Aspire Art Cape Town suggests that if you want to continue to collect art over the festive season then visit their Cape Town gallery to view the current exhibitions.
Message from Ruarc Peffers, MD
As the year comes to a close, I would like to take the opportunity to wish all of you a joyous and restful festive season and December holidays. I want to also use this opportunity to share some of the exciting highlights of what has been a busy and exciting year for us at Aspire Art Auctions.
The changes the art industry has experienced along with other industries over the past two years represents a new normal. We have adapted and changed to that new normal, and we have emerged on the other side stronger and ever more adaptable to the many changes that are yet to come. I attribute this to our continued innovation across our digital platforms, our ability to create enriching and high quality in-person experiences and, of course, the talent and resilience of our incredible teams in both Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Currently on view at Aspire Art Cape Town
Summer Salon plus Doreen Southwood – Suspension of Disbelief
On view in Cape Town until 30 January 2022 is a special installation of South African artist Doreen Southwood’s well-known sculpture Suspension of Disbelief.
Having worked in a wide variety of media ranging from two- to three-dimensional materials, Southwood’s artistic practice revolves around the interior landscape of the individual. Through the sensitive handling of the materials coupled with the sophisticated manner of expression to which her ideas translate, Southwood lures the viewer to engage intimately with her pieces.
Southwood’s autobiographical work permeate nostalgia and question gender stereotypes amongst other concerns. Each piece translates as a considered and meditative scrutiny of the female psyche. The title, Suspension of Disbelief (2014), is derived from a phrase coined by the Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and pertains to the need to forego that which is believed to be possible in reality and to believe, instead, that the impossible is plausible within a fictional context for the sake of enjoyment. In much the same manner, the gracious figure engaged here expresses a beautifully sleek outward appearance, deliberately obscuring a sense of inner turmoil. This kind of imagined presence is most eminent in Suspension of disbelief and similarly references associations of domesticity and femininity which are considered as tools able to conceal repressive situations reinforced by the artist’s tempered, unsaturated use of colour that blocks out the bronze structure of her pieces. Text credit: Adele Adendorff
The Doreen Southwood exhibition is part of the Summer Salon – an extensive and carefully selected range of modern & contemporary art to delight the eye!
WHAT: Summer Salon and DOREEN SOUTHWOOD Suspension of Disbelief Â
WHERE: Aspire Art Cape Town, 37A Somerset Road, De Waterkant, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: 15 December 2021 – 30 January 2022. Mon to Fri 10am – 5pm
INFO: T +27 21 418 0765 | E info@aspireart.net | VisitÂ
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