Archive: Issue No. 69, May 2003

15.05.03 Trinity Session Solo at Standard Bank Gallery
15.05.03 Jürgen Schadeberg at PhotoZA
15.05.03 Joachim Schönfeldt at the Bag Factory
15.05.03 Camera Obscura at PhotoZA
15.05.03 Ilse Pahl at Spark Gallery
15.05.03 'Art and Zen' at HH Gallery
15.05.03 Eric Moller at Go-Ra Gallery
01.05.03 Kendell Geers at the Goodman Gallery
01.05.03 'Art & Urbanisation' at Warren Siebrits
01.05.03 American Master Printer at David Krut
01.05.03 Four Artists at ArtSpace
01.05.03 Kite Works Design Studio at Merely Mortal
01.05.03 Nhlanhla Xaba prints at Art on Paper
01.05.03 Brett Murray at the Standard Bank Gallery
01.05.03 HH Gallery in Parkwood
15.04.03 Tribute to Nhlanhla Xaba at JAG
01.04.03 'Show Me Home' at JAG
15.03.03 Schütz, Kirkwood and Aiken at the Standard Bank Gallery

15.05.03 Peter Binsbergen at AAP
15.05.03 Museum Day at the Pretoria Art Museum
01.05.03 Reinterpreting Hieronymus Bosch at Mind's-I
01.05.03 Cronje Lemmer at AAP
15.04.03 Sculpture Exhibition at Pretoria Art Museum
15.04.03 Revisiting the Seventies

Occupying both downstairs galleries, 'M.O: Trinity Session Artministration' is the trinity session's first solo exhibition, and is being billed as a self-critical 'portrait' and autopsy of the trinity session's work ethic and strategies.

For the uninitiated, the trinity session (sic) is a Johannesburg-based independent contemporary art production team practising in public/social art projects, project initiation and production, curating, research and critical writing. Three multidisciplinary artists direct the activities of the consultancy: Stephen Hobbs, Marcus Neustetter and Kathryn Smith.

Founded at the end of 2000 in direct response to a radical change in how the local artworld was structured, 'M.O: Trinity Session Artministration' presents almost two years' worth of projects. These range from artistic experimentation to applying similar skills to research based and/or commercial projects. The exhibition is divided into two distinctive areas, one focusing more on the idea of 'project artefacts', presented as a multimedia installation that will integrate the viewer in an audio-visual sensation of multi-layered drawn, projected and screen-based content.

In the adjacent gallery, information will be clearly laid out to introduce a range of contemporary art practices that looks at the complex nature of working as artists, curators, administrators and facilitators. Presented as both critical and tongue-in-cheek, these definitions, documents and diagrams can be used to navigate one's way through the exhibition, laying bare the intellectual property that makes up so much of what the trinity session is about.

The M.O of the title refers to both 'modus operandi' and 'mobile office', two requirements developed in response to common needs expressed by a growing network of artists and colleagues. Where possible, the trinity session acts as a facilitator, collaborating with or publicising young artists in various ways (international festivals, broadcast - online and television). This facilitation that takes advantage of building a knowledge base, while taking care of promotion and collaboration.

The exhibition will have a strong educational aspect, including guest speakers and an information handout. Penny Siopis, who wrote about the trinity session for Art South Africa, will speak at the opening of the exhibition.

Opens: 6pm, May 20
Closes: June 21

Standard Bank Gallery, corner Simmonds and Fredericks streets, Johannesburg
Tel: 011 636 4842
E-mail: bjfreemantle@sbic.co.za
Website: www.sbgallery.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 8am - 4.30pm, Sat 9am - 1pm

Undoubtedly one South Africa's most acclaimed photojournalist, Jurgen Schadeberg reveals a different side to his output in an exhibition simply titled 'fine images'.

A photographer who cut his teeth during the epochal Drum magazine era, Schadeberg is widely known for his pre-imprisonment studies of Nelson Mandela. These now sell for sizeable amounts, which is probably fair compensation for the years during which these images were used sans copyright. Schadeberg achieved some notoriety during his Drum years when he photographed singer Dolly Rathebe in a bathing costume on a mine dump in Johannesburg, the police stopping the pairing to enquire as to their doings.

'fine images' is an exhibition of lesser-known images. Meditative in tone, this showing offers entrepreneurial buyers an opportunity to acquire images from Schadeberg's extensive portfolio.

Opens: May 13
Closes: May 29

PhotoZA, 177 Oxford Road, Upper Level, The Mews, Rosebank (the old CD Warehouse)
Tel: (011) 880 0833 or Reney 083 229 4327
Email: info@photoza.co.za
Website: www.photoza.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm

'Cold Climate Love' is the title to an exhibition of works by Joachim Schönfeldt.

Although born in Pretoria in 1958, he grew up in Windhoek, Namibia where he completed school. In 1976 he enrolled for a course in fine arts at the University of Pretoria, but after two years was asked to leave. He completed a fine arts degree and a postgraduate diploma at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1981. During the 1980s he worked for Meneghelli Holdings as curator. Sch�nfeldt is one of the founding artists of The Bag Factory.

He has exhibited locally and internationally, this new series of works from his time in Sierre recently.

Opens: May 15
Closes: May 30

Bag Factory, 10 Minnaar Street, Newtown
Tel/fax: (011) 834 9181
Email: bagfactory@acenet.co.za
Website: www.bagfactoryart.org.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 3pm, Sat 10am - 1pm

Alongside the Jürgen Schadeberg exhibition, PhotoZA will also be hosting a group show featuring work by Vaal Triangle students and lecturers. Exploring a range of possibilities, the works move from flatly descriptive, in a reportage style, to abstract and fashionable. Some of the images on display certainly hint at the future potential of some of the students.

Opens: May 12
Closes: May 29

PhotoZA, 177 Oxford Road, Upper Level, The Mews, Rosebank (the old CD Warehouse)
Tel: (011) 880 0833 or Reney 083 229 4327
Email: info@photoza.co.za
Website: www.photoza.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 1pm

Recently refurbished, the Spark! Gallery reopens with works by Ilse Pahl. The exhibition explores the archival function of mass- produced decorative domestic objects that form part of a local visual culture.

The cheap ceramic ornaments and enamel bowls that form part of the exhibition have all been sourced from the artist's immediate private and public environment - Johannesburg. The artist explores the private and public meanings attached to these objects. In manipulating the ready-made, possible new meanings and contemporary narratives are suggested.

Says the artist: "I view the sources used for the works as anthropological evidence from a particular society at a particular time. The drawings are personal records, documents of objects that provide both fictional and historical information." Alongside drawings there will also be sculptural works on display, which have been assembled and joined together "in manner that is both playful and skilful".

Opens: May 21
Closes:

Spark!, 10 Louis Road, Orchards
Tel: (011) 622 8297
Pieter Vorster 082 574 2152; Glynnis Jackson 083 836 1210
Email: orchardsproject@worldonline.co.za, pietervo@joburg,org.za
Hours: Mon - Sat 10am till café-bar closes, Sun 10am - noon

'Art and Zen' is a new series of pen and ink drawings by artist Shui White.

Born on a sugar plantation in Nigeria, Shui has lived in six countries and travelled to over twenty-five. Her style is a fusion of Eastern and Western influences, but is nonetheless rooted in Africa. This diverse mix reflects on her mixed parentage - English and Chinese. Minimalist yet vibrant, White's art brims with energy and meaning. Not always what they first appear, her pictures are full of startling images that form and re-form.

For further details contact Meredith Randall on merecohen@hotmail.com

HH Gallery, shop 3, corner Jan Smuts and Bolton Rd., Parkwood
Tel: (011) 447 3683
Fax: (011) 788 8906
Cell: 082 378 8724
Email: merecohen@hotmail.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm; Sat 9am - 1pm

Eric Moller returns to Go-Ra with an exhibition of completely new works, entitled 'earthairwaterfire'. As the title suggests, he uses the four elements of nature as his inspiration for this collection of brilliantly coloured, richly textured and boldly expressive works. Moller's paintings for this show are stylistically varied, and attempt to capture the artist's fascination for "the whole interaction thing (sic) between man and nature, animals and earth, water and fire and so on."

Celia de Villiers, an art lecturer at UNISA and resident artist at the 2000 Standard Bank National Arts Festival, will open the show.

Opens: May 21
Closes: June 11

Go-Ra Gallery
53 6th Street, Parkhurst
Tel: (011) 880 9090
Email: rupa@wol.co.za Hours: Tues - Fri 9am - 6pm, Sat 9am - 2pm

The prodigal son returns. It has been more than a decade has passed since Kendell Geers' last solo exhibition at the Goodman Gallery and six years since his infamous lockdown at Pretoria's Fort Klapperkop.

Frustrated by local conservatism, as well as the glass ceiling of the art market, Geers left South Africa for Europe in 1998 to further develop his art and career. Since then he has closely followed in the footsteps of William Kentridge, often showing together in the same international exhibitions. In the past few years Geers has shown his work in many of the worlds most important museums, galleries and group shows, including Documenta XI in Kassel, the Villa Medici in Rome and the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh.

As his reputation has grown over the last few years so to has his work developed and changed. Still unmistakably South African in origin and influence, Geers has developed a distinctive style and language, transforming the realities of the global village into visceral comments on its inequities. From his memories of his homeland the artist created some of the most compelling reflections on the human emotions of fear, paranoia, guilt and racism. "The more recent works search out the spiritual in the everyday and the need for love while still believing in the spirit of Revolution," says the Goodman. "This spirit may be a revelation and provide fresh insight to many of the South Africans who previously may have found his work shocking or anti-social."

The Goodman show, titled 'The Prodigal Son', will include some of the works that featured on the 2002 Documenta XI, in addition to a series of photographs called Scorched Earth, taken during a personal visit to the country last year. These photographs document the surreal, black landscapes left behind after the savage fires that desecrate South Africa every winter. Geers will also present a number of small sculptures from his Twilight of the Idols series, works that establish a link between his African past and European present. Fresh from the Georges Pompidou performance, the Goodman Gallery will also be the first venue in the world to present the video works that Geers developed in collaboration with Belgian musician Patrick Codenys, from the band Front 242.

Opens: Saturday May 10 (NB: the gallery will have extended hours from 9.30am to 5pm)
Closes: May 31

Goodman Gallery, 163 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood
Tel: 011 788 1113
Fax: 011 788 9887
Email: goodman@iafrica.com
Hours: Tues - Fri 9.30 a.m - 5 p.m, Sat 9.30 a.m - 4 p.m

'Art & Urbanisation' examines the profound impact of the urbanisation process on aspiring black South African artists during the period 1940 to 1971.

Bringing together a host of pioneering black artists the show records the transition from rural to city life, as the townships and slums of Johannesburg and Pretoria became home to many black South Africans. Featuring Gerard Sekoto, Andrew Motjuoadi, Lucas Sithole, Gerard Bhengu, George Pemba, Ephraim Ngatane, Durant Sihali, Ezrom Legae, Dumile Feni and Julian Motau, this show presents a selection of gallery acquisitions made over the past two years.

Writing in the catalogue that accompanies this show, Warren Siebrits comments: "These pioneers of black African fine arts in South Africa� have all made a significant contribution towards evolving a unique visual language. Their works capture pictorially the effects of the urbanisation process on the rural population, having made this difficult transition to the urban centres. We see the loss of tribal custom and culture as Western forms of dress and codes of conduct became the norm. The sub-economic conditions of the townships and slums are frozen in time allowing us to ponder the great hardships faced socially, economically and politically by African people in their struggle for self determination."

Opens: Thursday May 8, 6.30pm
Closes: June 29

Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art
140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg
Tel: 011. 327-0000
Fax: 011. 327-5999
E-mail: seymour23@icon.co.za
Hours: Wednesday to Friday 12 - 6 pm, Saturday 12 - 4 pm

To celebrate the second visit by master printer Randy Hemminghaus, from New York's Galamander Press, David Krut Fine Art will host an exhibition of his collaborative work with some of South Africa's leading artists. Works by Bonita Alice, Willem Boshoff, Wim Botha, Retha Erasmus, Sandile Goje, William Kentridge, Colbert Mashile, Jo Ractliffe, Colin Richards and Penny Siopis will be on show.

Hemminghaus spent three months working at the Wits University Print Department in 2002, to introduce the photogravure process to local artists. His association with William Kentridge led to a major body of prints entitled Zeno Writing, which were included in the artist's recent exhibitions. Further collaborations were undertaken while Kentridge was artist-in-residence at Columbia University in New York.

During his stay in Johannesburg, Hemminghaus has worked collaboratively with local artists at the new David Krut Workshop at 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, which he helped to establish during his previous visit in 2002. One of the foremost master printers in his field, Hemminghaus also worked with David Krut's in-house printer Tim Foulds, as well as Robert Maledu on preparing work for the exhibition.

Hemminghaus will give a walkabout in the adjacent print workshop at 6.30pm.

Opens: Tuesday May 6, at 5.30pm

David Krut Fine Art, 140 Jan Smuts Ave, Parkwood
Tel: (011) 646 8595/ 880 4242
Fax: (011) 646 9932
Email: bettina@taxiartbooks.com
Website: www.davidkrut.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5pm; Sat 9am - 1pm

Antoinette Murdoch, Alex Trapani, Jennifer Lovemore-Reed and James Reed appear together on '(out of) Community of Property'. The title is intriguing given that Murdoch is married to Trapani, and Jennifer Lovemore-Reed to James Reed.

Antoinette Murdoch garnered critical attention soon after she graduated from Witwatersrand Technikon in 1996. 'Trane Trekkers', her first solo show held at the Civic Gallery in 1996, received a favourable review from Okwui Enwezor in an issue of Frieze magazine. Her elaborately constructed tissue dresses from this show were also included on Colin Richards' exhibition 'Graft', for the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 1997. As one critic has observed of her oeuvre, her art is immersed in the realm of domestic kitsch referencing themes of the home, family and women's 'home-making skills'. She has however avoided the trappings of a highly sentimentalised kitsch by skilfully transforming materials and objects with strong associative qualities into elegant musings on womanhood and the domestic arts. Murdoch will show her recent Oudtshoorn works, heart shaped sculptures made out of fabric tape measures.

Alex Trapani graduated from Witwatersrand Technikon in 1996. His first solo show, 'Part 1 - Covered', was held at the Generator Art Space in 1996. Since then he has participated on numerous group shows, including 1997's 'Four Rooms' and 1998's 'Tongue in Cheek', both at the Civic Gallery in Johannesburg. In 1999 he was a participant on 'Renaicide/ Mortenaissance' at the Millennium Gallery, and in 2000 exhibited on 'After New York', a group event showcasing former Ampersand Foundation fellows. In 1998 the artist spent two months in New York as an Ampersand fellow.

Opens: May 11
Closes: June 6

The Art Space, 3 Hetty Avenue, Fairland
Tel/fax: (011) 678 1206
Cell: 082 651 4702
Hours: Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm

This eclectic Craighall venue, devoted to the sale of art and design objects, will host a sale of exclusive individual furniture designed by well-known designer Charles Storr. The Merely Mortal crew will also unveil the Kite Works Design Studio, featuring audio visual equipment, website projects, architecture and interiors. Also on offer: works by emerging young artists, including Kathryn Smith.

Opens: May 8
Closes: end May

Merely Mortal, 356 Jan Smuts Ave, Craighall
Tel: 011 326 3820 (Heather Greig)
Email: kitework@global.co.za
Hours: Mon-Fri 9 a.m - 5.30 p.m, Thurs 7 p.m - 11 p.m [bar], Sat 10 a.m -1 p.m

The tragic death of Nhlanhla Xaba, the 1998 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner, is commemorated with this small showing of his prints.

A highly respected figure amongst his peers, Xaba first worked with the Bayajabula Cultural Group (a multimedia group of visual artists, musicians and performers) in the early 1970s. "In my art I attempt to convey a painter's struggle," he once stated of his art. "I am concerned with shifting boundaries mental and physical. On the canvas and in life, these boundaries, are continuously shifting and are complex, centred around the economics and politics of place and time, also geography and physical space."

Xaba first studied art at the influential Rorke's Drift centre in KwaZulu Natal, in 1981, the centre closing down (due to unrelated factors) soon after he joined. In 1986 he joined the African Institute of Art at the Funda Centre in Soweto, where he trained as an art teacher and taught both children and adults. Xaba joined the Artists Proof Studio in 1991 as a teacher.

"I attempt to convey - not the simplicity of representation - but a more complex and layered process," Xaba is also quoted as saying of his artistic method. "Neither the painting nor the approach is an attempt to surprise the viewer, instead it recreates what everyone knows. It reflects the process of life and living."

Opens: May 8
Closes: May 24

Art on Paper, 8 Main Road, Melville (next to Outer Limits bookshop)
Tel: 011 726 2234
Email: mwartonp@mweb.co.za
Hours: Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm

Following its run at the SANG, Brett Murray's 'White Like Me' comes to Jo'burg.

Typically abrasive, Murray manages to raise laughs as well as a few eyebrows in a series of pieces that take a thought-provoking and penetrating satirical look at post-Apartheid society. Many of the works take as their starting point the bland cartoon so typical of old American weeklies like the New Yorker. Twisting these, Murray exposes the vulnerable underbelly of both white and black South African society. Made in his signature mild steel cut-outs and perspex inlay, the works' attractiveness belie their satirical bite.

Murray, who resides in Cape Town, is currently completing a commission for the Cape Town International Convention Centre, which he won with San artist Tuoi Stefaans Samcuia.

Opens: May 21
Closes: June 21

Standard Bank Gallery, corner Simmonds and Fredericks streets, Johannesburg
Tel: 011 636 4842
E-mail: bjfreemantle@sbic.co.za
Website: www.sbgallery.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 8am - 4.30pm, Sat 9am - 1pm

Presenting a mix of design objects and fine art pieces, HH is the latest 'gallery' to open on the trendy Parkwood strip, opposite the Goodman Gallery. Situated in the uber trendy Haus House shop, the HH gallery is situated on the small mezzanine level space above the coffee shop.

Currently showing: jewellery pieces alongside photographs from Michael Meyersfeld' new book, Gaze. Meyersfeld's richly coloured photographic studies of Jo'burg's gay community are stylistically indebted to the UK photographer Nick Night but nonetheless worth a pause. Curator Meredith Randall has mentioned drawings as next in line.

For further details contact Meredith Randall on merecohen@hotmail.com

HH Gallery, shop 3, corner Jan Smuts and Bolton Rd., Parkwood
Tel: (011) 447 3683
Fax: (011) 788 8906
Cell: 082 378 8724
Email: merecohen@hotmail.com
Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm; Sat 9am - 1pm

Advance Notice: The Johannesburg Art Gallery will be holding a tribute show celebrating the work of Nhlanhla Xaba, winner of the 1998 Standard Bank Young Artist Award, who died under tragic circumstances in March 2003. The show is planned for June.

Xaba's artistic training began informally, with a three-year stint with artist and designer Madi Phaala in the late 1970's. Moving to Soweto in 1986, Xaba joined the Funda Art Centre in Diepkloof, where he received his first formal instruction in art. He went on to complete further degrees through UNISA.

Xaba was primarily a painter, using impasto techniques to work up rich, textured surfaces in oils and acrylics, but he also made drawings, sculptures and prints. In terms of visual language, Xaba drew directly on his experiences of living (and observing) in South Africa. "The kind of art that interests me explores ethnic-looking objects. I find rural scenes, objects and people more fascinating in terms of inspiration than the zigzag life of the urban setting." (Nhlanhla Xaba, 1998).

Journalist Fred Khumalo once noted, "...[Xaba] is producing some of the best paintings to come out of post-Apartheid South Africa. His work - gutsy, fresh and confident - has a strong rural accent. Verdant rural landscapes and people in ethnic gear rendered in striking colours and deft strokes are his signature." (Sunday Times, 12 July, 1998)

"In my art I attempt to convey a painter's struggle. I am concerned with shifting boundaries mental and physical. On the canvas and in life, these boundaries are continually shifting and are complex, centred around the economics and politics of place and time...These boundaries are also the urban and the rural, the contemporary and the traditional. I attempt to convey not the simplicity of representation but a more complex and layered process. Neither the painting nor the approach is an attempt to surprise the viewer. Instead, it recreates what everyone knows. It reflects the process of life and living."

Opens: June 8 at 11h00
Closes: July 13

Johannesburg Art Gallery, corner Klein and King George Streets, Joubert Park
Tel: 011 725 3130 / 3184
Fax: 011 720 6000
Email: DavidB@joburg.org.za
Hours: Tues - Sun 10am - 5pm

'Show Me Home' brings together contemporary artists in a variety of mediums, from video to drawing. Angela Buckland, Pitso Chinzima, Veliswa Gwintsa, Stephen Hobbs, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Colbert Mashile, Santu Mofokeng, Justice Jimmy Setumane Mokwena, Deborah Poynton, Jo Ractliffe, Usha Seejarim and Diane Victor are curated by Wits MA student Mads Damsbo.

The artworks in this highly intimate project express the warmth and comfort that goes with belonging to a place. Simultaneously the works reflect the ambiguities and insecurities of home in South Africa. Although the exhibition emphasises a personal matter, it is also highly important as a strategy for social and cultural exchange, as a means for strengthening tolerance and respect for differences, and provides a ground for the ongoing formulation of a shared, public space. For further information, call Mads Damsbo on 084 606 9620.

M&G columnist John Matshikiza will speak at the opening on Saturday April 5 at 4pm.

Opens: April 5
Closes: May 25

Johannesburg Art Gallery, corner Klein and King George Streets, Joubert Park
Tel: 011 725 3130 / 3184
Fax: 011 720 6000
Email: DavidB@joburg.org.za
Hours: Tues - Sun 10am - 5pm

'Schütz @ 60': Peter Schütz's exhibition spans about 20 years. Works range from symbolic chairs, to landscapes, Madonnas, art deco 'dumb waiter' figures, goddesses and mythological figures. Works from public and private collections as well as a number of new works will be on show.

'Coats and Coverings' is Fiona Kirkwood's tenth solo exhibition and takes place downstairs in the Gallery. Fiona is presenting some of the main works from her exhibition held at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in 2002. Kirkwood combines fine art and weaving to create monumental, highly textured multi media works. Since 1980, in her exploration of magical, ritual, social, political, environmental and spiritual themes, the concept of protection has been fundamental to her work. In this latest exhibition she has chosen the 'coat' as a metaphor for protection.

'Portraits by Appointment' is a lighter show, also taking place downstairs in the Gallery. Darren Aiken's chess sets have enjoyed wide appeal and include the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup, actors and actresses, old government/new government and many more. Darren's style varies from realistic rendering of features to caricature, which lends an air of satire to his work.

Opens: April 1
Closes: May 20

Standard Bank Gallery, corner Simmonds and Fredericks streets, Johannesburg
Tel: 011 636 4842
E-mail: SIsaac1@mail.sbic.co.za
Website: www.sbgallery.co.za
Hours: Mon - Fri 8am - 4.30pm, Sat 9am - 1pm

For his forthcoming exhibition 'Small is Beautiful', artist Peter Binsbergen took sixty tiles and painted them with various images with an African theme. Working with such modest dimensions, the artist found that he was compelled to discover the essence of his painted objects. Searching for the essence of an African culture, his works retain the intensity and feelings of his previous work. His paintings reveal the artist's deeply felt affinity for his African heritage - even if many of the images tend to be rather maudlin depictions of wild game.

Dr. Riaan Els, of the Carl and Emily Fuchs Foundation, will open the exhibition on Sunday, May 18 at 6pm.

Opens: May 18
Closes: June 5

Association of Arts, 173 Market Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
Tel: (012) 346 3100
Fax: (012) 346 3125
E-mail: artspta@mweb.co.za
Website: www.art.co.za/artspta
Hours: Tues - Fri 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sat 9.30am - 1pm

The Pretoria Art Museum will be celebrating International Museum Day on May 18 with an initiative called 'Art Fun @ Your Art Museum'. The project will comprise art activities for children as well as guided tours for the public to launch the educational packages that the art museum has to offer Tshwane schools and the local community. Guided tours, an Outcomes Based Education Art Activity using the current exhibitions in the Pretoria Art Museum as reference, as well as a movie are amongst some of the attractions.

Museum Admission: R 3.00 Adults, R 2.00 Children

For more details please contact Mmutle Kgokong.
Tel: (012) 344-1807/8
Email: ArthurK@tshwane.gov.za

Pretoria Art Museum, corner Schoeman and Wessels streets, Arcadia
Tel: 012 344 1807/8
Fax: 012 344 1809
Email: artmuseum@pretoriagov.za
Website: www.pretoria.gov.za/pam
Hours: Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm, Wed 10am - 8pm

Mind's-I art space is presenting an exhibition of recent work by its four curators, Diek Grobler, Michele Nigrini, Retha Buitendach and Gustav Vermeulen.

The exhibition is centred on the work of Dutch Renaissance painter, Hieronymus Bosch. The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (1450 - 1516) have always fascinated viewers, but in earlier centuries it was widely assumed that his diabolic scenes were intended merely to amuse or titillate, most people regarded him as "the inventor of monsters and chimeras". In the 20th century, however, scholars decided that Bosch's art has a more profound significance, and there have been many attempts to explain its origins and meaning. Some writers see him as a sort of 15th century surrealist- an artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter. His name is often linked with surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali, Ren� Magritte and Yves Tanguy.

The four artists on show all used Bosch's surreal flights of fancy as point of departure for a body of work confronting a diverse range of topics.

Opens: May 14
Closes: June 6

Mind's i Artspace, Shop 63 Brooklyn Square, Brooklyn, Pretoria
Tel: (012) 346 5131
Email: minds-i@lantic.net
Website: www.minds-i.co.za

Artists Cronje Lemmer presents new works on paper.

Opens: May 8
Closes: May 29

Association of Arts, 173 Market Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
Tel: (012) 346 3100
Fax: (012) 346 3125
E-mail: artspta@mweb.co.za
Website: www.art.co.za/artspta
Hours: Tues - Fri 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sat 9.30am - 1pm

'Earthworks/Claybodies' is a group show featuring the sculptural work of the artists Deborah Bell, Wilma Cruise, Guy Du Toit and Josephine Ghesa.

Embracing the original intentions of the designers of this 1960s architectural showpiece, the exhibition takes up three quarters of the Pretoria Art Museum. This will allow audiences to view all the sculptural work in a large and expansive environment. Curated by Wilna Cruise, Dirkie Offringa, Director of the Pretoria Art Museum, is quite pleased with the show. "The exhibition is strong and bold and will go down in art history as a benchmark in ceramic sculpture," he has stated.

The show is accompanied by a catalogue, and also features work by the photographer Doreen Hemp.

Opens: March 18
Closes: May 26

Pretoria Art Museum, corner Schoeman and Wessels streets, Arcadia
Tel: 012 344 1807/8
Fax: 012 344 1809
Email: artmuseum@pretoriagov.za
Website: www.pretoria.gov.za/pam
Hours: Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm, Wed 10am - 8pm

'Artworks from the Seventies' is a group show that revisits a rather stolid decade: the seventies. A period of contrasting energies, this show firmly reflects the conflicting styles of the era. Brightly coloured works inspired by the graphic style of the period are presented alongside minimalist, conceptual and surrealist-inspired works. The township style of the period is also shown, hinting at the strong influence of Black Consciousness and the political struggle at the time.

The exhibition presents international artists like Sidney Nolan, David Hockney and Paul Wunderlich alongside the South African artists Alexis Preller, Norman Catherine, Helmut Starcke, Lawrence Scully, Alan Crump, Dan Rakgoathe, Fikile Magadlela, Sidney Kumalo and Ezrom Legae. Women artists featured on this show include Anna Vorster, Makgabo Sebidi and Cecily Sash. The chilling surrealism of Judith Mason is also on display.

The interplay of styles showcased offers viewers an interesting insight into the period under review. South African artists working in an international style were highly inspired by modernism and abstraction. This was before the cultural boycott in the eighties. Exploring the essence of colour and light, conceptualism and abstraction were of importance. "Unlike most European [sic] artists at the time, the African [sic] artists of the seventies were highly aware and inspired by social political issues. Poverty, daily life activities and African spiritual and religious issues informed their work. The seventies gave birth to Black Consciousness and this brought about the notion of African surrealist expression, with the emphasis on African dignity and the spiritual injustice of political oppression and apartheid. Reviving African consciousness through art was essential."

Opens: Saturday, April 12
Closes: May 30

Unisa Gallery, Theo van Wijk Building (Gold Fields entrance), Unisa
Tel: (012) 429 6255/6823
Email: hattif@unisa.ac.za
Hours: Tues - Fri 10am - 4.30 pm or by appointment