Donderdag 26 Juli 2012

Rudzani Matshili, voor wie recent een crowdfundingaktie werd gestart, heeft al heel wat foto’s gemaakt. ‘Ze zijn allemaal goedgekeurd door Pulitzer Prize-winnaar Greg Marinovich' zegt initiatiefnemer van de aktie Egor Gorshkov. Een deel van de foto’s is nu te zien in de Amsterdamse fotogalerie Qlick Editions. Mensen die hebben gestort ontvangen een persoonlijk door de fotografe gesigneerde foto in beperkte oplage. De expositie in Qlick Editions wordt op 7 juni geopend.

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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

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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Lalla Essaydi's elegant, creative work belies it subversive, challenging nature. Approximately 30 works of diverse media are drawn from each of her photographic series, including the richly hued Silence of Thought and the more widely known Converging Territories and Les Femmes de Maroc. The exhibition also includes a selection of new works, as well as rarely exhibited paintings and installations.

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Goddelijk en Griezelig is een interculturele tentoonstelling over het oudste dierensymbool ter wereld: de slang. De tentoonstelling laat in de vorm van oude en moderne kunst uit de hele wereld zien dat de slang vanaf de prehistorie tot op de dag van vandaag in alle culturen een bijzondere betekenis heeft.

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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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Op deze gezamenlijk tentoonstelling van de Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur en het Museum Beelden aan Zee is de ontwikkeling te zien van de Zuid-Afrikaanse beeldhouwkunst in de afgelopen zestig jaar. Van de dagen van de Apartheid via de bereikte vrijheid in 1994 - de eerste verkiezingen voor alle rassen - tot de huidige periode van transformatie. De beelden reflecteren die politieke en maatschappelijke omwenteling.

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Op deze gezamenlijk tentoonstelling van de Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur en het Museum Beelden aan Zee is de ontwikkeling te zien van de Zuid-Afrikaanse beeldhouwkunst in de afgelopen zestig jaar. Van de dagen van de Apartheid via de bereikte vrijheid in 1994 - de eerste verkiezingen voor alle rassen - tot de huidige periode van transformatie. De beelden reflecteren die politieke en maatschappelijke omwenteling.

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We Face Forward, Art from West Africa Today is a city-wide exhibition of contemporary art from the region, and the first major collaboration between Manchester Art Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery and The Gallery of Costume at Platt Hall. It will feature painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, video and sound work from a wide range of internationally acclaimed artists,

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Unlimited Global Alchemy is led by artist Rachel Gadsden (UK) with the Bambanani artist-activist group from South Africa. Fuelled by the politics and myths surrounding chronic health conditions and in particular HIV / AIDS, fragility, resilience and survival against the odds are at the heart of this poignant collaboration.

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The theme for International Museum Day 2012 is Museums in a Changing World. New challenges, New inspirations. This more is a recognition that institutions are faced with interpreting, and existing in a field that is becoming increasingly fluid. Each may face a unique set of goals, interests and audiences. Nothing is less true for the Rwesero Arts Museum, which will participate for the first time in this particular international event. May18th she will launch two big and two smaller shows, which make together an international arts exhibition on a scale she never had on display until now.

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Naast de tentoonstelling van de Surinaamse kunstenaar George Struikelblok is in de galerie ook de tentoonstelling Out of Africa te zien met intrigerende houten beelden van Abou Sidibé uit Mali/Burkina Faso en kleurrijke sculpturen  van papier-maché, gemaakt door de internationaal bekende kunstenaar Mickaël Bethe-Selassie (Ethiopië / Frankrijk).

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Warm colors, impressions of Africa as we imagine it when we talk about Africa. Warm, colorful, exotic nature and people. Taste this atmosphere during the exhibition Out of Africa… . The grand opening will be performed by the Consul General of Angola, musically framed by Ngoma drums on the Bakongo rhythms.The exhibited paintings are made by the Angolan Elizabeth Fatima da Costa Bondo alias Mayamba.

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Humans generally have a twisted, almost irreverent, understanding of female genitalia. We tend to view it as a purely sensual and sexual part of the body, rather than embrace its reproductive nature. Women are often blighted by a heavily patriarchal definition of their own sexuality, which has been tainted with ideas of shame, dirtiness and secrecy, and which attempts to negate the vagina’s existence, rather than embracing its centrality to human life and its inherent beauty.

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Keramiek van Marit Kersten (NL) en Simon Masilo (ZA) en anderen. Op zondag 1 juli om 14 uur wordt de tentoonstelling geopend.

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Foto's van Mario Marino, Oostenrijk. De kunstenaar reisde voor de serie Faces of Africa naar het zuiden van Ethiopië, waar hij verschillende bevolkingsgroepen fotografeerde in hun oorspronkelijke habitat. Uitgerust met niet meer dan zijn camera en een opvouwbaar achtergrondscherm, struinde hij markten en pleinen af in het rivierdal van de Omo in het zuiden van Ethiopië om zeven verschillende stammen te fotograferen in hun dagelijkse voorkomens.

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For her first solo exhibition in the United States, South African artist Goodman combines works made in New York during her recent residency at the ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) with older pieces that embody her expansive art career. This exhibition reflects Goodman’s interest in wordplay and humor through text. 'Touched' has multiple meanings: to be physically modified, to be emotionally affected and being participants in the various artworks.

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An Overview of Thirty Years of Photographic Essays by Santu Mofokeng. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential African photographers living today. His work has been presented worldwide, yet has never been subject of thorough research. Together with the artist, curator Corinne Diserens delved deep into the artist’s archives and selected more than 200 images from the last thirty years.

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Bamako Encounters is een tentoonstelling die met 281 foto’s en 10 video’s een volledig pan-Afrikaanse selectie beslaat. Onder de noemer Voor een duurzame wereld laat de tentoonstelling de huidige toestand van het leefmilieu op het Afrikaanse continent zien. Met hun poëtische blik nodigen de kunstenaars de kijker uit om de wereld te herdenken.

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SANAA toont verschillende kunstdisciplines, tweedimensionaal en driedimensionaal, fotografie, video, tekeningen, installaties of combinaties daarvan. Deze zomer toont SANAA weer een prachtig overzicht van werk uit de exposities van het afgelopen jaar. Met o.a. Adriaan de Villiers, Myriam Mihindou, Michael Tsegaye, Victor Ekpuk.

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Richard Long and Willem Boshoff work in distinctly different visual languages, however their central context and inspiration is synonymous - nature and the nature of things. The exhibitions reveal how the artists uniquely engage with the natural and social world. In 1967 Long started his walk-works, initially repeating the organic, impermanent act of walking in a single line until a trail was made. Boshoff combines his fascination with words and language with an astute awareness of the natural world and socio-political discourses.

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Group exhibition exploring the relationship between painting and photography. The exhibition is intended to stimulate further debate around the two mediums’ status of representation and value. Spanning from painting that draws on photographic tropes such as blur, pixilation or hyperrealism, through to photographs that directly reference traditional painting subjects or task themselves with exploring the subconscious, SeeingEye offers moments of overlap.

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20 photographic portraits of traditional Yoruba chief priests and priestesses who are considered to be human representatives of the Yoruba Orisha. Directly translating to ‘owners of heads’, the Orisha are thought of as mediators between man and the supernatural. Adolphus Opara photographs his subjects within their individual contexts, surrounded by their religious regalia. By doing so he imbues them with a sense of dignity and offers an interesting counter to the West’s, often skewed, portrayals of African religion.

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In recent years a large amount material concerning South Africa’s Border War in Namibia/Angola has burst onto the cultural landscape. Furthering the resurgence of dialogue around this ‘silent war’, Not my War will endeavor to engage the complex personal and institutional discourse surrounding this conflict, as well as highlight the war’s continuing relevance and effect on South African society.

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Frank and sumptuous portraits of urbanised, engaged Afrikaners who present a challenge to preconceived ideas about Afrikaner identity and values. These ‘new’ Afrikaners negotiate their lives as a minority group in South Africa. Their connection to each other—by kin, marriage, friendship or shared beliefs, preferences and tastes—suggests a cohesion very different from the forced identity of the apartheid years. Van Wyk chose his subjects for their often extraordinary lives that demonstrate a multi-layered and richly varied Afrikaner identity.

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De veelzijdige Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar William Kentridge ontwikkelde de afgelopen decennia een multidisciplinaire werkwijze waarin film, animatie, tekenkunst, grafiek en theater samenkomen. Typerend voor zijn werk zijn de krachtige houtskool- en pasteltekeningen die hij tot bewegend beeld transformeert. Black Box/Chambre Noire is een mechanisch theater waarin gedurende 23 minuten zes mechanische figuren beurtelings optreden tegen een geprojecteerde achtergrond van geanimeerde houtskooltekeningen.

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Award-winning photographer Bieber explores the twilight that she experienced in the decade following the advent of democracy in South Africa. The show is a selection of work from 1993 to 2004, primarily revealing Bieber’s more rarely shown independent series, as well as some of her earlier work as a press photographer. In each case her idiosyncratic style traverses and ultimately defies categorisations such as photojournalism and visual art.

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Takes its cue from the age-old philosophical dilemma about cause, effect and the contingency of witnessing history in the making. Presenting a mixed group of artistic generations and geographies, the exhibition traces speculative routes outwards from the second Johannesburg Biennale in order to gauge its bearing on local and transnational contemporary art practice.

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A series of independent yet intersecting exhibitions will be brought together under one roof to form a complete piece that explores the nature of belief and the dynamics of communication. The complete exhibition, entitled MMXII, is a solo display by James Webb. A keynote work in the exhibition is Prayer, a multi-channel sound installation of prayers recorded from over 65 different faith groups in greater Johannesburg. Other works, including static and time-based media projects, will be shown alongside JAG’s collection.

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Stedenband Haarlem-Mutare en kunstenaarsverenging KZOD. Dit jaar bestaat de stedenband Haarlem-Mutare 20 jaar. Onze band wordt gesymboliseerd door de gierzwaluw. De gierzwaluw overwintert in Mutare en broedt in het voorjaar in Haarlem. In dit project stellen wij de bedreigingen van de gierzwaluw aan de orde en zien in deze vogel het symbool van vrijheid en vrede als ondersteuning van democratische bewegingen in Afrika en Zimbabwe. Kunstwerken geïnspireerd op nestkastjes en educatieve tentoonstelling.

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Solo exhibition by visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi. For Muholi, MO(U)RNING evokes death but also suggests the cycle of life as morning follows night. Life and death, love and hate are some of the antitheses that appear throughout her work. In April this year, Muholi's Cape Town apartment was burgled in what was apparently an attack directed at her visual activism. The lost material was an extensive archive of photographic work, videos and texts documenting hate crimes in South Africa and gender issues in Africa. Now Muholi presents elements of her documentation that were not lost, together with new work realised in recent months.

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An exhibition of mixed artwork on the great South African statesman who celebrates his 94th birthday on 18 July 2012, curated by Natalie Knight. Walkabout on 28 July

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Features the landscape photographic series Limbo and Cross Country. Limbo is a series of photographs showing trees that have died, but not yet fallen. All these trees were photographed in various suburbs of the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. Cross Country shows the illuminated crucifixes that have become a common sight in many parts of South Africa.

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These works reference South Africa’s existing traditions of low-tech advertising and develop these practices through ambiguous language and the site-specificity of their placement. A telephone number was included on each sign allowing for an incidental audience to respond to the text, creating a relational and interactive element to the artwork.

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Cruise's works do not dictate a message and do not ask a very specific question but seem to be observing from a distance. Their dark stares and  knowing glances create an atmosphere that both intrigues and unsettles the viewer – an atmosphere that moves one to consider what it is that the armless, sometimes featureless creature before them is observing. They appear both innocent and wise, both repellant and captivating.

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Geers returns to his signature use of Razormesh as an exploration of local legacy. “Razormesh and security fencing mark our suburban lives in South Africa, protecting us from hidden nameless enemies banging at our gates. We live in compounds imprisoned by our desire to be free and safe within a space etched out from the environment by razorblades and electric fences."

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Exhibition focusing on urbanisation and its effects on the disenfranchised. Cape Town mirrors many of the problems facing other African cities and cities in the developing world. How does this surplus humanity improvise survival in the city? The photographs included in this exhibition are an attempt to distill Lurie's experience of these fragments of life – of unfinished stories – on the precipice beyond the edge of Cape Town.

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Op verzoek van SEEtrust reisde fotograaf Martine Kolner de afgelopen jaren meerdere keren naar Zuid-Afrika. In de townships in Johannesburg fotografeerde zij de levensomstandigheden van de zwarte bevolking twintig jaar na de beëindiging van de apartheid. De expositie bestaat uit twaalf series waaronder Black in White, Headgear, In my Courtyard en Slash&Burn. De ruim honderd foto’s geven een impressie van de bewoners in een land waar na jarenlange strijd zwart en blank proberen elkaar de hand te reiken.

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