Current Review(s)
Concrete and Coffins
Ledelle Moe at Commune.1Concrete is a magical substance. We use more concrete than any other substance, barring water. It’s as close as we have gotten to creating rock, yet before it sets it is pourable, moldable and mutable. We think of concrete as unchanging and permanent, but its chemical structure changes over time, making it harder and stronger. Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, didn’t use concrete because it doesn't degrade into ruins: when building an empire to last the ages, its eventual ruins must be epic and yet romantic. However, some of the most epic ruined structures are made from concrete, in particular the Colosseum, while the largest unreinforced concrete dome is Rome’s Pantheon.
08 May 2014 - 06 June 2014
Concrete and Coffins
Ledelle Moe at Commune.1Concrete is a magical substance. We use more concrete than any other substance, barring water. It’s as close as we have gotten to creating rock, yet before it sets it is pourable, moldable and mutable. We think of concrete as unchanging and permanent, but its chemical structure changes over time, making it harder and stronger. Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, didn’t use concrete because it doesn't degrade into ruins: when building an empire to last the ages, its eventual ruins must be epic and yet romantic. However, some of the most epic ruined structures are made from concrete, in particular the Colosseum, while the largest unreinforced concrete dome is Rome’s Pantheon.
08 May 2014 - 06 June 2014
Listings(s)
'Erosion'
Ledelle Moe at Bank Gallery'Erosion' is a solo show by US-based South African artist Ledelle Moe. The exhibition consists of a single colossal figure constructed from concrete and steel and represents an element in Moe’s ongoing 'Erosion' series. Inspired in part by her recent study of graveyard statuary, the work is a sculptural enquiry into what the artist calls the 'inflated and deflated' nature of the human form. In critiquing the monumental, Moe's work resonates with excesses of capitalism, in the process redefining what it is to be heroic.
11 June 2009 - 11 July 2009
'Traces'
Ledelle Moe and Miranda Pfeiffer at Commune.1Commune.1 is pleased to announce two upcoming solo exhibitions jointly titled 'Traces', by South African born sculptor Ledelle Moe and Baltimore-based Miranda Pfeiffer.
The scale and posture of Moe’s monumental cement and steel sculptures situate the viewer in an uncanny relationship to her subjects and by doing so alter their orientation in space. In this way her work provokes questions about human relationships to nature, to the spaces we occupy and the markers we leave behind. Moe’s central installation, featuring two immense recumbent birds, recalls the mythology of the sunbird and the ancient form of the sarcophagus.
Pfeiffer’s large-scale drawings, rendered in painstaking detail with the fine tip of a mechanical pencil, capture moments and locations with dramatic implication. The narratives she evokes are not easily located in a specific time or a familiar setting, instead they portray a fictitious land with endless possibility.
In 'Traces' the contrasting motifs found in nature such as birth and death, light and dark, the solid and the ephemeral in addition to the accepted limits of form, time and space are held in suspense. Both artists ask the viewer to consider a different set of rules, allowing imagination and mythology to intervene.
08 May 2014 - 06 June 2014
'Fragile Histories, Fugitive Lives'
Keith Dietrich and Ledelle Moe at University of Stellenbosch Art GalleryUS is proud to announce two solo exhibitions from Keith Dietrich and Ledelle Moe. The exhibition will be opened by Prof Virginia McKenney on 18 September at 18h00, and will run from 10 September to 27 September.
10 September 2014 - 27 September 2014
'Ground'
Carol-Anne Gainer and Ledelle Moe at Commune.1In 'Ground', artists Ledelle Moe and Carol-Anne Gainer explore landscape and place both as specific geographies of location and sites of memory. The two artists investigate the concept of ground in ways that are resonant and yet distinct; Gainer’s work engages the history of the acculturation of nature while Moe creates monumental sculptures using soil from specific locations. For their exhibition at Commune 1, both artists see the laying of ground as the foundation for developing new vocabularies around place and belonging.
02 August 2012 - 30 August 2012