Ed Young

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Arch

Ed Young at IDASAs Cape Town Democracy Centre

On August 18, 2010 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu opened a public installation by Ed Young at IDASA's Centre for Democracy. The installation comprised a superreal sculpture of the Archbishop swinging from a chandelier, neatly titled Arch. Chad Rossouw chats to Ed Young to get the inside story.

CR: The sculpture at IDASA was a competition by submission; is that right?

EY: It was quite interesting, as far as art competitions go. They approached Peter Hayes at VANSA and asked him to put together a selection of artists. He did an open call and also asked a few people to submit. The artists were then selected by IDASA and himself, based on portfolios, not on proposals. They selected about fifteen artist and they were invited to a site meeting and to do a presentation. And on that basis they selected a winner, which was Brendan Dickerson. But then they also wanted my work and Dan Halter’s. Instead of wanting the one work, they wanted three. They fundraised to get those as well. So the work wasn’t officially part of the competition but it was part of the process.

18 August 2010 - 19 August 2010

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'Arch'

Ed Young at Institute for Democracy in Africa (IDASA)

'Arch', Ed Young's super-real sculpture of the Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu swinging from a chandelier, is officially open for public viewing at IDASA’s Cape Town Democracy Centre.

01 September 2010 - 30 November 2010

'Alptraum'

Ed Young, Ian Grose, Wim Botha, Ruth Sacks, Linda Stupart, Zander Blom and Various Artists at Deutscher Kunstlerbund

Like George Orwell with his 'Room 101' in his predictive tale 1984, we all have our own version of what constitutes a nightmare, and for this reason, the project has been opened to a large number of artists whose many and varied personal nightmare versions, or visions, act to reflect this hugely variable human state of fears and fobias, pain and panic. 'Alptraum', the German for 'nightmare', is an artist-led project. It is a model which utilizes global communication between localized artist hubs and clusters to form an international grouping with the intent of opening a dialogue about this subject across borders and cultures in order to delve into the stuff and mind-murk that is collectively shared or completely random and unrelated, or individual and specific within the syndrome of 'The Nightmare'. Each artist draws on their own personal experience in order to visualize those anxieties, which take them beyond everyday dreams.

Working within the remit of the ‘artist-curated project’, all of the works in 'Alptraum' have been restricted in size and material in order to facilitate the low-cost postal transportation of the show from country to country. With each exhibition site taking responsibility to pass the show on to the next host, the number of works and artists may change or grow, and the approach to interpreting and hanging the show vary from space to space as the body of works meanders on from country to country. Having started in Washington DC and transferred to London, the exhibition is currently showing in Berlin. It will travel to Los Angeles next, followed by its arrival at blank projects in Cape Town. The Berlin iteration extends the exhibition to include the work of 19 South African artists, such as Sanell Aggenbach, Zander Blom, Ian Grose, Ruth Sacks, Linda Stupart, Wim Botha and Ed Young.

11 March 2011 - 15 April 2011

'Arch'

Ed Young at IDASAs Cape Town Democracy Centre

A public installation by Ed Young

 

18 August 2010 - 19 August 2010