"Transcience" a solo exhibition by Ruhan Janse van Vuuren, 1 September 2012 to 22 September 2012
The second exhibition of the 2011/2012 Artspace Mentorship Programme is a body of sculptural works by mentee Ruhan Janse van Vuuren titled Transience. Janse van Vuuren has been working on this exhibition, under the guidance of his mentor Marco Cianfanelli for over 12 months and has taken his practice in an exciting new direction.
Described as a self-referential body of work that debates ways that human beings make meaning of the world, Janse van Vuuren says his work is open to interpretations that may differ based on its location.
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Reality by Pat Sithole, 8 August 2012 - 29 August 2012.
The first exhibition of the 2011/2012 Artspace Mentorship Programme is a body of vibrant pastel works on paper and canvas. Titled Reality, this exhibition is the product of a year-long mentorship process where Pat Sithole pushed the boundaries of his own practice under the guidance of artist Francki Burger.
Sithole's work sees a marriage of often confrontational portraits and mundane objects.
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Uwe Pfaff is Cutting Edges at Artspace
Visual artist Uwe Pfaff lets us play inside his mind during the journey of creating his latest, surrealist inspired body of works on show at Artspace Gallery, Johannesburg from the 14 July 2012 11h00.
Artist Uwe Pfaff is back at Artspace with a new body of multi-layered work, entitled Cutting Edges 2012. The Cape Town artists last showed with the gallery in 2007. This body of work explores surfaces created using copper, brass and nickel-plating.
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Flotsam and Jetsam - The bricolage of an artist's mind.
John Murray presents his latest solo show titled Flotsam and Jetsam
which opens at Artspace gallery on the 06th of June 2012.
John Murray's newest body of work titled Flotsam and Jetsam. The show is a series of paintings and drawings. The paintings on show are a combination of abstracts, portraits and still lives, while the charcoal and ink drawings are montages of images, making a whole from disparate parts.
The title, Flotsam and Jetsam refers to the maritime name for a mixture of goods or cargo of a ship that are either deliberately thrown overboard or lost due to ship wreckage. As a metaphor it is used in colloquial speech, it can also mean "bits and pieces" or "odds and ends".
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Richard Smith introduces us to the world of caricatures and crime fighters
Artist Richard Smith will be sharing his humorous artistry in a new body of work titled
karikə CH ər; CH oŏr at the Artspace Gallery on the 5th of May 2012.
Explaining his current work Smith says, "In this exhibition there are caricatures, figures of fun, figures of fantasy and a little social comment. A caricature is by tradition, a depiction of someone who is well known or famous... In the case of these drawings the caricatures arrive after the fact, and therefore are of nobody in particular. It is up to the viewer to decide who they are. They are not premeditated but purely serendipitous".
Created since his last solo show at Artspace Gallery in 2010, Smith returns to present these caricatures in large portrait format, multi panel drawings and oil painting panels. Smith is known for his arresting large scale portraits; he often overlays the face of the sitter with graphic images, objects, multiple linear grids and other surface elements.
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Alison McKay's 365 South Africa opens at Artspace on 11 April 2012
365 South Africa by Alison McKay
Artspace Gallery presents Alison McKay's first solo exhibition, 365 South Africa. The exhibition opens on 11 April 2012 18h00. McKay's work largely draws inspiration from the opinions and actions of the ordinary person in the streets of South Africa - their energy and constant need to survive.
Explaining 365 South Africa McKay says, "We see, we do, we say, every day. We are all doing it, just with varying degrees of commitment and via diverse means -but do we remember or are they just repetitive actions or words, often offered subconsciously?
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Out of the Village by Wayne Vivier opens at Artspace JHB on 07 March 2012
Out of the Village by Wayne Vivier
Artspace presents Wayne Vivier's second solo exhibition titled Out of the Village on 07 March 2012. In this exhibition, Vivier uses painting and film as his medium to create the works.
Out of the Village is a celebration of a smaller and less modernised form of social grouping: the village. The paintings attempt to convey the sublimity of being connected to nature, one's community and God. However, subliminally embedded into the creative process is layer upon layer of reference with no real source. In this way the works become self-referential and cyclical.
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Jaco van den Heever's Of dreams and nightmares at Artspace on 1 February 2012
Jaco van den Heever, Of Dreams and Nightmares
Artist Jaco van den Heever's latest solo exhibition will open at Artspace on 1 February 2012. Titled Of dreams and nightmares, this new body of works is the artist's third solo exhibition. Van den Heever is known for his visually compelling and highly nuanced drawings of Johannesburg urban landscapes and structures which explore the complicated relation that Johannesburg has to its own history and civil geography.
"My eyes are shut. I imagine a past landscape, a primordial veld, dotted with prospectors all staking their claims. Aspirant men with big dreams all eager to uncover the riches beneath the Highveld soil. The quest for material wealth has forced this once pristine landscape into unrecognisable terrain. The industrial machine has relentlessly carved and shaped the land into "Johannesburg", a mining town, a city, a metropolis", says van den Heever.
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