Keiskamma Art Project’s retrospective exhibition opens at Constitution Hill
Founded in 2000, the Keiskamma Art Project in Hamburg, Eastern Cape, produces major textile artworks, which aid in the archiving of the rural Eastern Cape’s collective memory and the preservation of oral history. The exhibition – titled Umaf’ Evuka, nje Ngenyanga/Dying and Rising, As the Moon Does – marks the first time most of the Keiskamma tapestries are together in one place, including the famous Guernica as well as the 120 metre long Keiskamma tapestry, which was mercifully saved from the fire at Parliament earlier this year. The exhibition opened over the Heritage Day weekend, and can be viewed at Constitution Hill until March 2023.
Latitudes to launch a physical fair in May 2023
Latitudes began as a physical art fair, on Nelson Mandela Square, Johannesburg, in September 2019. After growing their online art platform for the past two years, they will present our second physical edition 26-28 May 2023. Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) is the title sponsor of the event, which will take place at Shepstone Gardens.
ICA launches Season 3 of their podcast
The ICA is launching Season 3 of their podcast Wednesday, 7 October at 6pm. Season 3, hosted by Nkgopoleng Moloi, focuses on seven artists featured at the 2022 ICA Live Art Festival: Tandile Mbatsha, Asemahle Ntlonti, Qondiswa James, Russel Hlongwane, Lukhanyiso Skosana, Nkosenathi Koela and Kolawole Gbolahan. Featuring Atiyyah Khan and Nkgopoleng Moloi, the event will take place at Hiddingh Hall, UCT Hiddingh Campus, with drinks from 5.30PM. RSVP here.
Georgina Gratrix at the Irma Stern Museum
Last Saturday saw the opening of The Cult of Ugliness, an exhibition by Georgina Gratrix at the UCT Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town. As part of the museum’s 50th anniversary year, Gratrix worked as artist-in-residence from July to September 2022 and the artworks produced during this time will be on show to the public from 28 September 2022 onwards.
Georgina Gratrix, 2 Faces Jug (168) with Nasty Blooms, 2022. Courtesy of SMAC Gallery.
Shortly after Stern’s first exhibition in South Africa a century ago in 1922, she was lambasted in the local media, with one critic referring to her work as a “Freak Picture Exhibition” in a review titled “Art of Miss Irma Stern – Ugliness as a Cult.” 100 years later, Gratrix takes this sentiment as her point of departure to examine the ways in which Modernism, and in particular German Expressionism has made an impact on her own work. “All painting is a conversation with the history of painting,” says Gratrix describing her intentions for her upcoming show. There will be a walkabout with the artist on Wednesday, 5 October 2022 at 3pm.
