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DURBAN
26.09.01 'See Eazi' art fair at the NSA
19.09.01 'Black and White Copies' at the NSA
19.09.01 'Wings' - Children and artists with disabilities at the NSA
19.09.01 'Imisebenzi Yezandla' - NSA Training Art Programme Exhibition
19.09.01 Vusimuzi Mbatha and Zamokwakhe Gumede at the BAT Centre
21.08.01 'The Politics of Space' at the KwaMuhle Museum
PIETERMARITZBURG
12.09.01 Walter Oltmann, Standard Bank Young Artist 2001 at the Tatham
12.09.01 'Sky Lines' - Shan Jacobs at the Tatham
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'See Eazi' art fair at the NSA
On the last Sunday of every month the NSA Gallery, in conjunction with the Arts Café, takes over every possible inch of space (stoeps, driveways and pavements) between Davenport and Ferguson roads with quality artwork. A diverse range of Durban artists are given the opportunity to showcase their goods at a nominal fee - creating the only outdoor event of its kind in Durban.
This month's fair features a special guest exhibitor, with the African Art Centre contributing works from a variety of local artists represented by this prominent Durban institution. A selection of high quality paintings, drawings and printmaking will be on display.
Entertainment will be provided by Jimmy and the Crickets, renowned for their special brand of Dixie, and children's activities will be organised and overseen by Lisa and Melissa of SoulLite Centre. A variety of takeaway cuisine and titbits will also be available.
In addition take the opportunity to peruse the three new exhibitions on display in the NSA Gallery, with gallery staff on duty for discussions, questions and debate.
Sunday September 30, 9am - 3pm
NSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood
Tel: (031) 202 3686
Fax: (031) 202 3744
Email: iartnsa@mweb.co.za
Website: www.nsagallery.co.za
Hours: Tues - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 11am - 3pm
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Fiona Kirkwood
Untitled
2001
Black and white photocopy
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'Black and White Copies' at the NSA
'Black and White Copies' is a collaborative project initiated by Angolan born, Netherlands based artist Miguel Petchkovsky. As the title of the project suggests, it looks to interrogate notions around identity - race, authenticity, original and copy. Petchkovsky hired a black and white photocopy machine that was located at the Thekwini Business Development Centre during the International Conference Against Racism, and invited artists, students and members of the public to make a maximum of 10 free photocopies. In return, one copy had to be given as a contribution to this exhibition and a publication. The compilation promises to be an interesting mix of "copies" in which the varying interpretations of original, authentic and identity in the context of Durban, South Africa, in the moment that it hosted the International Conference Against Racism.
Opening: September 25 at 6pm
Closing: October 14
Park Gallery and Mezzanine, NSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood
Tel: (031) 202 3686
Fax: (031) 202 3744
Email: iartnsa@mweb.co.za
Website: www.nsagallery.co.za
Hours: Tues - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 11am - 3pm
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A work from 'Wings'
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'Wings' - An exhibition by children and artists with disabilities at the NSA
The NSA Gallery, in keeping with its aims of offering disadvantaged communities greater opportunities through the pursuit of the creative arts, will be hosting an exhibition with Very Special Arts (VSA). VSA is an organisation that enhances and promotes the creative power of people with disabilities, in all disciplines and genres.
'Wings' attempts to create awareness around the practice of people and artists with disabilities by showing the work in a mainstream environment. It attempts to dispel the negative imaging and stereotyping associated with people living with disability.
Working towards this show, students from Technikon Natal Fine Arts Department and volunteer art teachers held art workshops at the participating schools over a period of six weeks. The enthusiastic production by the children forms a core component of the show as participating artists have been drawn from schools and service organisations as well as the professional arena.
Opening: September 25 at 6pm with speaker Benny Palime and special opening performance
Closing: October 14
NSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood
Tel: (031) 202 3686
Fax: (031) 202 3744
Email: iartnsa@mweb.co.za
Website: www.nsagallery.co.za
Hours: Tues - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 11am - 3pm
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Chesterville cardboard furniture workshop
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'Imisebenzi Yezandla' - an NSA Training Art Programme Exhibition
The Training Art Programme (TAP) of the NSA is an active development and training department of the organisation, and the exhibition comprises work produced during the past year at Wylie House, Inanda Jewellery Design, Chesterville Tufted Wool Workshop, Chesterville Cardboard Furniture and King George V Children's Ward.
Somestablished KZN artists - Andrew Verster, Pascale Chandler and Aidan Walsh among them - have painted some of the stools and tables made at the Chesterville cardboard furniture workshop. All proceeds will be used to further the NSA TAP programme.
Opening: September 25 at 6pm
Closing: October 14
NSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood
Tel: (031) 202 3686
Fax: (031) 202 3744
Email: iartnsa@mweb.co.za
Website: www.nsagallery.co.za
Hours: Tues - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 11am - 3pm
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Vusimuzi Mbatha and Zamokwakhe Gumede at the BAT Centre
Vusimuzi Mbatha and Zamokwakhe Gumede, exhibiting at the Menzi Mchunu and Democratic galleries at the BAT, make an interesting contrast in sculptural concerns. Mbatha lives and works at Table Mountain, Mkhambathini, a rural area adjacent to Pietermaritburg. Dreaming of being a motor car designer, he started exhibiting and selling his model cars made out of scrap metal at the Tatham Art Gallery in 1995. He has since received commissions from corporate companies as well as the Russian Embassy. Last year he participated in the Perth International Arts Festival, Australia.
Gumede undertook a three-month carpentry course after meeting Sister Johanna at Marianhill Mission. The nun encouraged his interest in sculpture by reading biblical stories that he was required to illustrate in three-dimensional form. Mainly working with indigenous bottlebrush wood from the Drakensberg, he depicts his everyday life experiences.
BAT Centre, 45 Maritime Place, Small Craft Harbour
Tel: (031) 332 0451
Fax: (031) 332 2213
Email: info@batcentre.co.za
Website: www.batcentre.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat - Sun 9am - 4.30pm
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'The Politics of Space' at the KwaMuhle Museum
Subtitled 'Apartheid Architecture, Urban Design and Spatial Policy', this promises to be an interesting exhibition. Drawing on Michel Foucault's writings and elaborations on Bentham's Panopticon as a model for the organisation of the apartheid city, the exhibition will demonstrate that in South Africa the control of the black majority was based on the same principles as the Panopticon, a prison in which all prisoners can be watched from one point, a structure which is "the epitome of surveillance; a machine for controlling people, a laboratory of power". The exhibition will use text, documents, photographs and artefacts to show the way in which apartheid was implemented, taking Durban as its main point of reference. The exhibition will also examine resistance to apartheid and the way in which the oppressed claimed spaces within the city to demonstrate their opposition to racist and oppressive laws.
The guest speaker for the opening evening will be Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Ben Ngubane.
Opening: Tuesday August 28 at 6.30pm for 7pm
KwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordinance Road, Durban
For more information contact Lorelle Royeppen at loreller@crsu.durban.gov.za
Tel: (031) 311 2235 or 083 234 4598
Fax: (031) 311 2224
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Roy Lichtenstein
Gouache
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'Art Against Apartheid' at the Durban Art Gallery
Spanish artist Antonio Saura and French artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest devised the concept of an association of Artists of the World Against Apartheid in Paris in 1983 - the same year the United Democratic Front was formed in South Africa. International artists responded to the appeal by Saura and Pignon-Ernest to denounce apartheid's crime against culture and fight for a new non-racial democracy by producing a range of art that was both powerful and moving.
This international collection was first shown in Paris in November 1983 at the Rothschild Foundation. Since then it has been exhibited in over 40 cities worldwide. In 1995, a year after the first democratic elections in South Africa, the collection was presented to South Africa and it is now housed in Parliament.
The collection comprises works by 80 artists, as well as contributions by internationally acclaimed poets, writers and philosophers. Hazel Friedman comments: "The exhibition reads [most] effectively as an extraordinarily broad selection of works by representatives of popular international art movements of the late 1970s and 1980s ..." Artists include France's Christian Boltanski, showing conceptual photographs of children framed in glass; op art works by Venezuelans Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesus Raphael Soto; abstract expressionism by Robert Motherwell and Antonio Tapies and pop art by English artist Joe Tilson. A gouache by Roy Lichtenstein, lithographs by James Rosenquist, mixed media by Claes Oldenburg and a figurative oil by Richard Hamilton are but a small fraction of the big-name works on this exhibition.
The exhibition forms one of the fringe activities of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance that is being held in Durban in early September. It has been brought to the DAG by the South African government.
Opening: August 20
Closing: October 20
Durban Art Gallery, 2nd floor, City Hall, Smith Street
Tel: (031) 311 2262
Fax: (031) 311 2273
Website: www.durban.gov.za/museums/artgallery/index.htm
Hours: Mon - Sat 8.30am - 4pm, Sun 11am - 4pm
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Walter Oltmann
Larva Suit
2001
Aluminium and steel wire
230 x 160 x 40cm
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Walter Oltmann - Standard Bank Young Artist 2001 at the Tatham
Walter Oltmann is this year's Standard Bank Young Artist. Known for his almost obsessive wirework sculptures which employ traditional basket-making, thatching and weaving techniques, he transforms everyday items into glittering icons. Blowing up the scale of everything from a glove to a wooden spoon, he engages in a discourse that embraces postcoloniality through reference to the mundane srawn from a variety of cultures in South Africa. Recent work has also seen the manifestation of strange hybrid creations such as his Larva Suit - a cocoon-like, full-scale suit with sci-fi mutant connotations. A show not to be missed.
Opening: September 13 at 6pm
Closing: October 28
See Reviews and Artbio, Artthrob July 2001
Tatham Art Gallery, corner Longmarket St and Commercial Rd
Tel: (033) 342 1804/01
Hours: Tues - Sun 10am - 6pm
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Shan Jacobs
Landscape (detail)
Oil painting
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'Sky Lines' - Shan Jacobs at the Tatham
Shan Jacobs sees landscape in intimate rather than grandiose terms. Drawing strongly on an aspect of the Romantic tradition that has characterised a large portion of South African landscape painting, she works in an intensely textured manner. Drawing off her emotional responses to the subject, she fragments and repositions these landscapes to evoke what she feels rather than describe what she sees. Jacobs teaches art at Alexandra High School.
Closing: September 30
Tatham Art Gallery, corner Longmarket St and Commercial Rd
Tel: (033) 342 1804/01
Hours: Tues - Sun 10am - 6pm
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