NEWS FLASH ! ART CLUB: JOIN THE INAUGURAL EVENT
*Please note the date has moved
Between Us Restaurant | Saturday, 18 OCTOBER 2025 | 13:00 for 13:30
Art Formes invites you to join us in celebrating the opening of two exhibitions opening on Thursday, 11th September. Imprint – a group exhibition around the imprint of clay with artists Belinda Blignaut, Okitosongo Kadima Junior, Johan Thom and Ludwe Mgolombane and Sanctity – Exploring spirituality & clay with photographer Paul Weinberg and ceramic artist Sbonelo Luthuli.
IMPRINT – TRACES OF CLAY AND MEMORY – Group Exhibition
Art Formes presents Imprint, a group exhibition featuring a quartet of artists dedicated to the remnant traces of clay — with each artist’s practice uniquely positioned in a relationship between imprint and earth. Art Formes explores clay through the perspective of memory. These concepts are explored with the cloth works, or mud letters, of interdisciplinary artist Belinda Blignaut, who uses a vast archive of earth and its residues to speak of embodied forms of survival and healing; the clay drawings and sculptures of artist Johan Thom, who investigates gestural movements and moments through the traces left behind by and in clay. Additionally, the exhibition presents sculptural ceramic works by artist Ludwe Mgolombane, who uses stoneware with integrated plant matter and metals to construct figural forms whose surfaces are marked through combustion and the artist’s tools; and the terracotta sculptures of Congolese ceramic artist Okitosongo Kadima Junior, whose emotive figurative groups tenderly touch on themes of migration, identity and memory.
“Clay bears the memory of the earth itself: the impressions of fossils, the spiral ammonites and the spines of extinct creatures. But beyond this great capacity to remember is the ability of clay to change, to lumber towards the future, yielding under force.” Caitlin MacDonald, Clay Formes
SANCTITY – SPIRITUALITY AND CLAY – Paul Weinberg & Sbonelo Luthuli
Spirituality is a primordial facet of the human condition – a dig towards some ancient imperative to make meaning from the world. Our exploration of spirituality ultimately leads to an exploration of the land, home to the remnants of life itself. In this exhibition, this interconnectedness finds form in the work of ceramic master, and is archived through the lens of photographer Paul Weinberg. [See lead photo and below]
Sbonelo Luthuli
“Paul Weinberg’s photographs are a reflection of our human desire for sanctuary. When the eye meets the stillness of a river estuary, or the isolation of a San rock painting, or the pantheon of deities decorating a Hindu temple, it is not “God” that comes to mind but the image of the believer, the faithful, the acolyte who comes to this place to seek the soothing balm of absolution.” Prof. Hlonipha Mokoena
ART CLUB – DESIGNED FOR THE CURIOUS – Between Us – Saturday, 20 September 2025 13:00 for 13:30
Art Formes is looking forward to the first edition of their new event series: The Art Formes Art Club, in collaboration with Between Us in Cape Town. “Designed for the curious, we invite collectors, curators, artists, writers, or anyone who enjoys engaging with art-bound topics in a thought-provoking way to join us for stimulating connections, thoughtful conversations and beautiful food.”
Several good reasons to get to Art Formes and ENJOY!
WHAT: IMPRINT – TRACES OF CLAY AND MEMORY and SANCTITY – SPIRITUALITY AND CLAY
WHERE: Art Formes, The Old Biscuit Mill, 375 Albert Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7915
WHEN: Opening 18:00 – 19:30 11 September 2025 | closes 06 November 2025
BOOKING: Art Club – Between Us E info@artformes.com
INFO: VISIT
