity, memory, social interactions and responsibilities and the exploration of self.

Opens: October 15
Closes: November 13


Imagination Lab

Imagination Lab
Installation (detail)
 


Imagination Lab at artSPACE durban

Imagination Lab presents an installation of student work from the past year, including a vast and varied exploration of concepts, places and media. Both the Westville and the Kwa Mashu campuses will be working in the gallery for a week prior to the opening, creating site-specific installations.

The Imagination Lab, as a joint initiative by Vega The Brand Communications School and CAFÉ (Communications and Advertising Forum for Empowerment), plays a crucial role in transforming the creative communication industry in South Africa. The Lab acts as a launch pad for young multi-skilled conceptual thinkers and dynamic problem solvers; individuals who challenge the conventional approach to creativity, business and life. Their aim is to encourage cultural and social sensitivity in students, so that the students can make informed creative decisions.

Opens: October 24
Closes: November 05



The Johansson Collection at the TAG

Uno and Lillemor Johansson worked at Rorke's Drift during the mid-1970s, during which time they acquired craft and art produced by students, a number of whom have subsequently become well-known South African artists. A generous donation by the Johanssons to the Tatham Art Gallery includes a collection of 31 prints, including work by Vuminkosi Zulu, Vincent Baloyi, Eric Mbatha and Caiphas Nxumalo.

Opens: October 27
Closes: December 4

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