“A Line Beyond” walkabout with Olga Speakes, Curator and Friends Council Member, is the good news from the Friends of the SA National Gallery. The exhibition and walkabout is at the AVA Gallery.
Paul Klee is famously quoted as saying that ‘a drawing is simply a line going for a walk’. This exhibition explores, using Klee’s expression, on what kind of a walk, or perhaps a flight or even a transformative journey, contemporary artists take drawing or line, as a particular way of mark-making, today. Their engagement may involve any number of moves, surprising, precocious, subversive, and unbounded by drawing’s history but strengthened by its heritage.
This group exhibition aims to go beyond drawing and to trace, where the line, so intrinsic to drawing historically, is taking contemporary artists today. It highlights different media used by artists, extending the application of the line in unexpected and transgressive ways. Like in a line of poetry, we follow and we may be guided by its form, but the beauty and wisdom of a poem cannot be reduced to its structure, however intricate; the whole is so much more than its parts. Similarly, works of art included in this exhibition are not reducible to their underlying structures or media, but the selection is meant to invite the viewer to recognise the role that the line, taken for a walk and then allowed to veer off the beaten track, plays in opening up new possibilities in contemporary art practice.
WHEN: 11:00 Friday 21st January 2022
WHERE: AVA Gallery, 35 Church Street, Cape Town 8001
TICKETS: Members & Non-members: R50 Book and pay HERE
INFO: T (083) 480 9189 [Phillippa Duncan] | E friendssang15@gmail.com
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