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View 360° of Johannesburg at Artspace, 03 December 2011
View 360° of Johannesburg at Artspace
Every year Artspace gallery presents a dynamic group exhibition showcasing the work of a wide range of creative and talented visual artists and designers.
This year, the exhibition will be a little closer to home. Artspace's latest exhibition is a reminder to those of us who have been run off our feet after another busy year in a city that never stops, that "there's no burger like (well rounded) a Joburger"!
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MJ Lourens presents a new body of work entitled AGO/GELEDE at Artspace, 09 November 2011
AGO / GELEDE by MJ Lourens opens at Art Space
Artspace presents MJ Lourens' latest body of work, AGO/GELEDE on 09 November 2011 at 18h00. This is Lourens' first solo exhibition in Johannesburg, following successful exhibitions in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town. AGO/GELEDE is aimed at capturing the nostalgic quality of the landscape as an art form and explores how we see historically, but also how we anticipate its future.
The landscape of South Africa has been witness to a rich and diverse history and is constantly evolving. Our land is one that has had many conflicts and reconciliations over the past years with the memories of so many of its people projected upon this vast land.
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Surface by Lionel Smit opens 8 October at Artspace
The Many Faces of Lionel Smit
Artspace Gallery is proud to present Lionel Smit's first solo show with Artspace Johannesburg. This is his third solo exhibition nationally. Presenting an entirely new body of work, titled Surface, the exhibition opens on 08 October 2011 at 11h00. Smit is known for his large canvasses and unique sculptures.
The conceptual transcendence of Surface starts its development on the surface. As the pieces live in the studio, the evidence of the passage of time is recorded in the accumulation of colour and texture. When investigating the surface, one becomes confronted with this process. The pieces' ideology evolves through the various stages of creation in a curious game of push and pull between the figurative and the abstract. What hangs on the wall of the gallery is only the physical manifestation of that process.
Explaining Surface Smit says, "The complexities of the pieces start to unfold on the canvas. Everything plays off as events on the surface".
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Louis Olivier's second solo exhibition Artspace with a new body of work titled (Man)nerisms, 03 September 2011
(Man)nerisms by Louis Olivier at Artspace
Artist Louis Olivier is back at Artspace with a new body of work which has drawn from the explorations of his highly successful 2009 show, Pale Male: Sitting Standing Walking. Titled (Man)nerisms, Olivier creates his sculptures using the cast of his body to develop a more personal series of works that explore the place he occupies. (Man)nerisms opens at Artspace on the 03 September 2011. His work too will be on exhibit at the Joburg Art Fair which runs from 23 - 25 September at the Sandton Convention Centre.
In (Man)nerisms, as the title suggests, the work is concerned with issues around the questions of masculine identity in the modern world. While Olivier's first show, Pale Male: Sitting Standing Walking was an ironic reference to himself as a metaphor for men, (Man)nerisms is a continuation of this search through which Olivier wrestles with the larger issues of his personal existence. Pale Male: Sitting Standing Walking was a critically acclaimed exhibition and was a the result of Olivier's participation in the Artspace Mentorship Programme under the guidance of Wilma Cruise - an independent artist and writer. His work was showcased on the Joburg Art Fair in 2010 where it once again was received favourably.
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Dylan Graham presents a new body of work entitled Pillory at Artspace, 03 August 2011
Artspace presents Dylan Graham's third solo exhibition, Pillory on the 3 August 2011. Graham's new body of work demonstrates a mastery of his technique coupled with the maturing voice of the artist through a series of paintings of objects and scenes.
In Pillory, Graham has tried to paint brushstroke for brushstroke, confronting the canvas in the language of the painterly medium, using colour, surface, placing, light and dark, tactile presence in bringing out his figures and portraits. Graham can be regarded as a 'traditionalist', yet does not intend to appropriate or borrow from the past.
Throughout Graham's oevre the viewer is exposed to seemingly unrelated scenes and objects that are rendered in a style reminiscent of Renaissance chiaroscuro painters. However, according to Graham the conceptual link is in the title and the relationship of the work to the artist and gallery itself.
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Step up or Step down by Jaco Sieberhagen opens at Artspace 02 July 2011
Sculpture artist, Jaco Sieberhagen is back at Artspace to present a new body of work titled Step up or Step down on 02 July 2011. Sieberhagen presented a show at Artspace for the first time in 2009. As with his oevre, this body of work uses visual metaphors to comment on the human condition.
In Step up or Step down, Sieberhagen uses a flight of stairs as a metaphor for life and comments on priorities, stumbling blocks and realities of everyday life. "Being successful, climbing the corporate ladder, rise to number one on the rankings, reaching the summit, have a winning relationship with loved ones, customers and strangers; has all become the fashionable thing to do", explains Sieberhagen.
Step up or Step down has its origin in the concept that life is a flight of stairs that has to be ascended or descended. Each person finds himself somewhere on the stairs of life in the midst of divergent circumstances and these sculptures are an embodiment of this particular theme. The artist explores the diverse circumstances surrounding the stairs and how people, with or without assistance, climb or fail to climb these stairs.
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Ik Ben Een Afrikaner (I am an African)
Ik ben een Afrikaner (I am an African) opens at Artspace
A compelling exhibition that deals with the dichotomy of the historical baggage intrinsically tied to being Afrikaans, Ik ben een Afrikaner (I am an African) opens at Artspace on 01 June 2011 at 18h00.
Ik ben een Afrikaner (I am an African), is a group show by South African artists Francki Burger, Hannelie Coetzee, Johann du PlessisPauline Gutter, Clare Menck, John Murray Mea Ox, Henk Serfontein, Cobus van Bosch and Reney Warrington.
The first person recorded to have identified himself as an Afrikaner was Dutch settler Hendrik Biebouw, who, in March 1707, stated, Ik ben een Afrikander (meaning I am an African).
In 1996 many years after colonial occupation, then Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, started his now iconic speech on behalf of the ANC with the famous phrase, "I am an African" following ironically with the phrase "Not because I was born there, but because my heart beats with Africa."
These two moments stand in stark contrast and sum up the challenges faced by the modern day Afrikaner who is claiming his place in South Africa.
Ik ben een Afrikaner is an exhibition by accomplished contemporary South African artists opening at Artspace, 1 Chester Court, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, 18h00 on 01 June 2011.
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Rosemary is for Remembrance - Ophelia in the City
A Portrait of Ophelia- a new body of work - by Bronwen Vaughan-Evans
This exhibition is an outline for a "novel" that places Ophelia in Durban in the 1930's in the height of summer. Plants mutate from the excessive water and heat and in the sweltering city, Ophelia slowly loses her grip on reality. The techniques used in this series of works reference newspaper prints and historical documentation.
A Portrait of Ophelia consists of a series of paintings that juxtapose the internal spaces we occupy with the external spaces of the city. Vaughan-Evans has used these two realms as a means of exploring the existence of the individual within an urban space and ultimately the alienation that results from this dynamic.
""My work is created using a process of layering white gesso on top of black gesso to create a controlled surface in which the dark layer sits just beneath a thin, light skin and thereby alludes to a metaphorical weight beneath the surface of things", says Vaughan-Evans describing her work.
Entitled A Portrait of Ophelia- a new body of work the exhibition will open on 7 May at 11h00.
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My Selection
A personal collection of works of Teresa Lizamore
Teresa Lizamore is a well known name in art circles. She was curator of the Sasol Art Collection for 27 years and is currently curator of the Rand Merchant Bank Corporate Collection.
Lizamore has also been owner and curator of Artspace gallery for 10 years and to celebrate Artspace will be mounting an exhibition that provides a window into Lizamore's career in the visual arts.
"I have had the privilege of meeting and working with so many South African artists" says Lizamore. "The works on show represent just a few of the stories and exchanges that have made up my professional life".
Entitled My Selection the exhibition will open on the 2 April at 11h00.
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EXCUSES - a two-man show at Artspace
An exhibition by Ruhan Janse van Vuuren and Leon Fourie
Excuse me for not trying to explain myself.
Excuse me if I'm saying too much.
Excuse the use of images above words,
Excuse you for wording them for me.
Excuse me if I do not touch you in the way I intended to,
Excuse me if I do.
Excuse me for giving you a puzzle with no formula,
Excuse these faces if faces offend,
They're really only the models of models that we all share together.
Excuse these excuses that I have made.
Excuse me as I take my leave
Entitled Excuses, Artspace's upcoming exhibition put together two artists whose approaches to their work are distinctly individual yet weave the same strand of nostalgia in their audience,
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Richardt Strydom - A verbis ad verbera II - From words to blows II, opens at Artspace.
Richardt Strydom - A verbis ad verbera II - From words to blows II
Winner of the 2008 Sasol New Signatures competition, Richardt Strydom presents a visually compelling photographic exhibition entitled A verbis ad verbera II - From words to blows II at Artspace, 143 Jan Smuts Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg. The exhibition opens on the 02 February 2011 at 18h00.
This exhibition is the continuation of the A verbis ad verbera series that was first shown at the Aardklop National Arts Festival in Potchefstroom in 2010.
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