Archive: Issue No. 97, September 2005

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DURBAN

2.09.05 'A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa' at the KZNSA
2.09.05 Peter Bendheim at artSPACE durban
2.09.05 Terrence Patrick at artSPACE durban
2.09.05 Gabisile Nkosi at the African Art Centre
2.09.05 'Intersection': Red Eye at DAG

5.08.05 Positive: AIDS in 2005 at DAG
5.08.05 Bernice Stott at ArtSpace
5.08.05 'Women by Women' at DAG
 

DURBAN

Nicholas Hlobo

Nicholas Hlobo
Hermaphrodite 2002
Tyre inner-tube, carpet strings and tassles

Jeannot Ladeira

Jeannot Ladeira
Displacement 2002
Cardboard boxes, African textiles and photographs

Nontikelelo Veleko

Nontikelelo Veleko
Undergo another 400 years of slavery or revolt! 2002
Colour photograph
 


'A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa' at the KZNSA

'A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa' opened at the Museum of the National Centre of Afro-American Artists in Boston, Maine on April 2, 2004, and travelled to numerous other centres in the US. The KZNSA Gallery is the only venue in South Africa to host the exhibition which marks the historic celebration of our democracy through the visions of emerging contemporary South African artists. The 20 young artists featured examine ways that identity has been defined, searching for means of expression that are personal in experience and universal in understanding.

Artists Thando Mama and Rudzani Nemasetoni, for example, reflect differently to how the state defined identity. Nemasetoni uses images from his family's 'pass books', the notorious South African identification book that black people had to carry. Mama uses his own body as a site for the recovery of meaning and power associated with the black subject. Artists look at a variety of complex issues particular to the new South Africa such as urbanism, xenophobia, violence, AIDS and poverty.

The show articulates the variety of strategies that artists use to connect their living history with the past. The exhibition acts as a framework, which allows the works to create a conversation that explores the impact of apartheid and bears witness to the complexities and multitude of issues that South Africa is confronting today.

Opens: 6pm, August 30
Closes: September 24


Peter Bendheim

Peter Bendheim
Untitled (detail from installation)
Photograph
17.78 x12.7cm
 


Peter Bendheim at artSPACE durban

'Snaps' is an exhibition of photographs by Peter Bendheim, the editor of Durban's Metro Beat magazine. This is Bendheim's first solo exhibition, and consists of 'snapshot' images of Durban and other places. His use of intense colour saturates the images, making them more alive, and almost surreal. Bendheim is seldom without camera in hand, and his fondness for the city of Durban emanates from this body of work.

Opens: 6.30pm, September 12
Closes: October 1


Terrence Patrick

Terrence Patrick
Turning into Stone
Watercolour on watercolour paper
85 X 60cm
 


Terrence Patrick at artSPACE durban

The exhibition, 'Chinese Whispers' by Terrence Patrick will showcase paintings and drawings from the last decade or so. Patrick has painted for most of his adult life and considers the Durban poet artist/poet Willie Chalmers to be one of his most important influences. His works have allegorical or symbolist intentions, which he defines as a kind of 'magical realism'. Patrick strives towards creating in art the mood of music, dance and poetry. His work is often ironic, erotic or comic.

Opens: 6.30pm, September 12
Closes: October 1


Gabisile Nkosi

Gabisile Nkosi
Mama wami
Linocut on paper
50 x 70cm

Gabisile Nkosi

Gabisile Nkosi
Wandile
Linocut on paper
50 x 70cm
 


Gabisile Nkosi at the African Art Centre

Gabisile Nkosi's linocut prints for this exhbition are inspired by the women who have influenced her, including her mother and many friends, and she has entitled the show 'Celebrating the Spirits'. Nkosi has held many workshops and has participated in numerous exhibitions locally and internationally.

Opens: 5.30pm, September 14
Closes: October 8



Red Eye at the Durban Art Gallery: Intersection

The Red Eye Art revolution rocks Durban Art Gallery once more with another explosion of multi-media mayhem. For the last several years the event has been hoovering up the cobwebs from the skeletons of art and honing the blade of Durban culture to a razor-sharp edge. It's the event that brings the street into the gallery and the gallery into the street. Red Eye is on the scene with an exciting new concept entitled 'Intersection' in which the Durban Art Gallery will be transformed from a sweet old lady into a voodoo biker mariachi. Participating artists will take a long, hard look at the gallery and its works and then radiate with radical, ingenious and astounding ideas, collaborations and creations which will reinvent the historic venue in unprecedented fashion.

For more information, please contact Liana on (031) 311 2268 or email turnerl@prcsu.durban.gov.za



Positive: AIDS in 2005

'Positive: AIDS in 2005', currently on display at the Durban Art Gallery, deals with the ever-controversial topic of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

Exhibition curator Carol Brown has chosen to include a range of artists on the show, all of the works focusing on the impact of HIV/AIDS in contemporary South Africa. None of the works were commissioned for the exhibition, but were selected from previous projects and exhibitions. The artworks focus on AIDS awareness, the reality of the disease and its far-reaching deadly grasp on all communities.

The 'Bodymaps' project, previously shown at SANG is here as is work by well known artists such as Langa Magwa, Churchill Madikida, Dineo Bopape, Clive van den Berg, Berni Searle, Gideon Mendel and Brenton Maart amongst others.

Opens: July 20
Closes: September 15


Beena Pradham

Beena Pradham
Her Road Ahead
Acrylic on canvas
76 x152 cm
 


'Women by Women' at DAG

'Women by Women' features painting by of women from Kashmir in the North to Kanyakumari in the South, and from Kutch in the West to Kamakhaya in the East of India. Its inspiration comes from a similar exhibition held in New Delhi last year on International Women's Day. Here each of the 60 participants has interpreted their own gender and role in a personal way.

Opens: August 24
Closes: September 6


Bernice Stott

Bernice Stott
Vacpacmuti
250 x 25 cm
 


Bernice Stott at ArtSpace

This is Bernice Stott's exhibition in fulfilment of the Durban Institute of Technology Fine Arts Master's degree. Her work is a journey into both the microscopic female body and the politics of body surrounding it in Southern Africa.

Consensuality between people is a delicate negotiation, which is often torn asunder by violent disregard. The idea that sexuality exists both as a medium of extraordinary beauty and a bringer of death through HIV/AIDS is explored in the work. It features photographic images and installation pieces, where one of the metaphors of choice and safety is the female condom. A sense of searching for mutuality, sustainability and containment permeates the work, yet it is not without the breaking out of containment to achieve beyond what is possible now.

Opens: August 31
Closes: September 10

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