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'The Guilds and Unions Film'
Joachim Schönfeldt at Parking GalleryA ?lm on craftsmen and machines will start the three week-long exhibition by Joachim Schönfeldt on Wednesday 9 October at the Parking Gallery. Another two segments will be added to the exhibition in the following weeks.
Solms Astor wines will be served on the opening night and Three Ships Whisky at the last event on the 23rd of October. All Welcome.
09 October 2013 - 23 October 2013
'Battle of Music'
Joachim Schönfeldt at NIROX projects’If you were in Stellenbosch, for the Two Decades of South African Sculpture art festival, on Wednesday night, you would have been met with a most curious sight. The Delta Soetstemme choir and Delta Langbroeke band were vying for superiority in a musical battle, up and down Church Street. The Langbroeke, in blue jackets, were armed with loud, shiny brass instruments, while the Soetstemme, in white, held red and blue flags on long dangerous poles.
In my opinion, the Langbroeke started it all; they taunted and teased the Soetstemme with a cacophony of loud off-key music played defiantly too close to the Soetstemme. The Soetstemme retaliated by lowering their flagpoles; and moving forward in formation and singing boldly, the Langbroeke were forced to retreat. The sides were evenly matched song for song, high note for low. Ground was gained and then lost, gained and lost. Colours were changed from one song to the next, as the Soetstemme and Langbroeke were ingeniously wearing reversible jackets. First they were blue then white, and in the heat of the clash it was difficult to keep up with who was who.
Tiring, and realising there would be no resolution to this conflict, the Soetstemme and
Langbroeke wisely decided to join forces. They intermingled and walked alongside each other, playing and singing the last songs in harmony. Their sweating. battle-weary musical leader was delighted that the conflict had been resolved, and that the Delta bands had showed such strength and spirit by joining forces, and in the end the winner was the music.’ Cathy Macfarlane. 26-1
The concept for the exhibition performance at NIROXprojects, Arts on Main, is a continuance of this musical performance piece that took place in Stellenbosch, 2011, and also the Guild Flag performance at the Johannesburg Art Fair, 2011. Musician Attie Brand (Sprinbok Nude Girls) will be performing a piece with an accordion that was used during the Q & A performance in Stellenbosch, and various objects will be on display.
23 September 2012 - 10 October 2012
'Die Sêgoed van Maria en Martha James'
Joachim Schönfeldt at Gallery AOPJoachim Schönfeldt shows 'Die Segoed van Maria en Martha James (The Sayings of Maria and Martha James)' at Gallery AOP.
Joachim Schönfeldt was born in Pretoria. He completed his schooling in Namibia where his family relocated to when he was three weeks old. After graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand in the early 1980s, he worked for Meneghelli Holdings as an advisor, curator and researcher in traditional African art. He became a full-time artist in 1988. In 1989 he worked and lived in Italy before settling in Johannesburg the following year, writing criticism for a local daily and curating exhibitions.
Schonfeldt has exhibited in New York, San Francisco and Massachusetts in the USA and in Vancouver, Canada. He has also exhibited extensively in Europe: Paris, Berlin, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Porto, Glasgow, Turin, Umea, Sierre, Graz, Salzburg and Copenhagen. He represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale and at the Sao Paulo Biennale and participated in both Johannesburg Biennales (1995 and 1997). In 2008 he participated in the Gwangju Biennale.
He has worked with curators such as Okwui Enwezor (director of Documenta xi), Jean-Hubert Martin (past director of the Venice Biennale), Peter Weibel (past director of the Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Austria), Lauri Firstenberg (independent curator in New York), Joao Fernandes (curator at the Seralves Foundation in Porto, Portugal), Julia Charlton (Wits Art Galleries), Lioba Reddeker (Basis Wien) and Rory Bester (independent curator, Johannesburg).
05 February 2015 - 28 February 2015
