Donderdag 19 Mei 2011
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective
Selection of work charting the scope of artistic production in South Africa over the last century. Modern gems and rare treasures by Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, George Pemba, Maggie Laubser, Gerard Bhengu, JH Pierneef, Durant Sihlali, Dumile Feni & others.
African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting
Showcases museum purchases and gifts and provides a glimpse into collecting opportunities for art museums. Centerpiece: a towering and visually striking sculpture of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture by contemporary Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow.
Geheime relaties, oude en nieuwe kunst verbonden
De tentoonstelling toont hedendaagse kunst uit Afrika en de Afrikaanse diaspora samen met objecten uit de collectie traditionele kunst. Deze oude & nieuwe kunstobjecten vinden hun relatie in de Afrikaanse gebruiken of rituelen waaraan ze gerelateerd zijn.
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife in Ancient Nigeria
More than 100 extraordinary sculptures, dating from the 12th to the 15th century. Artists at Ife, the ancient Yoruba city state, created a unique sculptural corpus which ranks among the world's most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated.
El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
Brings together the full range of the artist’s work, from wood trays referring to traditional symbols of the Akan people of Ghana; to early ceramics from the artist’s Broken Pots series, driftwood assemblages that refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and wooden sculptures carved with a chainsaw; to the luminous metal wall-hangings of recent years.
De kracht van zilver, sieraden uit de collectie van Smith-Hutschenruyter
Deze bijzondere collectie sieraden is afkomstig uit een gebied dat zich uitstrekt van Noord-Afrika, Midden-Oosten en Azië. Ze vertellen het krachtige verhaal van schoonheid, vakmanschap en economische waarde. Ze staan voor esthetiek, maar ook voor magische spiritualiteit. Deze recent geschonken collectie wordt nu voor het eerst tentoongesteld.
Artists in Dialogue II
The exhibition Artists in Dialogue: Sandile Zulu and Henrique Oliveira is the second in a series of exhibitions in which exciting artists (at least one of whom is African) are invited to a new encounter -- one in which each artist responds to the work of the other, and resulting in original, site-specific works at the museum.
Fetish Modernity. Iedereen modern
In het Westen hebben we de neiging om de wereld in te delen in ‘Wij’ versus de ‘Anderen’. We denken al snel een monopolie te hebben op alles wat modern is. Fetish Modernity toont dat dit absoluut niet het geval is en dat er ook buiten het Westen belangrijke vernieuwingen ontstaan.
Kunstenaars in Residentie: Sammy Baloji en Patrick Mudekereza
Resultaten van het verblijf najaar 2010 van fotograaf Sammy Baloji en schrijver Patrick Mudekereza (DR Congo) in het museum. Zij wierpen een eigentijdse blik op het koloniale verleden om zo tot een dialoog te komen tussen de creativiteit van toen en die van nu.
Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now
Drawn entirely from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now features nearly 100, posters, books, and wall stencils created over the last five decades that demonstrate the exceptional reach, range, and impact of printmaking during and after a period of enormous political upheaval.
Blueprints of Paradise
Een tentoonstelling - ism African Architecture Matters - over architectuur en de snelle veranderingen die het Afrikaanse continent ondergaan. Na aanleiding van een competitie onder Afrikaanse kunstenaars en architecten over de vraag hoe westerse musea hedendaags Afrika zouden moeten representeren, zijn werken geselecteerd die op deze tentoonstelling zijn te zien.
World Press Photo 2011
Jaarlijkse winnaarstentoonstelling. Foto van het jaar ging naar Jodi Bieber (Zuid-Afrika) voor haar portret van een Afghaans meisje voor Time, maar ook haar landgenoten Mike Hutchings (sport) en Thomas P. Peschak (natuur) en Somaliër Feisal Omar (dagelijks leven) zijn onderscheiden.
Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography
Presents the vibrant and sophisticated photographic culture that has emerged in post-apartheid South Africa, responding to the country's powerful rethinking of issues of identity across race, gender, class and politics. Work by Jodi Bieber, Kudzanai Chiurai, David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Mikhael Subotzky, Nontsikelelo Veleko and others.
Drawing by Nature
Kunstenaars die zich toeleggen op tekenen. Mix van figuratieve en abstracte tekeningen met potlood en pastel, variërend van natuurlijke tekeningen van mensen, planten en dieren tot Afrikaanse grafische codes en symbolen. Emma van Drongelen, Laura Sassen, Joost Bakker (NL), Victor Ekpuk (Nigeria). Ekpuk baseert zich in zijn tekeningen op Nsibidi, een inheemse Afrikaanse taal die is opgebouwd uit grafische symbolen en codes.
galeriesanaa africaserver (interview met Victor Ekpuk)
Library of the infinitesimally small and the unimaginably large - Barbara Wildenboer
Using images and metaphor to investigate the scientific contents of found reference books, Barbara Wildenboer tries to make sense of phenomena such as fractal geometry and the interconnectedness of all living things by creating visual metaphors that speak of a sense of wonder at the complicated beauty of patterns in nature.
As Terras do Fim do Mundo - Jo Ractliffe
Nearly 60 evocative black and white landscapes. Guided by a group of former South African Defence Force soldiers, on their first trip back to the Angolan countryside since the 1988 ceasefire at Cuito Cuanavale, Ractliffe documents what she terms as the 'landscape of leftovers' from the country's devastating 27-year civil war.
David Goldblatt - Lifetimes: Under Apartheid
Photographer David Goldblatt (b.1930) has explored the social landscape of his home country of South Africa since the late 1940s. In 1987, he generously donated a large collection of his work to the V&A Museum. View a selection of these images, focussing on the later years under apartheid rule, alongside important books by Goldblatt.
Nicholas Hlobo: Sculpture, Installation, Performance, Drawing
A number of works that show how Hlobo uses sculpture, installation, performance and drawing to address issues of gender, cultural difference and contemporary politics. Hlobo’s work implicates viewers in the scenario of South African culture, providing enough clues to bridge the differences between his local cultural sensitivities and those of a global art world.
Penny Siopis - Who's Afraid of the Crowd?
In this exhibition Siopis continues her longstanding interest in the tension between form and formlessness, figure and ground. As before, her medium and process of working are as much conceptual as they are the means to create an image; be it ink and glue paintings, or the 8mm home movie footage she uses to compose her video.
Paul Edmunds - Tone
As Edmunds observes, many of us have a long and close relationship with music. From elements which are often non-narrative, mostly repetitive and largely abstract, we extract or assemble meaningful experience, repeatedly. In a series of pencil drawings, a linocut and two sculptures, Edmunds uses only line and its sculptural equivalent, edge, to explore visual correspondents for music and sound, and their constituent parts.
Lerato Shadi - 50 g and Tlhogo
In the video In 50 g, a locked-off, close-up shot of a woman's bust is shown; in the foreground her hands crochet a piece of fabric using red wool. Glimpses of the body can be seen as the hands move in a rhythmic pattern. For the performance Tlhogo, Shadi crocheted a cocoon from hand-spun wool of various origins. The red woollen sheath was created specifically to fit her body, with just enough space left open for her to enter it.
Ibrahim El-Salahi - From Time to Time
El-Salahi draws on the rich literary and visual heritage of his homeland Sudan, combined with a rigorous compositional organization that seeks to balance spatial and structural concerns with an ability to reconcile intelligence and sensibility, knowledge and intuition as well as matter and spirit.
Interlaced - solotentoonstelling van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad)
Zij maakt intrigerende installaties, met gefilmde performances, enorme fotoprints & gevonden voorwerpen en haar eigen lichaam als onderwerp & uitgangspunt. Zij bedekt zichzelf met lagen van kleurrijke & aromatische kruiden of andere opvallende substanties.
Beyond the Horizon - werk van vier Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars
Rode draad is hun visie op identiteit in een zogenaamd 'rassenloze' Zuid-Afrikaanse maatschappij. Met: Zanele Muholi (Umlazi, Durban, 1972), Dineo Seshee Bopape (Polokwane, 1981), Yvette Dunn (Durban, 1979) & Frances Goodman (Johannesburg, 1975).
ARS 11 - Africa in Comtemporary Art
Exhibition investigates Africa in contemporary art. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work. Some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The exhibition aims to extend the idea of what Africa, contemporary art and African contemporary art are today.
Michael Taylor - The tenacious tree huggers
New series of paintings that portray a cast of awkward characters and their relationships to their personal environments. The paintings are character sketches of individuals struggling against the unpredictable ways of nature. These imagined people are not only confounded by the shifting occurrences within their environments, they are also troubled by their own individual natures.
Fototentoonstelling Still and Moving
Beelden uit Johannesburg door Iris Vetter. De tentoonstelling is te bezichtigen van dinsdag tot en met vrijdag van
10.00-16.00. Toegang: gratis.
Een brug van glas
Bijzondere glaskunst van Studio Emmanuel en van glass fusion artist Frank van den Ham. De studio, opgericht door Van den Ham, begon in Alexandra, een township in Johannesburg, waar Frank met lokale kunstenaars de ramen voor een museum in die township maakte. Intussen is een studio opgericht in Magaliesburg, niet al te ver van Johannesburg. Wo en za 10-17, do en vr 10-18 uur.
Osagie Edomwandagbon
Uit de schilderijen en tekeningen van Osagie Edomwandagbon (Nigeria/Nederland) spreekt eenzelfde soort energie als uit de Vrijheidsschreeuw, het schilderij van Karel Appel dat als exemplarisch wordt beschouwd voor de COBRA beweging. Een haast kinderlijk enthousiasme om aan iets nieuws te beginnen en de beklemming van het verleden achter je te laten.
Tinga Tinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tinga Tinga sounds as it looks: colourful,cheerful, catchy and even cheeky. This exhibition displays the work of eleven artists from the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania). Each has his or her own individual style. Each piece is unique. Come and immerse yourself in the fasciniating world of Tinga Tinga.
Stefanus Rademeyer- Resonant Structures
In his first solo exhibition at Goodman Gallery Cape Stefanus Rademeyer expands on his interdisciplinary approach to art-making; intersecting the seemingly unlikely fields of art and mathematics. Rademeyer has developed algorithms that describe the inherent form of various natural structures which are then translated into visual images using digital processes.
Zwelethu Mthethwa - photographs
New photographic work by Zwelethu Mthethwa. The Brave Ones is a series of portraits – often, group portraits – of young men from the Shembe Church group during their annual pilgrimage to the sacred mountain of Nhlangakazi in KwaZulu Natal. The End of an Era, an exercise in 'still life' photography, is set in Johannesburg’s hostels for migrant male labourers.
Ranjith Kally: Through the lens of Durban's veteran photographer
Many Durbanites have known Ranjith Kally's work from the social pages of local newspapers for decades, but this 85 year old photographer received scant recognition before his first solo exhibition, which opened in Johannesburg in 2004. Kally has portrayed some of the most important and glamorous figures in South African history, including Nelson Mandela, Chief Albert Luthuli, Miriam Makeba and Sonny Pillay.
The Indian in DRUM Magazine in the 1950s
Photos from the DRUM magazine archives from the 1950s. These photos, mainly from Durban, give glimpses of an' Indian' underworlds, shantytowns, bohemian jazz clubs and movie houses, cosmopolitan political activists, masculine identities and notions of modern 'Indian' women.
Ranjith Kally: Through the lens of Durban's veteran photographer
Many Durbanites have known Ranjith Kally's work from the social pages of local newspapers for decades, but this 85 year old photographer received scant recognition before his first solo exhibition, which opened in Johannesburg in 2004. The exhibition is an acknowledgement of Kally's work since 1945.
Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from 3 Continents
Works featured in this installation are highly creative re-imaginings of the iconic form of the African mask. Among them are sculptural assemblages made of incongruous combinations of discarded materials by two contemporary artists from the Republic of Benin, Romuald Hazoumé (b. 1962) and Calixte Dakpogan (b. 1958).
Photography: New Documentary Forms - Guy Tillim
Explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Includes work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim (South Africa) and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
