Listing(s)

'365 South Africa'

Alison McKay at Artspace

Alison McKay’s first solo exhibition, '365 South Africa', is on show at ArtSpace in Johannesburg. McKay’s work largely draws inspiration from the opinions and actions of the ordinary person in the streets of South Africa - their energy and need to survive.

Explaining '365 South Africa' McKay says, 'We see, we do, we say, every day. We are all doing it, just with varying degrees of commitment and via diverse means -but do we remember or are they just repetitive actions or words, often offered subconsciously?  Days and months drift by, and then we hang a new calendar. If we don’t write about every precious day in a diary, how do we propose to appreciate or at least acknowledge a year of life?'

'Disaster strikes a nation, "so-and-so" dies. I remember where I was when I heard the news but am I capable of remembering, or even willing to?'

For the entire year of 2011, Alison McKay set out to create one 20x20cm painting each day, illustrating a news headline for the day. She documented her progress in an interactive online blog (365southafrica@blogspot.com). McKay’s work is largely figurative and graphic and located within an urban aesthetic.

Says McKay, 'Word-of-mouth, newspapers, television, radio, internet; dozens of news captions consume my mind’s eye with every glance. There is no shortage of inspiration yet I battle to focus. Each day’s "headline-of-choice" offers clues to my mood, my fascination in that moment'.

11 April 2012 - 11 May 2012

'Out of the Village'

Wayne Vivier at Artspace

Wayne Vivier's second solo exhibition explores in paint a series of still shots from M. Night Shyamalan's film The Village.

07 March 2012 - 31 March 2012

'Excuses'

Leon Fourie and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren at Artspace

In this 'celebration of inspiring sculpture and painting' artists, Leon Fourie and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren offer the viewer the choice of accepting the work at face value or constructing a metaphorical landscape within which to interpret the work.

10 March 2011 - 26 March 2011

'Civilized Violence'

Jaco van den Heever at Artspace

Jaco van den Heever presents a new body of work titled 'Civilized Violence'. Van den Heever questions the ideological framework of our contemporary society through a series of large scale drawings, rendered with fine detail.

23 June 2010 - 14 July 2010

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Kim Gurney at Artspace

Kim Gurney's second solo exhibition, and her first at Artspace, sees her continuing an ongoing interest in generational legacies. She looks at the increasingly rapid disappearance of bees from the globe as a starting point for a exploration of the impact of humans on the natural environment and the mechanisation of natural processes.

Expect lightboxes, paintings, works on paper and mixed media constructions.

11 November 2009 - 02 December 2009