Stevenson presents Anton Kannemeyer’s SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS – his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. FROM THE HEART is a group show curated at The Christopher Møller Art Gallery by South African art lover, Carol Hodes.
As South Africa moves into its 20th year of democracy, Kannemeyer continues to explode the idea of the ‘rainbow nation’ through the incisive satire with which he first eviscerated apartheid’s officials and bureaucrats. Exhibiting new works in his ongoing Alphabet of Democracy series, Kannemeyer observes that the criticisms are increasingly directed towards an inept government which is fixated on the past because it is ‘the only noble aspect of its existence left’ (The New Yorker, 16 December 2013).
The debates around the trauma and legacies of colonialism in Africa are another thread in Kannemeyer’s imagery, as in his book Pappa in Afrika (2010). He is currently working on a companion volume, Mamma in Afrika, and many of these new paintings and drawings will be included in the exhibition. These are often in the genre of extreme satire which can simplistically be described as ‘politically incorrect’, a term Kannemeyer regards as reductive. Transgression of our strong beliefs and the sacred stereotypes of race, sex and politics is unavoidable in order for satire to be both critical and playful about themes that often abound in contradictions that we choose not to see.
The exhibition will also see the launch of The Erotic Drawings of Anton Kannemeyer, a selection of ‘erotic’ works of recent years drawn from his journals, sketchbooks and the commercial work that he did for Loslyf (an Afrikaans version of Hustler, 1995-1997).
Kannemeyer exhibits concurrently with photographer Daniel Naudé.
WHEN: opening on Thursday 10 April, from 6 to 8pm. The gallery is open from Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and Saturday 10am to 1pm.
WHERE: STEVENSON CAPE TOWN, Buchanan Building, 160 Sir Lowry Road Woodstock 7925 South Africa
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WALK ABOUT: Kannemeyer will give a walkabout of his exhibition in support of the Friends of the National Gallery on Friday 11 April at 11am. Cost is R20 (members and non-members); all are welcome.
FROM THE HEART is a group show curated at The Christopher Møller Art Gallery by South African art lover, Carol Hodes.
Featured artists include: Hanneke Benade, David Brown, Ben Coutouvidis; Adriaan Diedericks, Dee Donaldson; Jan du Toit, Andries Gouws, Pauline Gutter, Sandra Hanekom, Jolante Hesse, Eugenie Marais, Diane Mclean, Mark Midgley; Andrew Salgado, Henk Serfontein; Lionel Smit, Cobus van Bosch.
Christopher Moller – From the Heart
WHEN: opens on Thursday the 10th of April and will run for six weeks ending on 22 May, 2014.
WHERE: The Christopher Møller Art Gallery, 7 Kloofnek Road, Gardens, Cape Town
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