Claire Gavronsky

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're.collections'

Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky at Goodman Gallery Cape

rosenclaire: A Subtle Pairing

Twenty-five years ago, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky left South Africa for Italy, where they established an art teaching programme in Tuscany that has become the stuff of legend. In a recent Goodman Gallery Cape exhibition entitled ‘Re-collections’, their first show in their country of origin since that time, the duo present a body of new work that draws upon that decade-and-a-half’s teaching, learning, living and most of all engaging with art.

Although they have, since the fall of apartheid, spent several months a year in South Africa, their work has remained comparatively unknown in this country. One notable exception is their Soap Boxes outside the Iziko South African National Gallery, which has become one of the best-loved works in that institution’s collection and the site of many artistic interventions, fully in keeping with its creators’ intentions. I suspect that until this exhibition the few locals who knew of rosenclaire thought of them chiefly as facilitators and educationalists, but ‘Re-collections’ is bound to change those perceptions.

 

 

18 February 2010 - 13 March 2010

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're.collections'

Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky at Goodman Gallery Cape

Goodman Gallery Cape presents the first solo exhibition by rosenclaire in South Africa for over twenty years. Working under the name rosenclaire, Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky present a conversation between their respective and collective practices and identities in 're.collections'.

The show’s title refers to a collection of arbitrary objects and thoughts waiting to be re-ordered, renamed and remembered. A cross-pollination between the flea-market, the studio, art history and personal experience, the show is a juxtaposition of painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. rosenclaire refer to their work as context-specific, governed by implicit signification where the subject matter defines the choice of media and stylistic convention. 're.collections' implies a reference to collections, collecting, correcting, naming and renaming, and the reframing of cultural constructs of art and artifice.

18 February 2010 - 13 March 2010