Rose Korber’s SUMMER SHOW 2013-14 is now open with several important vintage and current works by artists who exhibit in a number of the most prestigious art galleries and museums around the world.
It is Korber’s personal overview of the current state of South African art and features paintings, mixed media works, original limited-edition prints, photography, sculpture, ceramics and contemporary Shangaan beadwork.
Rose Korber is a noted art dealer and curator who has been exhibiting works of prominent artists for more than 20 years. She continually includes new names, adding to the richness and diversity of the works on show. This exhibition features a nucleus of artists, who have appeared on her exhibitions since 1992.
A highlight this year, says Korber, will be a selection of some very special, museum-quality works by artists such as William Kentridge and the late Erik Laubscher. William Kentridge has been rated the world’s 8th greatest living artist in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. In addition to several of his recent works, there are two vintage, original prints: an iconic Iris, a large-scale, much sought-after etching with hand-colouring (1992) and Atlas Procession II (2000.), in which Kentridge’s figures circle the globe, reflecting vast social and political change.
There is also a powerful landscape by Erik Laubscher, Quarry (2003) – oil on canvas in bold yellows and oranges; and a 200 x 200 cm oil on canvas, by Kevin Atkinson, I Live in Cape Town, South Africa – one of a series of conceptual works with this title, produced in 1975. At the time, critic Joan Stock, described these minimal works as ‘pure painting’, which emphasise ‘space, tensions, luminosity and sensuous painterly surfaces’.
These are all rare collectors’ pieces, with decided investment potential.
SUMMER SHOW 2013-14 also features work by Sam Nhlengethwa, Robert Hodgins, Willie Bester, Robert Slingsby, Richard Smith, John Kramer, Anthony Lane, JP Meyer, Joachim Schonfeldt, Norman Catherine, Jan Neethling, Paul Blomkamp, Xolile Mtakatya, Deborah Bell, Claudette Schreuders, Georgia Lane, Diane Victor, Pamela Stretton, Penelope Stutterheime, Wendy Ansizka, Cynthia Villet and newcomers, Robyn Penn and Kristin Yang.
The photographers are Stephen Inggs, Dale Yudelman and Jurgen Schadeberg, now 82 and living in Europe, where his iconic photographs of Mandela and of the legendary jazz greats of Sophiatown in the 1950’s are in great demand.
Sculpture includes significant pieces by Francois van Reenen, Willie Bester and Jaco Sieberhagen: Amongst the leading ceramic artists exhibiting are Louise Gelderblom, Hennie Meyer, Ralph Johnson, Ann Marais, Laura du Toit, Wiebke von Bismarck, Patsy Groll, Kendal Warren, John Kasozu Matovu and Helen Vaughan.
Several exotic ’Mandela shirts’ by Jane Makhubele, doyenne of Shangaan beadworkers, will also be on display, as well as a number of museum-quality, beaded Shangaan dolls.
WHERE: Rose Korber Art, 48 Sedgemoor Road, Camps Bay, Cape Town 8005.
WHEN: until 31 January 2014
HOURS: Daily 10 am – 6 pm Including weekends and public holidays
CONTACT: T 021 4389152 or 083 2611173 or email roskorb@icon.co.za
