X-CAPE PROGRAMME
A) LANGA/GUGULETHU/KHAYELITSHA/STELLENBOSCH
B) FORESHORE/DE WATERKANT/CBD
C) WOODSTOCK/SALT RIVER/OBS/RONDEBOSCH
OA) OUTLYING AREAS
PO) PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS/ONLINE
SP) SCREENINGS/PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
B) FORESHORE/DE WATERKANT/CBD/GARDENS
FORESHORE/DE WATERKANT
B1) NATURAL HISTORY
Keith Joubert
22/3-5/4
Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 9am-1pm, or by appointment
Everard Read Gallery
3 Portswood Road, V&A Waterfront
021 418 4527
www.everard_read_capetown.co.za
Keith Joubert's extraordinary canvases reflect a lifetime spent examining Africa's magnificent natural history. Using symbols ingrained in our vestigial memories, Joubert asks us to engage with the beauty and drama that still exist around us, in the ever-burgeoning face of global warming and the destruction of nature.
B2) WINDOWS
Sasha Hartslief
26/4-10/5
Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 9am-1pm, or by appointment
Everard Read Gallery
3 Portswood Road, V&A Waterfront
021 418 4527
www.everard_read_capetown.co.za
Through painting, Sasha Hartslief observes and investigates the underbelly of Cape Town's urban life. People and places appear suspended in moments of introspection. Her broad brushstrokes, rich palette and obvious passion for oils yield a body of works that bring out the beauty in the darker side of our city.
B3) AFTERLIFE
Various Artists
22/3- 28/4
Mon-Fri 9m-5pm, Sat 10am-1pm
Michael Stevenson Gallery
Hill House, De Smidt Road, Greenpoint
021 421 2575
www.michaelstevenson.com
Curated by Sophie Perryer, Afterlife reflects on such phenomena as passage or transition from one state of being to another, communication with the spirits or ancestors, rebirth and reincarnation. The participating artists, many showing new works, include amongst others, Wim Botha, Moshekwa Langa, Samson Mudzunga, Claudette Schreuders, James Webb and French/Algerian artist Zineb Sedira.
B4) FIVE FACES OF MODERN SOUTH EAST ASIA (SPECIAL EXHIBITION)
Various artists
12 - 23/4
Opening 6:30pm on 12 April, then daily from 10am to 4pm
VEO Gallery
28 Jarvis Street, De Waterkant, Greenpoint
021 421 1568
www.veo.co.za
Featuring original and fresh work by five Balinese contemporary artists, Five Faces of Modern South East Asia explores the changes that have taken place in the region in the past 10-15 years. The exhibition also highlights the move towards more expressionistic and abstract modes of artistic representation among the new generation of Balinese artists.
B5) RELEASE
Carolyn Parton
24/3 - 2/5,
Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm. Sat by appointment
Hippocampus
4t floor, De Waterkant Centre, 9 Somerset Road, Greenpoint
021 421 0948
Artist and designer Carolyn Parton explores the three-dimensional sculptural possibilities of paint. The works on show consist solely of paint released from a surface support and suspended from carbon-fibre rods.
B6) SAARTS EMERGING: CAPE TOWN 2007
SAarts Emerging
27/3
Opening day 6pm
Workshops: 28/3, 29/3 10 - 12am
Vega Cape Town
Cnr De Smidt & Somerset Road, Green Point
021 425 7591
Upstart Joburg art website www.saartsemerging.org presents the work of a variety of successful early career artists working in range of media and contexts. Expect to see the likes of Asha Zero, Simon Gush, Bronwyn Lace, Colleen Alborough, Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Ismail Farouk, Nathaniel Stern, Rat Western and more. Workshops looking at methods of representing oneself as an artist online take place on 28 and 29 of March. www.saartsemerging.org
B7) WAX BOAT FLOATING HALF SUNK (LOST LOGBOOKS OF
)
Petra Keinhorst
Due to technical problems (having been run over by the motorboats in the canal) the wax boats will remain in the CTICC canal pools indefinitely.
Cape Town International Convention Centre, at the canal pools
Convention Square, 1 Lower Long Street
2-9/4
The Castle of Good Hope, at the castle moat
Cnr Buitenkant and Darling Street
Petra Keinhorst presents a temporary public installation that explores memory and perception. A wax boat floats half sunk in the canal pools of the Convention Square and the Castle Moat, its hull filled with scattered wax books, indicating one of many stories of failure or disappearance happening too often along the shores of African realities.
B8) GRASSGRASSGRASS
H.T.B.H
4-6/4
8am-6pm
Thibault Square and blog
Between Adderely, Riebeek, Hans Strydom & Long Street
www.multimediations.org/michelle
Grass is typically suburban and domestic: tamed, prescribed and controlled. Here it finds itself a new form, which invites interpretation and lends itself to a fresh reading. In a series of site specific urban interventions the greenery of suburbia confronts and meets the city with specific randomness aimed at provoking surprise, incredulity and delight! Visit www.multimediations.org/michelle for additional dates, times and documentation.
B9) I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE: AN IHAV BENEFIT CONCERT
International Association of Human Values et al
24 March 2007,
7pm
THE LOOP
2 Loop Street, Cape Town
073 766 6820
R120.00
This multimedia fundraising art happening celebrates ubuntu by bringing together artists from a diversity of different cultures and genres. Expect Indian sounds from vocalist Vikram Hazra, along with irie vibes, transkanda sounds, fusion dance and soulful songs by local artists. Funds raised will contribute to projects implemented by the International Association of Human Values. www.breathinglifeasart.blogspot.com
B10) THE LION AND THE JACKAL: A VISIONARY PERSPECTIVE,
Breathing life as art & The Loop
24/3 - 16/4
Opens 5pm
THE LOOP
2 Loop Street, Cape Town
073 766 6820
This group exhibition, featuring photographs taken by ordinary people, aims to explore the potential for a visionary perspective of society: "a living story, a thread of in-between-ness, of happenings together" that maps the movement of peace though Africa. Also on show are artwork created during an artist workshop focussed on the power of breath. www.breathinglifeasart.blogspot.com
B11) DOCUMENT 2
Ighude Theatre Productions
30/3 and 6/4
8pm
THE LOOP
2 Loop Street, Cape Town
073 766 6820
R40.00
Using a wide range of artistic and theatrical elements, Document 2 explores the multiplicity and complexity of Southern Africa society and culture. Created by youth-based Khayelitsha theatre initiative, Ighude Theatre Productions, it offers an uplifting example of how diversity can build a strong nation. www.breathinglifeasart.blogspot.com
B12) TREASURE IN A TEACUP
James Seigel
24/3-2/5
Mon-Fri: 8am-4pm
Freida's Café
15 Bree Street, Cape Town
021 421 2404
James Seigel explores the small details, subtle nuances and hidden beauty that make up contemporary reality. Through his travels he documents and presents fresh insights into the small treasures that we so often take for granted.
B13) SHARON PEERS
Sharon Peers
21/2-31/3 March 2007
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9:30am-1pm
3RD i Gallery
95 Waterkant Street, Foreshore
021 425 2266
Photographer Sharon Peers showcases her extraordinary take on the ordinary, in an exhibition of images that challenge perception.
B14) MODERN RUSSIAN PAINTERS
Various artists
5/4-26/4
Mon-Fri 9-5pm, Sat 9:30-1pm
3RD i Gallery
95 Waterkant Street, Foreshore
021 425 2266
This exhibition of modern Russian paintings by a selection of established artists presents a thought-provoking look at contemporary life in this post-communist country. The show runs alongside the Russian Film Festival.
B15) BRIDGING THE GAP
German Mahlase,
Vuysani Migijima, Charles Maleka
5/2 - 2/5
8am - 10pm
The Spearhead
42 Hans Strydom Ave, Foreshore
021 423 5309
This group exhibition brings together three South African artists - German Mahlase, Vuysani Migijima and Charles Maleka - who create their own visual language to communicate their experiences and sensations to the viewer. The work on show includes painting and pottery that ranges from the abstract to the representational. See www.capegallery.co.za/exhibition.htm.
CBD/GARDENS
B16) MAKING SPACE
Good Hope Art
Studios
24/3 6pm
26/3- 27/4, Mon-Sat: 10am - 4pm
Opening day at 6pm at Adam Tas Studio
Caste of Good Hope
Cnr Buitenkant and Darling Street, Cape Town
083 343 1551
A diverse group of visual artists - operating as the GoodHopeArt Studio express their personal mythology and interpret the concept of SPACE using various media including painting, drawing, print making, mixed media and installation works.
B17) SHADES
Various
4/3 - 28/3
Opening day 11am - 4pm, then Mon - Fri:10am - 6pm, Sat:10:30am - 3pm
The Bin Gallery
105 Harrington Street, East City
021 465 8314
www.thebin.co.za
From Ray Ban Wayfarers to mirror shades, oversized plastic kitsch to apartheid-era police sonbrille - "nothing captures a zeitgeist quite like sunglasses". The Bin taps into this with a museumological display of 70's and 80's sunglasses ranging in style, shape and look. All shades are for sale.
B18) THE LOVESTICK COLLECTIVE
The Lovestick
Collective
8/4 - 2/5
Opening day 11am - 4pm, then Mon - Fri: 10am - 6pm, Sat: 10:30am - 3pm
The Bin Gallery
105 Harrington Street, East City
021 465 8314
www.thebin.co.za
Combining the talents of Justin, Loveme and Motel 7, street art and design collective, The Lovestick Collective have developed a reputation as one of the Mother City's hottest new creative crews. Expect a fashion, pop-culture and art mash-up that blends wicked humour with tight skills and a street-savvy improvised flair.
B19) OASIS
Pieter Badenhorst
29/3 - 24/4
Open all hours
Paddy's Service Station
130 Buitenkant Street, Gardens, Cape Town
083 253 8416
The embassies of global oil giants, policed by a uniformed army, lit up like movie sets, open 24/7. South Africa's service stations have become oasis' for a middle class terrified by the nocturnal, urban landscape. Photographer Pieter Badenhorst captures this world in photographic installations shown at service stations throughout the City Bowl.
B20) WHO ARE THEY REALLY?
Various artists
4/4-19/4
Opening 6:30pm then Mon-Fri 7:30am - 4pm, (other times by appointment)
38 Special
38 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
021 462 1348
This wide-ranging group show sees Cape Town artists including Alessandra Desole, Janet Ranson, Kate Smith, Michael Goldberg, Selvyn November and Xolile Mtaktya come together to explore their influences and inspirations. Expect diverse process-driven, self-reflective works that range from the humorous to the heroic, presented in a variety of media including drawing, painting, photography and installation.
B21) VOYAGE ENSEMBLE II - A JOURNEY TOGETHER
Voyage ensemble,
curator Sylvie Groschatau-Philips
4/4 from 6pm, then Mon-Fri 10-4pm until 20/4l
Special film screening, Voyage by Night : 4/4, 12/4 and 18/4 6pm - 9:30pm
Scalabrini Centre
47 Commercial Street, Cape Town
021 465 6433
The Voyage exhibition reflects the movement of African people and their cultures. Featuring the individual work of professional artists from Congo, Burundi and Mozambique alongside South African artists, it aims to foster exchange and challenge xenophobia. As an expression of their objectives, the Voyage Ensemble artists engage creatively in a series of a 2 months workshops to present short animated films for the exhibition. See www.voyageensemble.blogspot.com.
B22) INJUNCTION
Myer Taub
4 April 2007
6-10pm
What if the World @ Hope Street
11 Hope Street, Cape Town
021 461 2573
www.whatiftheworld.com
Cultural activist and impresario Myer Taub combines live art and performance with interactive narratives, maps, hidden treasures and political dynamics in this once-off event held at What if the World and two other undisclosed sites. Titled Injunction, it aims to serve a firm warning to the city of Cape Town about its dubious maternal status.
B23) 21st CENTURY ANIMAL
The Resonance
Bazaar
Fri 30/3
10pm-11pm
EVOL, Hectic on Hope
69 Hope Street
083 562 2583
R40.00
Created by a free trade network of hybrid collaborators, this performance of "raw scenes from 21st Century Animal" fuse music, dance, theatre and digital cinema. Utilising an aesthetic that values fragments and unexpected juxtapositions it provoke manifestations of extra-ordinary realities, drawn from our "big time sensuality and ecological lore".
B24) ABSTRACT BY NATURE TWO
Jonathan Basckin
20/3-5/5
Mon-Fri 9am-1pm (other times by appointment)
Howzitchina Galleries
7 Upper Orange Street, Oranjezicht, Cape Town
083 461 7796
After successful exhibitions in London and Beijing, Cape Town pilot and photographer Jonathan Basckin presents a new body of his trademark graphic, abstract arial vistas that highlight the tensions and exchanges between culture and nature. The exhibition includes his Tankwa Schools Project, which adds an important on-the-ground human counterpoint to his work's abstract seductive force. www.jonathanbasckin.com
B25) LIVE AUDIO DRAMA CONCLAVE
NOMMO Radio
21 April
11am
Labia Theatre on Orange Street, Cape Town
68 Orange Street, Gardens
021 424 5927
R20, R10 each for 4 or more
Several dynamic Western Cape collectives present live audio drama, a provocative but entertaining live performance genre that combines narratives skills with sound effects, music, miming and voice acting, while inviting audience participation.
B26)
THE LIFE AND WORK OF PETROVIC PETAR
Jason Potgieter
& Sanjin Muftic
Opening night 31/3, then daily, except Sundays until 14/4
8pm
Intimate Theatre
Hiddingh Campus, 31-37 Orange Street, Cape Town
Bookings 079 324 7631
R30 students, R40 adults
The Life and Work of Petrovic Petar is a multimedia performance piece that takes audiences on a tour of Africa through the eyes of its protagonist, a European refugee in Africa. Questions of race, identity, history, geography, sexuality, pop culture and tradition all blend in this tragic-comic encounter.
B27) ART GLASS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA
Various Artists
24/3 - 31/5,
Tues-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-1pm
EDGE Glass Gallery
29 Vredenburg Lane, off Long Street, Cape Town
021 423 3370
Leading contemporary glass artists from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Swaziland explore light, colour, optics and form in a group show that demonstrates the continued vitality of this lesser-known medium.
B28) TALKING IMAGES IV - FOLLOW UP SERIES OF LIVE EXHIBITIONS
SA Centre for
Photography & Jenny Altschuler
26/3 - 2/5 (exhibition open)
26/3, 16/4, 30/4 (live exhibitions)
7:30pm
The Bio Café
32 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town
021 488 2000
R10.00
In these three live exhibitions, projections of the personal photographic portfolios of a selection of famous and upcoming photographers are presented to live audiences, who are invited to respond. Each event features a new exciting series and single images in a diversity of different photographic genres - from fine art to photojournalism.
B29) ERF 81
ERF 81 Cultural
Collective
28 March
From 6-9pm
Erf [81] Farm
Erf 81 Military Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
021 424 2610
A series of provocative site specific installations, interventions and performances that see the erf [81] Cultural Collective combine performance, sculpture, painting, drawing, installation and projection, with unimasa, potjies, animals and drinks to draw attention to and reinterpret now dormant sites of militarization and conflict in Cape Town's history. www.trekker.co.za
B30) HOME
Daya Heller
28/03- 02/05
6 - 9pm
Erf [81] Farm
Erf 81 Military Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
021 424 2610
Home presents a body of work that investigates the human body as a site for the meeting point of the physical and the divine. Based on cycles of life and death, journey, process and transformation, it juxtaposes inanimate figurative sculpture with the live bodies that occupy the same space.
B31) THE JOURNEY CONTINUES
Dathini Mzayiya
24/3-2/5
Mon-Fri: 12-4pm, Sat by appointment
Erf [81] Farm
Erf 81 Military Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
072 451 1950
Dathini Mzayiya skilfully blends graphic, gestural and painterly sensibilities in his expressive figure drawing. For this exhibition he makes visible and challenges the binaries that haunt society: right/ wrong, good/ bad, left/ right, black/ white
B32) THE WAR
Steve Bandoma
28 March
6-9pm
Erf [81] Farm
Erf 81 Military Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
076 866 8426
Steve Bandoma, a refugee and artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo draws on his personal experience in this expressive performance work, created as a reaction to the injustices of the world and the suffering of innocent lives.
B33) BLANK PAPER PROJECTS
All artists
22/3 - 11/4
Opening day 6pm, then Mon-Fri 12-5pm
Blank Projects
198 Buitengracht Street, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
083 256 1170
The blank page forms an appropriate starting place for this interactive installation at Blank Projects. Comprising only of an empty space with a neat stack of good paper, box of pencils, sharpener and prestick it serves as a friendly yet provocative invitation to visitors to participate in X-CAPE by making and displaying their own drawings. The result of the Blank Paper Project will be bound in a book.
B34) STEEK
LIZA GROBLER
& BAREND DE WET
13/4 - 2/5
Opening 13/4 at 6pm
Blank Projects
198 Buitengracht Street, Bo-Kaap
083 256 1170
Cult writer Chuck Palahniuk once said: "the fun part about crafts is they're
so easy to make while you watch TV" (Lullaby, 2002). Liza Grobler and Barend
De Wet seem to have reached a similar conclusion. In Steek they stitch imagery
culled from contemporary pop and media culture into cutting-edge embroideries
that unpick high/low art divisions.
B35) BOUNDARIES
Suzanne du
Preez
24/3 at 12am - 7/4
Buitengracht stone wall
Cnr Buitengracht Street and Pepper Street.
083 391 0444
Suzanne du Preez presents a site-specific installation that investigates social, cultural and personal boundaries, specifically within the fragmented social and urban fabric of Cape Town. Using second-hand jerseys that are deconstructed and then reconstructed, she weaves a solid knitted wall that is placed along the invisible boundary line between the Cape Town CBD and Bokaap.
B36) PLAYER OF COLOURS
Lawrence Lemaoana
29/3 - 18/4,
Mon-Thurs 9am-7pm, Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-1pm
Alliance Francais du Cap Gallery
155 Loop Street, Cape Town
021 423 5699
Lawrence Lemoana, the 2005 Absa L'Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award winner, presents paintings, cushions and sculptures which probe his complex identity as an artist, a black South African male and a rugby player. Combining fast-witted irony, camp aesthetics and crafty kitsch humour, these works effortlessly tackle masculine themes such as identity, sexuality and history. www.art.co.za/lawrencelemoana
B39) RIEMPIE VASMAAK
Manfred Zylla,
Roderick Saul & Garth Erasmus
28/2-1/4
Opening day 6pm, then Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-1pm
ErdmannContemporary
63 Shortmarket Street, cape Town
021 422 2762
www.erdmanncontemporary.co.za
Renowned South African artists Manfred Zylla, Garth Erasmus and Roderick Saul explore the Afrikaans term "riempie vasmaak" ("strap, fasten, tie") as a metaphor for an artistic process that celebrates both communal and individual freedom. The resulting group exhibition features mixed and multimedia agglomerations which offer an exhilarating reminder of the possibilities of coming together.
B40) LOOT
Elizabeth Gunter
2/4-28/4
Opening Day 6pm, then Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm, Sat: 10am-1pm
ErdmannContemporary
63 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town
021 422 2762
www.erdmanncontemporary.co.za
Artist and lecturer Elizabeth Gunter's finely rendered charcoal drawings combine ambiguous symbolic iconography and virtuoso technique. Loot sees a highly personal exploration of the signification of the animal in constructing symbolic identity.
B41) KWAKUHLEKISA
Cameron Platter
7/3 - 31/3
Mon-Fri 8:15am - 5:30pm, Sat 10am-1pm
Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art
89 Bree Street, Cape Town
021 422 1100
www.bell-roberts.com
Artist and animator Cameron Platter is fast developing a reputation as one of South Africa's most sought after young talents. In his new show he combines pages torn from pop culture's scrap book with urban iconography and Nollywood bling to create "irreverent, witty, and sharp" works that allegorise the traumas and slippages of post-colonial consumer culture.
B42) BIRTHRIGHT
Tamlin Blake
4/4 - 28/4
Mon-Fri 8:15am -5:30pm, Sat 10am-1pm
Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art
89 Bree Street, Cape Town
021 422 1100
www.bell-roberts.com
Tamlin Blake's poetic and political oeuvre is realised in diverse and often
marginalised media, including sewing, embroidery and beadwork. In Birthright
she contrasts disturbing imagery drawn from commercial farming and ritual practises
of slaughter with the seductive beauty of her materials to create deft explorations
into historical value systems and cultural identity.
B43) THE /ROUND ONE - WESTERN EUROPE
Jean Meeran
& Team Tarbaby
14/4-9/5
Opening day from 11am, Mon-Fri 8:15 -5:30pm, Sat 10-1pm
Visit www.bell-roberts.com for screening details and times
Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art
89 Bree Street, Cape Town
021 422 1100 / 021 424 5927
www.bell-roberts.com
The Brown Europe Pageant comprises stylised video profiles, with accompanying photographs and design prints,that examine identity in terms of the constant creolisation of culture. Featuring women of colour from across Europe it looks towards the "Age of the Flipside", a new future that transcends current black-white, coloniser-colonised binary divisions.
B44) THE VIRGINS ARE ALL TRIMMING THEIR WICKS
Dorothee Kreutzfeldt
7/3 - 28/3
Tues-Fri: 11am-6pm, Sat: 11am-3pm
Joćo Ferreira Gallery, Loop Street
70 Loop Street, Cape Town
021 423 5403
www.joaoferreiragallery.com
ICONS: visual art, wheelchair access
The exhibition is framed by a moment in time: the song 'When the man comes around' by Cash came to the artist's mind when flying between Kinshasa and Johannesburg, watching the news, between representations of apocalypse and paradise. The show if you like is a one month diary - or the attempt of an insomniac to memorise the best song lines and some of today's images.
B45) GROUP SHOW
Various Artists
24/3 - 2/5
Open by appointment
Joćo Ferreira Gallery
2nd Floor, 80 Hout Street, Cape Town
021 423 5403
www.joaoferreiragallery.com
The Joćo Ferreira Gallery has a reputation for presenting a diverse, commercially smart but conceptually strong and defiantly edgy artistic dossier. In Group Show they bring together works from recent exhibitions by artists including Bridget Baker, Alan Alborough, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Egon Tania, Eleonora Rossi, Mark Hipper, Tracey Lindner Gander, Tom Cullberg and Dave Southwood.
B46) HYPOCRITE'S LAMENT
Julia Rosa Clark
4/4 - 25/4
Tues-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-3pm
Joćo Ferreira Gallery
70 Loop Street, Cape Town
021 423 5403
www.joaoferreiragallery.com
In this room-sized installation, Clark romanticises and bemoans our millenial obsession with The End, nasty weather, happiness and Modernity. Using her usual mixture of found and reconstituted bits and pieces, the work acts as an evolving diagram, in part illustrating the artist's desire to understand the moment between denial and surrender. There will also be a number of email based text pieces leading up to the show.
B47) THERE'S A MAN GOING AROUND TAKING NAMES
Dorothee Kreutzfeldt
& Simon Gush
27 March Open: 6:30pm, Closes :28 March 6:30pm
Joćo Ferreira Gallery
70 Loop Street
021 423 5403
www.joaoferreiragallery.com
This 24hr installation is a collaboration between Dorothee Kreutzfeldt and
Simon Gush. It includes a video projection of Gush's 'Ranger Circle' - 'Game
parks like the Kruger National Park function as much to keep people out as animals
in. Apart from the ranger's roles to stop wild-life poaching
and hunting, they are also faced with the influx of illegal immigrants who cross
the borders between SA and Mozambique.
B48) SIZE MATTERS
Various
6-31/3
Tues - Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat: 10am-2pm
34Long
34 Long Street
021 426 4594
www.34long.com
Working from the premise that "size does matter", 34 Long brings together the largest and the smallest works by artists in their stable. From tiny works with big impact to intimate large works, the exhibition reacts against the disappearance of the discourse of "size" in an electronic age where the screen reduces everything to equal dimensions.
B49) MARCH
Cobus van Bosch
6-31/3
Tues - Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm
34Long
34 Long Street
021 426 4594
www.34long.com
Cobus van Bosch explores/exploits the visuality of public performance in a thoughtful series of paintings - from cavalcading "klopse" troops, to protest marches and striking workers - to construct various Southern African moments. Using suppressed, grainy brush strokes and uneasily cropped compositions he captures the chaotic borderland where identity is lost to the energy of the abstract group.
B50) POTART
Various
3/4 - 5/5
Tues - Fri: 9am-5pm, Sat: 10am-2pm
34Long
34 Long Street (upstairs)
021 426 4594
www.34long.com
The starkly elegant shapes, beautiful surfaces and high esteem in which clay pots are held in Zulu culture have, with justification, attracted the attention of collectors world-wide. This exhibition includes only pots that were originally used in domestic contexts. Among them are revered ceremonial vessels and exciting contemporary examples.
B51) PAINTINGS BY GRANT OXCHE
Grant Oxche
1/3-15/5
Mon-Fri: 9am-6pm, Sat: 9am-2:30pm
African Portrait Art Gallery
59C Long Street, Cnr Long and Hout Streets
021 426 1886
Artist Grant Oxche reinterprets influences from artists such as Vermeer, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Turner, van Gogh and Monet into distinctly African portraits that draw on his own life experiences to express the underlying sense of hurt and sorrow caused by apartheid.
B52) ELEMENTS OF TEXTURE
Gavin Rain,
Richard Scott, Russel Travis, Varenka Paschke
24/3 - 28/4,
Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-2
Worldart
54 Church Street, Cape Town
021 423 3075
www.worldart.co.za
A group show featuring artists that combine familiar and innovative painting methods. Through the use of sculptured layers, different fabric, impasto paste, texture and pixilated patterns they create a reality that both reflects contemporary society and provokes the viewer to see it afresh.
B53) FEVER-SLEEP
Kurt Campbell
30/4 - 2/5
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm
Worldart
54 Church Street, Cape Town
021 423 3075
www.worldart.co.za
Combining visionary, conceptual and craft approaches, Kurt Campbell creates sculptures and prints that explore the uneasy relationship between coloniser and colonised. In Fever-Sleep he inserts "colonial materials" like bullets, nails and coins into traditional African headrests to create bristling, visceral works that disrupt these objects traditional use by linking the dreamer to the ancestral dream world.
B54) FROM HERE TO THERE
Various artists
26/3-13/4,
Mon-Fri 10am - 5pm
AVA
35 Church Street, Cape Town
021 424 7436
www.ava.co.za
Curators Storm Janse van Rensburg and Nontobeko Ntombela bring together a selection of exciting young KwaZulu Natal artists to explore the contextual shifts that "representative exhibitions" provoke. Works included range from subtle subversions of KZN's rich craft traditions (Clive Sithole), to socially provocative video interventions (Doung Anwar Jahangeer) and deeply personal prints (Gabisile Nkosi).
B55) CIPHER + CYNOPOLIS
Chris Webster + Gretchen van der Byl
16/4 - 4/5
Mon-Fri 10am - 5pm
AVA
35 Church Street, Cape Town
021 424 7436
www.ava.co.za
UK-based photographer Chris Webster continues his ongoing exploration into the unconscious through darkly mysterious, fragmented photographic assemblages in Cipher. While painter Gretchen van der Byl combines technical precision with an uncanny poetic insight in 'Cynopolis' The Black Dog Serious.
B56) REALITY BYTES
Dale Yudelman
24/3-2/5
Mon-Sat 6pm-4am
Jo'burg Bar Gallery
218 Long Street, Cape Town
021 422 0142
Imbued with story-telling innuendo, satirical humour and social commentary, these images by acclaimed photographer Dale Yudelman embrace fictive "truths" aimed at provoking the assumptive mind. Fable and fact blend in edgy yet unpretentious works that tap into the chop-shop contradictions of South African culture to create new realities that dwell in the eye of the beholder.
B57) ALTFILM & OTHER SCREENINGS (see Performances
& Screenings for detailed programme)
ALTFILM, Citibird
Creative Arts & More
Every Sunday
7-late
Zula Bar
196 Long Street, Cape Town
021 424 2442
The ALTFILM platform screens films made by a cross section of creative South Africans today. Including work by film directors, visual artists and animators, it focuses on material that powerfully incorporates and describes the inevitable evolution of the medium. Visit http://altfilm.blogspot.com for details. A selection of additional short films and performances by Citibird Creative Arts and others are presented alongside the ALTFILM screenings.
