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

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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