From the Mail & Guardian, here are this week’s hot ticket events in Cape Town.
CAPE TOWN
♦ Mawande ka Zenzile will do a walkabout to launch his new exhibition, Statecraft. “In this body of work I use the mediums of painting, sculpture, video and installation to explore themes about the state, morality, death, power, violence and politics. This exhibition pays homage to the men and women who built the pyramids and those who pioneered the fabric of the politics of our time,” he says. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition.See also blog.
WHEN April 17 to May 30. Walkabout: 18 April at 11:00. WHERE Stevenson Gallery, 160 Sir Lowry Rd Woodstock 7925, Cape Town. INFO Visit
FEATURED PHOTO: ‘Kiss My Ass’, is part of Mawande Ka Zenzile’s exhibition, ‘Statecraft’.
♦ The Original is Unfaithful to the Translation is an exhibition of new work by Dan Halter, the title of which is taken from the famous story by Jorge Luis Borges, On Exactitude of Science. Halter’s work has more often than not investigated the ideas of a homeland and the myths and, in his words, fabrications that there exist in this search for it. However, in his latest exhibition he begins to stretch this idea a little further, exploring just how the fabrication itself becomes the (false) source of understanding.
WHEN April 16 to May 30. WHERE Whatiftheworld Gallery, 1 Argyle Street, Woodstock 7925 Cape Town. INFO Visit
♦ French trumpeter Pierre Dutot will feature in Midweek Sessions in concert with organist and baroque specialist Erik Dippenaar. Dutot has recorded more than 80 CDs and had a long career as an orchestral musician with the Orchestre National de Lyon and a soloist across the globe. This concert will be Dutot’s only solo organ recital and will include works by Handel, Telemann, Widor, Dubois, Vivaldi and Gigout.
WHEN April 22. WHERE Methodist Church, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town 8001. INFO Tickets will be available at the door and cost R80 for pensioners, R50 for students and R100 for everyone else.
♦ The Big Issue invites you to an intimate dinner with Jani Allan who will be giving a sneak preview of her memoir, Jani Confidential. Allan will be in conversation with Cape Argus books editor Vivien Horler. See also blog
WHEN April 20 at 6.30pm for 7pm. WHERE 6 Spin Street, Cape Town 8001. INFO R350 a person at Webtickets
