Group shows at various galleries in and around Cape Town are the focus of this week’s Sanlam Arts Round Up on Fine Music Radio.
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I would like to take you to several group shows that have caught my eye and you need to see. There’s also a walk about tomorrow Saturday 4th that’s certainly worth adding to your must-do list.
Kalk Bay Modern – Art on Paper XIII
Since its creation by gallery owner Cheryl Rumbak, Kalk Bay Modern’s annual ‘Art On Paper’ exhibition, with its medium-driven focus, has established itself as a showcase of unique and powerful works by some of South Africa’s most renowned and beloved artists.
Art On Paper XIII gallery runs until the 7th of June 2022 – so you need to hurry along.
Let’s Make It Real at The Cape Gallery is a significant overview of the work of black artists that speak the unedited truth of life in the townships and are testament to the successful intervention of the programs that took their innate talent to the next level. Many of the established artists whose works are on show were trained at CAP – the Community Art Project, The Foundation School of Arts, The Visual Art Group in Nyanga or Rorke’s Drift Art Centre in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. Some of these artists have also participated in the Thupelo workshops at Greatmore Studios. Early pieces in the collection on show date back to the 1990s.
- Gail is doing walk abouts tomorrow, Saturday 4th at 11 and 12 noon. Please phone +27 21 4235309 and book a space.
Let’s Make It Real is a very complimentary exhibition to When Rain Clouds Gather at Norval Foundation, with its focus on black South African Women Artists, 1940 – 2000 – a reflection upon the influential and often unacknowledged contributions of black women to South African art history in the twentieth century. The range of work is astounding, and comprehensively assembled in an in-depth exhibition by curators Portia Malatjie and Nontobeko Ntombela . We spoke about this important exhibition a few weeks ago and the podcast is available HERE..
The AVA Gallery has 4 exhibitions on offer through to 9 June 2022. The line-up of shows ranges from a solo exhibition by Katherine Bull, a curated group show, work selected from graduate shows at Michaelis School of Fine Art and Ruth Prowse School of Art, and a film. I am going to focus on the 2 group shows, but you will, no doubt, want to spend time with all that’s on offer – you have a visual treat in store.
- ‘Location’ Curated by Lesole Tautswala and Shakes Mbolekwana is in the Long Gallery. The guiding premise of the exhibition is memory as a site of study. How do we come to remember ourselves, and in that process of remembering, how do we ‘make’ ourselves? This notion of’ making of ourselves’ is central in this exhibition.
- ‘Greatest Hits’ is an annual AVA production and in the Mezzanine Gallery. This is the only exhibition on the calendar curated by the AVA gallery director, Mirjam Asmal. AVA’s This year, work was selected from graduate shows at Michaelis School of Fine Art and Ruth Prowse School of Art.
WHAT: Group shows
WHERE: See the 2022 Arts + Crafts Map
WHEN: see individual gallery information above
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