Two new galleries/project spaces have opened up in Cape Town in the newly centralised creative space of Woodstock.

Raw Vision is Mike Fisher's first Cape Town venture, though work by this artist, collector and cultural producer has been seen as far afield as London, Israel and the US. The space opened on Thursday, April 16 with 'Messages from the Future' an inaugural exhibition by Mike Fisher. The work on show is a collection of colourful digital prints, exploring the artist's own emotional response to notions of the manic everyday of both present and future. Taking influence from the semiotics of primitivism and Modernist abstraction, Fisher presents a frenzied montage of optimistic reflections and dystopic visions, warnings and prophecies about the futures of the artist's imagination. Using images and symbols that are at once easily recognizable, and yet elusively free of predetermined meaning, Fisher's prints are always open to interpretation.

The second new space is a venture by Word-of-Art Creative Agency which opened on Tuesday, April 7 with the exhibition 'Group Soup'. The focus of this space seems to be strongly based on graphics, design and illustration with a mix of graffiti and urban based photography. Featured on the exhibition were some well known names in the field of graffiti such as Faith47, Black Koki and Rasty.

Raw Vision Gallery
89 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town
Tel: 076 581 9468
Email: fishermike@mac.com

Word-of-Art
66 Albert Road, Woodstock, Cape Town
Tel: 021 448 7889
Email: shani@word-of-art.co.za
www.word-of-art.withtank.com