Maandag 26 Maart 2012

In 2010, Tillim (South Africa) bought a catamaran and sailed from New Zealand to the Polynesian islands, seeking to portray the modern landscapes of these ‘paradise islands’. His intensely light, vividly colourful, windblown landscapes reveal these landscapes as being new, up to date, and full of life.

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We have now moved to a better location located only a few meters away from the previous one. More spacious, brighter, enabling us to welcome our guests in a better environment. You are welcome to our opening night. A gender mix and a show of paintings, drawings and mixed media, featuring two artist painters: David Kigozi (Uganda) and Obiageli Okigbo (Nigeria).

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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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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.

El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa

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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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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In olieverf toont Asaph Batecereza krachtige Ugandese beelden van muzikanten, dansers en de relatie tussen mens en natuur. Het sterke licht- donker contrast in zijn werk laat ons meereizen naar een magische sfeer van kale bomen, dansende vrouwen met waterkruiken op hun hoofd en pijprokende eenzame mannen.

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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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'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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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.

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De carrière van de fotograaf Pieter Hugo (Johannesburg, 1976) is met recht ‘booming’ te noemen. Zijn monumentale foto’s, waarin het hedendaagse Afrika een hoofdrol speelt, krijgen inmiddels wereldwijde aandacht. Hij won al talloze prijzen en is recentelijk genomineerd voor de prestigieuze Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. Aankomend voorjaar toont het Fotomuseum Den Haag een uitgebreid overzicht van werk dat Hugo maakte tussen 2003 en 2011.

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El Salahi’s body of work is not bound within one style nor is it constrained by the early parameters of Sudanese aesthetic practices. His paintings combine a critical understanding of western art principles with references to Sudanese and Islamic art forms; his trademark linear style remains a preeminent unifying device expressing the intuitive merging of Islamic spirituality with critical social consciousness.

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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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Drawings as understood and defined by a select group of important contemporary artists. The discipline has expanded and evolved over the past two decades and currently includes several creative forms of expression that were previously not defined as drawing. The exhibition’s name, 'Prism', evokes a tool that enables a variety of approaches, akin to how a glass prism disperses light into a multicoloured spectrum. Participating in the exhibition are African artists Ghada Amer (Egypt), Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivory Coast), William Kentridge and Robin Rhode (both South Africa).

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In Scripts & Signs is het werk van Owusu-Ankomah , Victor Ekpuk (en Arjan Janssen en Eva Spierenburg) te zien. Teksten en tekens vormen de verbindende schakel, Owusu Ankomah, een prominente vertegenwoordiger van hedendaagse Afrikaanse kunstenaars baseert zich op Adinkra symbolen van de Akan uit Ghana en Victor Ekpuk op de Afrikaanse Nsibidi taal. De opening is zaterdag 25 februari van 16 – 18 uur.

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De educatieve tentoonstelling De gierzwaluw: Ver weg en ook dichtbij is op 9 maart geopend door burgemeester Bernt Schneiders, samen met woningbouw-directeur Victor Verhoeven en de kinderen van basisschool de Cirkel en de VMBO opleiding Sterrencollege.  De tentoonstelling  is onderdeel van het 20jarig bestaan van de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare. De tentoonstelling is gemaakt voor de hoogste klassen van de basisschool.

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Internationally acclaimed painter and poet Breyten Breytenbach exhibits his latest paintings. Works in acrilyc paint on paper and canvas will be on view.

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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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The second half of Guy Tillim's Second Nature was taken in São Paulo in 2011. In many respects, these images of the contested urban terrain of a megalopolis appear to be the antithesis of the Polynesian landscapes of the first half of the series, with their reverence for nature and awareness of the elements of water, wind and light. Yet, on closer looking, it becomes clear that Tillim is seeing and perceiving the landscape of these two strongly contrasting places in the same way. In all these images he does not offer the conventional point of focus or easily identifiable subject that is the standard premise for photography; instead, he gives equal treatment to the many elements that comprise an image.

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By applying imagery as short-hand for both her own art making process or specific (cultural) signs and figurations, Gerda Scheepers explores the medium of painting. Content and formal elements of painting are remixed through cut, copy and paste with the results actively pursuing ambiguity. The sculptures and paintings operate like devices for containment that, ultimately and crucially, fail to contain. Scheepers often works within series or groupings of work, creating environments for (often repetitive) motifs and gestures. In this selection of work the shape of a t-shirt is at the same time motif in a picture and picture surface for another layer of signifiers.

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A probe of imagined views of the ordinary, which are collected from the multicultural reservoir of global visual media. The collected works are after reflections or after thoughts brought together under the ethos of the “clusterfuck aesthetic”. Intuitively playing with the moment of thought that happens when an idea that was once thought a great idea is in fact in time and realization a rather average even boring idea, but being happy with that fact. The joy of taking average and mixing it with more average and getting averagely good in the end.

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The story in history lies not necessarily in the what but in the ways of its telling. With the exhibition, Imperfect Librarian, a group of artistic researchers with the ARC: the visual university and its columbarium focus, University of Cape Town, present a new body of works in progress, developed over the last year. Confronted by the impossibility of faithfully reproducing, arranging and freeze-framing certain facts as they appear, the group enter into “the library” a set of unorthodox practices and materials which challenge the notion of archival practice.

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Iziko Museums in collaboration with the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, proudly presents Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride): A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell. An event marking her 100th birthday on 15 March 2012 will launch the exhibition which opens to the public the following day. A selection of over 150 of her highly decorative and accurate visual recordings of southern African costume a.o. will be exhibited.

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Uses South Africa’s past to examine both the complex nature of history and of South African identity. Using a variety of media, including lithographs, sculpture and found objects, Chad Rossouw shows moments of melancholy, bathos and bombastic failure against the relentless march of historical time. Two main ideas connect the various artworks in A History of Failure. The first is that historical progress is merely an illusion. The second proposes an inherent failing in projects, monuments or nations that are dependent on the illusion of history.

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Hajek is a painter immersed in a world of surreal fantasy and melancholic beauty. Drawing from diverse references such as 60’s African studio photography, renaissance perspective and the Dutch still lifes of the 1600s his work is underpinned by the colour and texture of folkloric imagery.Strange Flowers, Hajek’s most recent body of work, is a hypnotic tangle of botanical forms and colour. Rendered in acrylic on wood panels, Hajek uses distressed and exquisitely fine mark-making to create a rich surface patina. Woven into the fabric of the work the image of the flower is used as a seductive yet contradictory metaphor for fertility, poison, growth and decay.

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