Candice Breitz
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Candice Breitz at Iziko South African National GalleryIs South African art merely the addendums to pudendums and race? One would hardly be at fault for thinking that at least the second part of this was true when listening to some of what Candice Breitz said, while talking to a group of young students, at the National Gallery. ‘White South Africans,’ she stated, at the walkabout, ‘have caused all the problems, as you know’.
25 April 2012 - 22 July 2012
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Babel Series
Candice Breitz at blank projectsOne of Candice Breitz’ early works, ‘Babel Series’ consists of seven constantly stuttering DVD loops, taken from fragments of footage of rock musicians including Madonna, Wham! and Grace Jones to Queen, Prince, Abba and the Police. Played simultaneously in the installation space the voices clamour together to form a cacophonous babble that echoes the biblical story from which the title is drawn, as well as emulating the basic sounds that form language on the brink between meaning and meaninglessness.
The show forms part of ‘Dada South?’ an exhibition curated by Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith at Iziko South African National Gallery, as well as being the official launch of the new blank project space and partnership with the Goethe-Institut.
11 December 2009 - 08 January 2010
Candice Breitz at Espoo Museum of Modern ArtCandice Breitz,(b.1972 in Johannesburg), the South African photographer and video artist now living in Berlin, will bring four key video works to EMMA. Breitz is known for her technically demanding kaleidoscopic, multi-channel video installations which, on the basis of commercial pop culture, study the impact of film- and pop-stars on the life of their fans.
EMMA will show the 14-channel music video King (A Portrait of Michael Jackson) 2005 interpreted by Michael Jackson fans and the 30-channel music video Queen (A Portrait of Madonna) 2005 interpreted by Madonna fans.
24 February 2010 - 06 June 2010
Candice Breitz, 'Same Same' at The Power Plant, Toronto
Candice Breitz at The Power PlantCandice Breitz’s ‘Same Same’ is the artist’s first North American survey exhibition. The show will premiere a series of new works, shot in Toronto, which focus on identical twins. The new series titled Factum was fundamental to the project from the outset, the primary commission in 2009 of a program The Power Plant launched in 2006 to facilitate production of significant new works.
The exhibition’s title derives from an expression of Thai origin: 'Same, same, but different'. Works include, Four Duets (2000), which considers sameness and difference in relation to four renditions of the archetypal love song; Becoming (2003), where Breitz introduces the consumer of popular culture as a subject in the form of herself to explore the way ideals of femininity and desirability are produced through Hollywood 'chick flicks'; and Legend (A Portrait of Bob Marley) (2005), the first of a series of multi channel portraits of illustrious pop stars such as Marley, via performances by groups of their fans. The exhibition also presents Him + Her (1968–2008), where Breitz focuses solely on the celebrity icon, and in particular the identification processes that are both produced and enabled through popular cinema, restricting herself exclusively to performances by Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.
Factum, named after Robert Rauschenberg’s near-identical paintings Factum I and Factum II, 1957, focuses on identical twins and one set of identical triplets as subjects. Each individual was recorded in isolation from their sibling, but when presented side-by-side one can see the dynamic between their identical appearances. Factum reflects on the relationship between the individual and the double.
19 September 2009 - 15 November 2009
'Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity'
Jo Ractliffe, Guy Tillim, Kay Hassan, Berni Searle, David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng, Hentie van der Merwe, Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi, Candice Breitz, Zwelethu Mthethwa and Nontsikelelo Veleko at The Walther CollectionThe Walther Collection opens to the public on June 17, 2010 with 'Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity', introducing works from its African collection. Under the curatorial direction of Okwui Enwezor, the exhibition comprises a series of four projects filling all nine galleries in the three buildings of the new exhibition space in Burlafingen near Ulm, Southern Germany. The exhibition integrates the work of three generations of African artists and photographers with that of modern and contemporary German photography. This combination of African and German works will serve as a model for the kind of curatorial process that animates the character of the collecting program.
Works in the collection include those by Berni Searle, Candice Brietz, Nontsikelelo Veleko, Zanele Muholi, Hentie van der Merwe, David Goldblatt, Kay Hassan, Pieter Hugo, Guy Tillim, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Santu Mofokeng and Jo Ractliffe.
17 June 2010 - 17 October 2010
'Extra'
Candice Breitz at Iziko South African National GalleryCandice Breitz's first show on SA soil for a while, now at the Iziko South African National Gallery includes the major work Factum (2010) and her latest work Extra (2011). This is an important showing of videos and photographic prints from this SA-born Berlin resident, whose career has garnered great international attention for more than a decade.
25 April 2012 - 22 July 2012
'Extra'
Candice Breitz at Standard Bank GalleryCandice Breitz's first show on SA soil for a while brings together major works Mother + Father (2005), Factum (2010) and her latest work Extra (2011). This is an important showing of videos and photographic prints from this SA-born Berlin resident, whose career has garnered great international attention for more than a decade.
08 February 2012 - 05 April 2012
