[6.07.08] 'Between Meaning and Matter' at Bell-Roberts
Katharine Jacobs reviews 'Between Meaning and Matter' which served to inaugurate the Bell-Roberts' new space just next door to Michael Stevenson and downstairs from the Goodman. Confessing that her expectations were high, she leaves slightly disappointed although she does draw some satisfying curatorial links between works by Norman O'Flynn, Anthony Strack, Amelia Smith, and Kevin Brand, and takes delight in video pieces by Jacques Coetzer and Fahama Pecou.
STUDENT REVIEWS
[6.07.08] 'Prints and Editions' at Whatiftheworld
Johannesburg-based student Lauren von Gogh visits Whatiftheworld for the first time. 'Prints and Editions', she suggests, 'has a lot to offer from the 15 artists/collaborations on show, illustrating innovative ways of re-imagining the idea of prints and editions'.
[6.07.08] 'Ánima' at Resolution Gallery
Cara Snyman reviews 'Ánima' a show featuring digital prints by Fernando Maquieira and Pasqual Tarazona at Resolution Gallery. The former's large portraits of primates and the latter's evocative ink blot-type works both consider 'the broad themes of life and death, of human mortality, though the image of the animal'.
[6.07.08] Wilma Cruise at Kizo Gallery
Carol Brown reviews Wilma Cruise's 'Cocks, Asses, & (I Can't Hear)' at Kizo Gallery. The artist's life-size figures are immediately striking, and her examination of the relationship between animals and humans, using the body as 'palette and page on which I project the inchoate and unsaid in an attempt to understand'.
[6.07.08] Leora Farber 'Dis-location/Re-Location' at Durban Art Gallery
Leora Farber's travelling exhibition 'Dis-location/Re-Location' moves to the Durban Art Gallery. Sally-Ann Murray reviews.
