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OPPITAFEL X 2010 - An exhibition in two parts by Artspace Gallery

Artspace presents its regular year end showcase exhibition, OPPITAFEL. This is the tenth anniversary of Oppitafel which has seen a diverse collection of artists and designers exhibit under an array of curatorial themes.

This year's Oppitafel brief to the artists was simple: - THE TABLE....

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"Skin" - explores the human skin as layers of meaning

Skin a group exhibition by Danelle Janse Van Rensburg, Thelma Van Rensburg and Adele Oldfield, deals with the notion of skin in their works, representing their own personal interpretation of that which is often overlooked and taken for granted....

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Paperworks
by Judy Woodborne

Paperworks is an exhibition of etchings and engravings inspired by the Tarot and Alchemy by Judy Woodborne. It opens on the 27th October at Artspace, 1 Chester Court, Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood.

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ARTSPACE MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME (2 exhibitions)
By Goodness Nhlengethwa and Thabang Lehobye

We are pleased to announce the mentors and mentees for the 2010 Artspace Mentorship Programme. The mentors: Kim Berman, Associate Professor in Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg, and Gordon Froud who is a South African artist with extensive experience of exhibiting and curating shows both locally and internationally. Their mentees are Thabang Lehobye and Goodness Nhlengethwa respectively.

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Artspace Warehouse: 3 Hetty Avenue, Fairland, Parkwood, Rosebank:

Unnatural Selection
Solo exhibition by Henning Lüdeke

Dissociation caused by Virtual Spaces are explored through Henning's "Unnatural Selection" show.

Within the context of consumerism, Lüdeke tries to find ways of transposing online commercial media into tangible, tactile spaces.

Through an "Unnatural Selection" of images from virtual shoe stores, he collages these into organic forms that resemble butterflies. During the first stage of this evolutionary process, the digital prints remind us to re-integrate our online experiences with everyday life; we need to remain or become grounded again.

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Artspace Gallery: 1 Chester Court, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Rosebank:

Triangulate the Death Rate
by Murray Turpin

Triangulate the Death Rate" by Murray Turpin opens at Artspace Gallery on 10 August 2010

Artist Murray Turpin presents a new body of work entitled Triangulate the Death Rate, which is "a tale of death, love, politics, identity and geometry". This solo exhibition will open at Artspace gallery in Rosebank on 10 August 2010, and runs for only 7 days...

"My art is an intervention," says Turpin of his blitzkrieg exhibition. "It's a happening rather than a product"

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Artspace Gallery: 1 Chester Court, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Rosebank:

"O"
by Angela Yeung and Rob Mills

A print and jewellery exhibition by Angela Yeung and Rob Mills opens at Artspace Gallery on 21 August 2010 at 15:30.

Jewellery designer Angela Yeung teams up with fine art photographer Rob Mills, to present a new body of work entitled "O". The work integrates the two dimensional medium of photography with the sculptural aspect of jewellery design as well as prints and items of jewellery.

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Artspace Warehouse: 3 Hetty Avenue, Fairland, Parkwood, Rosebank:

Fine Line
- A solo exhibition by Estie Serfontein

Artist Estie Serfontein presents Fine Line, her Masters Exhibition. Serfontein is completing her Masters in Fine Art at the University of Pretoria.

Interested by the postmodern contemporary culture and the diversities thereof, the artist's interest lies in the identity of the postmodern individual and the formulation thereof. With reference to post-colonial identity and the undeniable presence of cultural fusion, the idea that our identities adapt to suit our surroundings is embraced...

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Dreamsweepers - a solo exhibition by Nomusa Makhubu

Dreamsweepers, a solo exhibition by Nomusa Makhubu, opens at Artspace Gallery in Rosebank, Johannesburg on 17 July 2010 at 11h00.

Through a body of photographic works, Dreamsweepers seeks to disentangle the symbolism that appears in dreams and the extent to which visualizing them on paper really captures them. Makhubu says, "Having worked mainly with portraiture, this body of work has been a new exploration into digital collage for me. It delves into the fiction and realism that makes up dreamscapes."

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Civilized Violence at Artspace
Shop 1, Chester Court, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood

Artist Jaco van den Heever presents a new body of work entitled Civilized Violence at Artspace gallery in Rosebank, Johannesburg. Opening on the 23 June 2010 at 18h00, this exhibition of drawings is both visually compelling and intellectually challenging.

In Civilized Violence van den Heever questions the ideological framework of our contemporary society through a series of large scale drawings, rendered with exquisite detail.

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Investigating conventions- NUDgE - a group exhibition

On Sunday 30th May 2010 at 4:30pm, Artspace Warehouse, 3 Hetty Ave Fairlands will launch with an exciting group exhibition titled 'NUDgE'. The show uses 'the nude' as a theme and consists of six young artists from Johannesburg and Pretoria who interpret this theme in a variety of media.

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Current Exhibition:

Comic Relief at Artspace Rosebank
Shop 1, Chester Court, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood

Foul! A group exhibition at Artspace Gallery opens on the 22 May. Featuring cartoon artists, satirists and visual artists, this exhibition is a tongue in cheek look at the state of the nation.

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Richard Smith shares a few of his favourite things

Artist Richard Smith is back at Artspace with a new body of work introducing a cast of real and imagined characters that have been occupying his head of late. Titled simply New Works, the exhibition gives vision to the world that the artist has been inhabiting his sojourn in Greece in 2002. Characters from this world have made their appearance in his solo show at Constitution Hill in 2005, and his last Johannesburg solo exhibition at Artspace in 2008.

Smith is known for his recent work of large scale portraiture overlaid with objects, ideas and interference.

In a recent interview with Sean O Toole, Smith describes his approach:

"When I do these big portraits, I ask my sitters to pose deadpan. I don't want any expression at all, no teeth. I do this huge drawing of this person looking straight at me. It is really powerful - it has a lot of presence."...

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The End of the World Explored
On the 31 March 2010, 2012 opens at Artspace gallery's Rosebank space. The exhibition is a group show featuring the work of Colleen Alborough, Ricky Burnett Shane De Lange, Bronwyn Lace, Ian Marley and Rat Western.

The 2012 phenomenon is a present-day cultural meme proposing that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur in the year 2012.

The forecast is based primarily on what is claimed to be the end-date of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which is presented as lasting 5,125 years and as terminating on December 21 or 23, 2012. Arguments supporting this dating are drawn from a mixture of amateur archaeoastronomy, alternative interpretations of mythology, numerological constructions, and alleged prophecies from extraterrestrial beings

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Last One Standing- a solo exhibition by Tanya Poole

On February 27th 2010 at 11h00 Brett Kebble Art Award winner Tanya Poole will open an exhibition of new work at Artspace gallery in Rosebank, Johannesburg.

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SEMINAR INVITATION - Professional practice for Visual Artists

Unisa Seminar

Johannesburg based Artspace Gallery and consultancy Art Source South Africa will be hosting a seminar on professional practice for visual artists on how to effectively manage and direct their careers.

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Lesley Anne Price and Diane McLean: A Question of Presence


The aesthetic of nostalgia at Artspace gallery - 3rd February 2010

Artspace's first exhibition for 2010, a Question of Presence, opens on the 3rd February at 18h00. A two man show by Lesley Anne Price and Diane Mclean,

These two artists, working in distinctly different media and styles present a common aesthetic- that of nostalgia. According to Canadian academic Linda Hutcheon, "Nostalgic distancing sanitizes as it selects, making the past feel complete, stable, coherent, safe from 'the unexpected and the untoward, from accident or betrayal' in other words, making it so very unlike the present. The aesthetics of nostalgia might, therefore, be less a matter of simple memory than of complex projection."

These works invite not an intellectual response from the viewer, but a more visceral reaction that at once summons associations from the viewers own experience.

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