A selection of exhibitions that opened this past weekend and those about to open this week.
David Goldblatt / Structures of Dominion & Democracy / 2014 at the Goodman Gallery.
Memorial to the Enslaved by Wilma Cruise and Gavin Young.
For over three decades Goldblatt has travelled South Africa photographing sites weighted with historical narrative: monuments, as well as private, religious and secular sites that reveal something about the people who built them.
“Beginning in 1999 – five years after the first democratic elections that brought the African National Congress to power – and continuing into the present, I have engaged in a similar photography of some of the structures that have emerged with our democracy and that I believe are expressive of values in this new, still nascent way of being in our society,” David Goldblatt.
By looking at transforming spaces, Structures of Dominion & Democracy offers us a way of understanding the transformation of a people.
The photographs in this, the Goodman Gallery exhibition of 2014, come mainly from the time of Democracy.
WHERE: Goodman Gallery, 176 Sir Lowry Rd, Woodstock 7925 Cape Town
WHEN: opens 1 November 2014
Little Creatures/Without Pedestals by Nicolene C. Swanepoel at the Irma Stern Museum
Award winning artist, Nicolene C. Swanepoel, will be showing new work at the UCT Irma Stern Gallery from 1 November 2014. Accompanying the sculptures will be photographs of her work by Daniela Zondagh. Nicolene’s work focusses on animals and human-animal interactions. She has exhibited in many group shows in Cape Town and has work in select Cape Town galleries. While her ceramic cattle heads are well known (they are currently displayed in the turret to the entrance of the Castle of Good Hope), this show will show more personal and intimate work. This is her first solo exhibition in Cape Town.
WHERE: Irma Stern Museum, Cecil Road, Rosebank 7700 Cape Town
Zulu-Zen from KZN a solo exhibition of ceramic work by Andrew Walford at The Cape Gallery.
“It is the nature of humanity to be nature self-aware, to recognise the beauty of nature and express it with our own unique voice.
But we cannot control nature, we can only guide it, and it is only by surrendering control to the greater power of the universe that our endeavours can find true beauty in form.” – Andrew Walford
Andrew Walford is arguably the leading exponent in South Africa of the Anglo-Oriental ceramic tradition. He received the gold award at the Mungyeong Chasabal Festival in Korea in 2013. Andrew has travelled to England, Sweden, Germany, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea where he exhibited, taught, viewed and practised art.
WHERE: The Cape Gallery, 60 Church Street Mall, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: 2 – 22 November 2014
WALKABOUT: Andrew will conduct a walkabout on Monday, 3rd November 2014 at 2:30 pm at The Cape Gallery
INFO: Call +27 21 423 5309 or email web@capegallery.co.za for more information
FABRICATE: A Retrospective Exhibition of Handspring Puppet Company
Handspring Puppet Company is a multiple award-winning puppetry and design leader in international theatre. FABRICATE at the AVA Gallery, is a survey of key productions that demonstrate the exhilarating and sweeping breadth of their work.
The exhibition includes work from a large selection of their theatrical productions including the runaway hit War Horse, the two path-finding theatrical collaborations with William Kentridge, Faustus in Africa and Woyzeck on the Highveld, Ouroboros, The Chimp Project and Tall Horse. These will be exhibited together with documentation of studio experiments, sketches, drawings, music and interviews, theatrical appearances, seminars and talks, film screenings and master-classes.
FABRICATE is a project of the World Design Capital Cape Town 2014 (WDC653), and generously funded by Rand Merchant Bank and the National Arts Festival.
WHERE: AVA GALLERY, 35 CHURCH STREET, CAPE TOWN
WHEN: Public opening: 4 November 2014. Closes: 22 January 2015
INFO: T +27 (0)21 424 7436 or +27 (0)722 588 310; E info@ava.co.za
