Archive: Issue No. 40, December 2000

Technikon Witwatersrand has gone all out to promote the work of their students at a series of exhibitions at several galleries recently, and now here's another. Graphic design students present a selection of drawings, all of which are for sale - just in time for you-know-what.

November 29 - December 11

December 8, 2000 marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of ex-Beatle, visual artist-by-association (or was that Yoko?) and thinking man's hippie, John Lennon. To commemorate his untimely death, an exhibition of 150 artworks by Lennon, including originals and never-before-exhibited material will be shown in the banking mall of Sandton City. The show includes the Real Love Suites - Drawings for Sean, available to purchase.

December 8 - 16

Acclaimed socio-documentary photographer Paul Weinberg, who has recently published a book called Once We Were Hunters, shows a body of work focusing on various spiritual practices around Durban and the Kwa-Zulu Natal Province. Called 'The Moving Spirit - a journey with religions and faiths', Weinberg has spent a significant amount of time with spiritual leaders and devotees, who have taken him through the intricacies of their respective faiths. Subjects range from Hindus, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Parsis, paganists, new age practitioners, Shembe, Zionists and others. The rich black and white images are compelling and dramatic. While Weinberg has recorded, he has also invested himself in the fabric of the material and used his rich sources to create images of intelligence and perception, and social importance.

November 18 - January 24, 2001

Greenside-based interior design shop Inspace has graced its premises with functional art for some time. Here you can pick up Brett Murray and Conrad Botes wall-lamps, and Ilse Pahl mosaics, amongst other things. Now they have decided to host temporary exhibitions too, kicking off with Joanne Bloch's 'Acupuncture', an exhibition of mixed media works made up of many small individual units. The shop's desirable objets may also solve some serious Christmas shopping dilemmas.

December 1 - January 6, 2001

Tshwaranang, Freedom of Expression Institute and the Commission on Gender Equality present this exhibition in conjunction with a multi-disciplinary festival of workshops, film, drama, music and dance. The events take place at The Loft in Bertrams and the exhibition is only on view during December at the times stated below.

Tuesday and Wednesday December 5 and 6: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. (Film festival and discussion)
Saturday December 9: no times given. (Workshop: Media and Violence)
Sunday December 10: 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. (Workshop: Gender, Men and Human Rights)

November 25 - December 10

The Michaelis Art Library will be hosting an exhibition of drawings, paintings, ceramics and sculpture from Fuba Art School and library users who are educating themselves through books. Entrance is free and open to all. Michaelis Art Library has a comprehensive collection of books on art, architecture, design, fashion and crafts available for public use.

Safe underground parking available cnr Simmonds and President Streets. For more information contact Renee Van der Riet or William Stewart at the Library.

November 15, 2000 - February 15, 2001

The Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce their end of year exhibition 'That was the Millennium that was'. The exhibition will run from Saturday December 2, 2000 until noon on Saturday December 23, 2000 and will feature highlights from the year's shows, with a variety of new and older works form artists such as Norman Catherine, Lisa Brice, Robert Hodgins, Durant Sihali, Keith Dietrich, William Kentridge, Frances Goodman, Hentie van der Merwe, Moshekwa Langa and Clive van den Berg among others. This is the perfect opportunity for some fabulous Christmas shopping for gifts that will please forever.

December 2, 2000 - December 23, 2000

Seventy South African artists have once again been asked to create a work for the Gallery's annual fund-raising event show, this time given plain white T-shirts as a starting point. Sponsored by the MTN Art Institute, the result is a fantastic variety of different works, ranging from paintings to lithographs and installation to sculpture. Artists include Mandla Mabila, Robin Rhode, Rookeya Gardee, Amos Letsoalo, Brad Hammond, Diane Victor, Marcus Neustetter, Merryn Singer, Paul Emmanuel, Richard Penn, Usha Seejarim, Vincent Baloyi and Wim Botha.

November 14 - January 7, 2001