Maandag 13 Februari 2012

Gamberini’s sculptures possess a sense of spontaneity and humour which is their immediate attraction. A closer examination of the works reveals the mark of a man who has mastered the art of assemblage in a way that is seemingly effortless. His hybrid animal and mechanical forms hint vaguely at the use of shape and form that can be seen in much of Picasso’s work.

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Caryn Scrimgeour was born in Johannesburg in 1970 and has lived in Cape Town since 1972.  In 1991 she graduated from the University of Stellenbosch with a B.A in Fine Art. Caryn’s subject matter is chosen from commonplace objects that surround her; objects that are fragile and precious are juxtaposed with ordinary mundane items, which in turn are elevated to the same level of importance.

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Houghton’s oil paintings mark a divergence in style from the accuracy and precision of his ink drawings and water colours of athletes and the sporting environment around them. In his paintings, Houghton takes the flamingo in its natural wetland habitat as his subject matter after having taken a keen interest in the wetlands and it’s most popular inhabitant, the pink flamingo, during his time in South Africa.

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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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In juli 2012 sluit het museum voor een grondige renovatie. Deze tentoonstelling biedt de bezoeker een uniek kijkje achter de schermen. In een parcours met 30 stops wordt antwoord gegeven op uiteenlopende vragen, zoals wat doet een indiaan nu in een museum over Afrika? De stops presenteren markante feiten uit de geschiedenis van het museum en werpt tevens een licht op de toekomstplannen.

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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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Focuses on Egyptian burial ritual, its place with ancient Egyptian cosmology, and the insights that mummies, burial ritual, and cosmology provide about life in ancient Egypt. Understand how burial practices and associated religious beliefs serve as windows into world cultures. Explore the ways in which mummies, tombs, and Egyptian mythology open new windows into the lives of ancient Egyptians.

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Images by Congolese photographer and video artist Sammy Baloji feature the industrial landscapes around Lumbumbasi, the capital city of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The images serve as a visual indictment of the failed postcolonial leadership that mismanaged and squandered Katanga’s industrial resources, its modernity, and the economic prosperity of the region.

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In the exhibition Ghana; An Organic Experience the focus is on Ghana, and the way traditional organic materials and methods have been reintroduced in modern urban planning. The architect Joe Addo was invited to select several of his projects in Accra and the new towns of Teema and Takoradi, which make use of these materials and methods.

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Karoo Highveld is the first showing of the work by British artist Richard Long in South Africa, and, indeed, the first on the African continent. Since his early work, the internationally renowned artist has maintained an affinity for Africa’s diverse landscapes and has returned to the continent several times over the years to create his unique sculptural works directly in the landscape. Twice, in 2004 and 2009, Long visited South Africa and produced works in the Karoo and in the Highveld.

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Unfolding as a spectacular journey up the Benue River, Central Nigeria Unmasked introduces major artistic genres and styles associated with more than twenty-five ethnic groups living along the river's Lower, Middle, and Upper reaches. These diverse and remarkable artworks include sculptural forms in wood, ceramic, and metal.

nmafa-si

While Jane Alexander’s figures are, in many ways, emblems of monstrosity, they are oddly beautiful. Her creatures expose the human animal for all it is and all it could become. Though clearly concerned with social issues, Alexander’s sculptural installations and photographs do not judge, nor do they convey a particular political or moral standpoint.

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Examines the complexity and internal contradictions of the conceptual framework of victims and martyrs. The exhibiting artists interpret, activate and stage the landscape where victimisation and martyrdom takes place. Boundaries between victims and perpetrators dissolve and the premises that maintain and reproduce these roles are scrutinized.

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De serie “Beelden van Zambia”van Wim Reimert toont een aantal houten beeldjes, afkomstig uit Senanga, Western Province, groot geschilderd in Fries tegenlicht en geplaatst in een verzonnen natuur. De titels van de schilderijen zijn namen van bevriende Zambianen. Zijn serie “Kleuren van Namibië” vormt een geabstraheerde weergave van het ongelooflijk weidse en lege Namibische landschap. De titels verwijzen naar de plaats of streek waarop het werk is geïnspireerd.

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First solo show by artist/sculptor Stuart Bird. In a series of meticulously and often obsessively hand-crafted sculptures and installations, Bird explores the position of the artist and the individual in contemporary South Africa. The presence of the artist is central to the exhibition: the careful, painstaking carving of each letter and shape from a block of raw wood, and the slow and repetitive sanding and polishing of each layer and surface can be read as a kind of ritual, or perhaps an atonement.

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Skoto Gallery was established in 1992 as a space where some of the best works by African artists can be exhibited within the context of a diverse audience. The gallery sees art in ecumenical terms and often organizes exhibitions to show the submerged relationships of a post-modern global culture after modernism.

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Hoe Nederlandse stoffen van het Helmondse bedrijf Vlisco onderdeel werden van verschillende West- en Centraal Afrikaanse culturen én hun weg vonden in de internationale mode, beeldende kunst en fotografie. Met werk van kunstenaars, fotografen en modeontwerpers. Uit Afrika onder meer Yinka Shonibare, Wangechi Mutu, Fatimah Tuggar, Seydou Keïta, Meschac Gaba en Bodys Isek Kingelez.

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Combines various elements drawn from researched material and memory. The term is a label for that which is outside of the norms in society. Drawing from a collection of various ‘love’ territories previously inhabited by the artist, a fragile and personal point of view emerges from a space that has previously been framed as ‘political’.

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'Found in Translation' brings together recent works by nine artists who look to translation as both a model and a metaphor to critically comment on the past and to produce richly imagined possibilities for the present. For these artists, converting a text from one language to another exposes a discursive field in which the terms of identity—class, race, religion, sexuality—are negotiated, and meaning is generated. One of them is South African Siemon Allen.

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Periphery finds Tom Cullberg navigating the borderland between the tangible and intangible and is the first solo exhibition in which his abstracts will be experienced alongside his signature cover portraits. Despite the seemingly separate elements, it is undoubtedly a homogenous body of work; the combination of abstract paint-scapes and representational cover portraits never feels disparate. The two styles work together to flesh out Cullberg’s painterly objectives.

brundyngonsalves

It is just over a century since Lucy Lloyd, on behalf of herself and Wilhelm Bleek, published the book Specimens of Bushman Folklore, the realisation of a lifetime’s work of the study of |xam and !kun, two Bushman languages of Southern Africa. Now Professor Pippa Skotnes has curated an exhibition called Landscape to Literature, originally conceived to mark the 2011 centenary of the publication of Specimens of Bushman Folklore.

originscentre

Since 2010, countries from the Arab world have been going through a period of rapid and radical change. An exhibition and series of events exploring other junctures from the last fifty years that have led to radical changes, such as revolutions, the rise and fall of regimes and ideologies, as well as social and political movements whose effects were felt around the world and to this date. From South Africa, David Goldblatt, Steven Cohen and William Kentridge take part.

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A series of photographs taken over a four year period. Explorers the quiet, vast, Karoo landscape. Far from being superficial postcards, the photographer through the images, introduces the viewer to the individuals who invigorate the landscape with warmth, pride and dignity. This lyrical series reflects on the complicated and yet simply union, between man and the land.

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A series of paintings that draw on the artists visits to the coastal forest in the nature reserve at Cwebe in the Eastern Cape. This series of paintings encompass through colour the lush forests, and with emotive line her memories of that landscape. The meditative act of painting allows Angela Briggs to explore the paradox of articulating something at the level of detailed observation, and simultaneously through an emotive gesture.

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Ahmed Bamba fotografeert concerten, met als doel de interactie tussen de artiesten en het publiek vast te leggen. In zijn concertfoto’s zie je de dynamiek van het optreden. De uitbundigheid en de dansen legt hij vast op wervelende foto’s, wanneer de musici helemaal opgaan in hun muziek. Je kunt duidelijk zien hoe het publiek wordt opgezweept door de swingende klanken, maar ook de meer intieme momenten tijdens ballades laat hij zien. Als je zijn foto’s bekijkt kun je de muziek bijna horen. Te bezichtigen woensdag 15:30-18:30, tijdens concerten (met geldig entreebewijs), en di-do-vr op afspraak tijdens kantooruren.

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The title comes from the new work Extra (2011), a single-channel video as well as a series of photographs created on the set of the popular local soap opera, Generations. Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from the soap, sometimes subtly, sometimes awkwardly and absurdly, but always without judgement or easy explanation. Here she resonates as a conspicuously white presence amongst an otherwise black cast. Other works included are Factum (2010), a series of dual-channel installations, each of which juxtaposes the testimonies of a pair of identical twins, whom Breitz interviewed individually at length, and Mother + Father (2005), a pair of video installations that features a selection of fictional parental characters drawn from popular cinema.

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