Woensdag 20 Juli 2011

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.

1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Artists in Dialogue II

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.

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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.

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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.

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Sinds 1846 produceert Vlisco kleurrijke stoffen die vooral worden geëxporteerd naar West en Centraal Afrika. Johan Jacobs (1881-1955) was ruim 50 jaar chef tekenkamer bij Vlisco. Hij liet zich - volgens de Art Nouveau traditie - inspireren door dier- en bloemmotieven. In de tentoonstelling  JOHAN - Made by Vlisco is een selectie van de ruime collectie stofontwerpen en tekeningen van zijn hand te zien.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Tingatinga painting is a fascinating mixture between tradition and modernity. It is named after its founder, Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932 – 1972). He found his themes in the traditional illustrations on village huts and at first he painted animals and village scenes using bicycle paint. His relations and friends also took to this art form and they organised themselves in the Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society.

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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.

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Duizenden Senegalezen proberen in kleine vissersbootjes de oversteek te maken naar de Canarische Eilanden, in de hoop een beter bestaan op te kunnen bouwen. Quax volgde de illegale immigranten en hun achterblijvers die dmv een Ndeupe - ritueel - in contact proberen te komen met de geesten en zo hopen op een betere toekomst.

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Het werk van videokunstenares Berni Searle (1964, Kaapstad) is een kritische onderzoek naar de constructie van identiteit, een ontrafeling van de manier waarop het lichaam wordt ‘betekend’ door afkomst en omgeving. Searl verleidt met beelden die betoverend en tegelijkertijd ongemakkelijk zijn.

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Centraal in het werk van Heidi Sincuba (1982 Greytown, Zuid-Afrika) staan thema’s als identiteit, seksualiteit, religie, kolonialisme en het collectieve geheugen. Sincuba verwerkt in haar schilderijen en tekeningen voorbeelden uit de kunstgeschiedenis en beelden uit de massamedia. “Mijn werk wordt constant gevoed door het heden maar houdt niet op de spoken uit mijn verleden te onderzoeken,” aldus de kunstenares.

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Shimmer is an exhibition of new and recent work by Berni Searle. Included in the exhibition is Interlaced, a major three-screen video installation. The piece presents a site-specific engagement with Bruges, Belgium, one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe.

Berni Searle: Shimmer

A selection of interior design pieces of some of today's most talented designers in South Africa. Beautiful and original handmade lighting and furniture, home and kitchen textiles, one-off ceramics, ladies shoes and other home accessories that will make you go 'wow' and smile.

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The move towards Modernist Abstraction in South African art since the early 1950s is one of the most important post-war developments which introduced new trends and significant changes in the character of local art production. The aim of the exhibition is to revisit and re-evaluate abstract art produced during the 1950s and late 1990s.

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While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960s and onwards by several members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favourite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy.

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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.

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At Home focuses on rural areas where breadwinners have migrated away in search of work, leaving behind the young and the old. For those 'left behind at home', life is slow and seemingly empty. The Ghost Towns series depicts small South African towns that have been abandoned and forgotten.

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The photographic essays Santu Mofokeng composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes.

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Eugenio Saranga (1971) mag dan afgestudeerd jurist zijn, als kunstenaar past hij in een lange, autodidactische traditie. Hij maakt vooral werken op papier en schilderijen. Wat onmiddellijk in het oog springt zijn de formaten. Bijna al zijn werken zijn liggend en (relatief) klein. Bij zijn tekeningen zou zelfs het woord ‘intiem’ niet misstaan. Intiem en kwetsbaar.

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Het verhaal van ouderen in het zorgcentrum Zorrorai en van vrijwilligers van het Home Based Care Project, waarin 49 vrouwelijke caregivers en 1 mannelijke, thuiszorg bieden aan ouderen en terminaal zieken. In het kader van het 100 Faces-project van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare.

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This year the Venice Biennal has national participations from the DR Congo, Egypt, South Africa and Zimbabwe, while Mohamed Bourouissa (Algeria), Latífa Echakhch (Morocco) and David Goldblatt and Nicholas Hlobo (South Africa) have been selected for the main exhibiition, Illuminations.

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Foto’s van Piet den Blanken: het verhaal van Afrikaanse bootvluchtelingen, die in vervallen vissersbootjes de gevaarlijke overtocht maken van Marokko naar de Canarische Eilanden (2006-2008). Ze zijn ten einde raad, hebben een uitzichtloze toekomst in eigen land en hopen op een beter bestaan in het veelbelovende Europa. Ook foto's uit eigen collectie van Vietnamese bootvluchtelingen (1975-1980).

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A dynamic group of artists who create nontraditional drawings as a means of exploring and understanding their environments. The results are more like ‘drawing’ 
than even the classic definition of drawing. Of particular interest to Nigerian artist Victor Ekpuk's project is Nsibidi, an indigenous African system of writing that employs graphic signs, and codes to convey concepts.

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Olu Amoda, Osi Audu, SoHyun Bae, Miriam Brumer, Diako, Ibrahim El-Salahi, William Engel, Romain Ganer, Bernard Guillot, Fathi Hassan, Souleymane Keita, Mohammad Omer Khalil, Khalid Kodi, Wosene Worke,  Kosrof, Donald Locke, Aime Mpane, Afi Nayo, Uche Okeke, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Mohamed-Saeed Omer, Pefura, Sumayyah Samaha, Kendall Shaw, David Smyth, Juliana Zevallos.

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Not just another tribute to Nelson Mandela, this exhibition celebrates the life and contributions of South Africa?s greatest citizen, his struggle, successes and shortcomings, as portrayed by our country's leading political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. Over  130 of his works.

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Show embraces Payne's enduring concerns with sexuality, spirituality, the dualities of the feminine and masculine; loss and reclamation. Muse is as much a spiritual quest for synthesis and self-integration as it is a homage to a subject and object of erotic love. It is as cyclical as it is evolving and as intimate as it is archetypal.

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Inkanyiso speaks about the complexities of gender and sexuality terminologies in which lesbianism or gayness (homosexuality) equals sexual orientation, and transgenderism equals gender. Inkanyiso presents those who have given of themselves to shed a light on the vast issues that continue to affect sexual minorities, especially black queers.

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Beguiling encompasses a broad negotiation of the use of the body as a conduit for investigating social and existential circumstance, the relationship between the self and the subject; the captured,the projected and the portrait. Work by Lisa Brice, Steven Cohen, Georgina Gratrix, Hasan & Husain, Essop, Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi, Andrew Putter, Claudette Schreuders, Guy Tillim, Nontsikelelo Veleko, Sue Williamson, and Irma Stern.

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From its inception in the early 1980s, while South Africa was still under the rule of the apartheid regime, Alexander’s artistic practice has been deeply sensitive to socio-political issues as a part of her interest and observation of human and other animal behaviour in and beyond her own social environment.

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Mainly artists from Southern Africa. Explores landscape typologies in South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. The concept of landscape here is not linked to historical notions of the picturesque and the sublime. Instead, the exhibition considers landscape as a prism of experience, a reflection of ideology, and a stage for the performance and perception of identity.

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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.

Ranjith Kally at Iziko South African National Gallery

Not directly confrontational, Searle often uses her own body in performative video works. She explores aspects of her heritage and the way in which this intersects with gender, history and memory in order to question the notion of identity and to examine the residual effects of colonialism and apartheid as well as ideas relating to migration, nationalism and xenophobia in various contexts.

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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).

Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents

This striking collection of photographs, exhibited here for the first time in more than fifty years, offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of apartheid through the 1950s and beyond. The images were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s and provide a rich and intimate description of life in a number of townships and areas of the city: Windermere, the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa and Nyanga.

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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.

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