Dineo Bopape

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Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program MFA Exhibition

Dineo Bopape at Fisher Landau Center for Art

Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts Program, in association with the Fisher Landau Center for Art, presents the 2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition, encompassing work by the 25 artists who will graduate from the program this May.

The show is curated by Anthony Huberman.

The artists on show are Christi Birchfield, Dineo Bopape, Haeri Choski, Leidy Churchman, Grayson Cox, Apolinario Cuyson, N. Dash, Samuel Ekwurtzel, Michael Gaillard, James Gortner, Shadi Habib Allah, Van Hanos, Nadja Marcin, Murad Mumtaz, Robert Rhee, Anna Rosen, Jessica Segall, Ivor Shearer, Gyung Jin Shin, Lior Shvil, Jared Thorne, Naama Tsabar, Jesse Weiss, Johanna Wolfe, and Zoe Wright.

02 May 2010 - 23 May 2010

'Spectral Lines'

Dineo Bopape and Lunga Kama at Bendana-Pinel: Art Contemporain

The exhibition 'Spectral Lines' is based on a simple double entendre, speaking of lines belonging to the colour spectrum, but also the lines of spectres, or ghosts. On the one hand, Dineo Bopape, Lunga Kama and Jessica Lajard share a considered interest in colour that sets them apart from other artists in their generation whose work relies primarily on conceptual elements. On the other hand, these three artists all invoke ghosts. The above two connotations of the title, however, are secondary to the potential as a metaphor of its more precise, scientific meaning.

It is no coincidence that Bopape, Kama and Lanard have performed the role of the outsider at various stages of their lives, variously through their gender, cultural heritage, sexuality or national origin. Their biographies invoke the notion of ‘être un espion’ as posited by Felix Gonzalez-Torres: the outsider who notices subtleties that others may not. In chemistry, a spectral line is a dark or bright line in an otherwise continuous spectrum of light, resulting from a single photon’s interaction with a quantum system. If one sees artists as these single photons, artworks become the lines that make the interaction with their environment visible. At the most fundamental level, this exhibition proposes that Bopape, Kama and Lanard produce the lines that appear in, and as a result determine, the spectrum of their generation.

06 November 2010 - 18 December 2010

'Ampersand' - A Dialogue of Contemporary Art from South Africa and the Daimler Art Collection

Athi Patra-Ruga, Dineo Bopape, Lerato Shadi, Willem Boshoff, Zander Blom and Michael MacGarry at Daimler Contemporary

In the year of the Soccer World Cup in our country, the Daimler Art Collection aims to continue its lengthy history of addressing and promoting South Africa’s cultural development with an international contemporary art exhibition in Berlin. This presentation is arranged in dialogue form, juxtaposing current performative, conceptual and abstract tendencies in contemporary South African art with selected works from the Daimler Art Collection. At this event in Berlin, the Daimler Art Collection (which concentrates on abstract, avant-garde movements and reduced conceptual tendencies from Bauhaus to current contemporary art) presents mainly new acquisitions in the field of international contemporary art for the first time.

The presentation of the ‘Ampersand’ exhibition includes site-specific installations and video art as well as paintings, drawings and photography. About 60 works are shown. While the
exhibition does feature selected predecessors, its main thrust is directed at current works from recent years by younger artists (most of whom are between 30 and 40 years old). Works by fourteen international artists from the Daimler Art Collection are shown in a dialogue with sixteen South African artists.

Artists on show include Zander Blom, Dineo Bopape, Willem Boshoff, Kay Hassan, Nicholas Hlobo, Abrie Fourie, Lawrence Lemaoana, Michael MacGarry, Nandipha Mntambo, Athi-Patra Ruga, Lerato Shadie, Rowan Smith, Nontsikelelo Veleko, Mikhael Subotzky, Sue Williamson and James Webb.

10 June 2010 - 10 October 2010

Bopape Dumas Muholi

Dineo Bopape, Zanele Muholi and Marlene Dumas at MMKA, Arnhem

This winter, the MMKA combines installations, photographs and videos by the South African artists Dineo Bopape (1981) and Zanele Muholi (1972) with a presentation of work from the year 1980 by Marlene Dumas (1953). The exhibition traces the formal and thematic relationships that emerge, including the use of found material, the sensual pleasure in the processes of collage, the display of the body, and the portrait as a metaphor. Their means of imagining is embedded in sharp critical reflection, making clear that despite the generation gap, this is a strong common source from which all three artists draw.

18 December 2010 - 13 March 2011