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'Today is the Yesterday of Tomorrow (or, trying to find a bit of order amidst all the disorder)'

Gretchen van der Bijl at Commune.1

'unlike infinite regression or recursion, a strange loop arises when, moving up or down
through an ostensibly hierarchical system, one finds oneself unexpectedly back where
one started, unlike infinite regression or recursion ...'
 
 
Gretchen van der Byl work engages with those spatial questions that we find ourselves compelled to answer every day, as we move through the world. This body of work, presented less as a collection of discrete objects than as a series of ongoing experiments, takes its cue from those particular geometries, and spatial and linguistic devices, that fold back on themselves in loops of self-reference. What happens when that which is being described, and that which is doing the describing, unexpectedly turn out to be the same thing?
 
This is van der Byl’s fourth solo exhibition in Cape Town. Her previous exhibitions at the Association for the Visual Arts in Cape Town include Some Observations (2005), Cynopolis (2007) and We Already Know How This Will End (2010). This is her first exhibition at Commune 1 Gallery.

19 April 2012 - 19 May 2012

'Damn your eyes, damn your eyes' and 'Further Fictions'

Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman at Commune.1

Damn your eyes, damn your eyes and Further Fictions is a joint exhibition that explores the visual languages and conversations of two artists, Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman, who live and work in two different cities. In a conscious collaboration via email and the South African postal service they have endeavored to derive a joint yet evolving narrative space for their individual practices. This is the first exhibition to incorporate this collaboration.

Natasha Norman has an enduring interest in media culture and technology. Further Fictions, completed for her Masters in Fine Art at UCT (2011), is a meticulous meditation on the appropriation and re-production of visual information through the various reproductive processes of film, photography and print. Her work is a subtle engagement with the serial dynamic of filmic images and the hidden matrices of technological ‘sight.’

Nesbitt’s interest lies in the observation of the everyday, with her work focusing on a personal desire and need to draw out what is overlooked. Taking its title from Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel ‘To The Lighthouse’, Damn your eyes, damn your eyes focuses on the process of gathering and constructing an imagined space in relation to the illusion of time. These ideas of landscapes that exist in ones mind, yet cannot be found, are at the beginning stages of an ongoing narrative.

29 November 2011 - 25 December 2011

'Point Counter Point'

Nina Liebenberg at Commune.1

Nina Liebenberg recent MFA graduate from Michaelis School of Fine Art exhibits Point Counter Point. Her work focuses on illuminating the layered and interconnected relationships between sets of ideas and objects sourced from various disciplines along with literary, poetic and musical references. The result: an alchemical marriage.

26 October 2011 - 26 November 2011

'At Sea'

Katherine Spindler at Commune.1

Artist and educator, Katherine Spindler, a recent Michaelis Fine Art School graduate exhibits her Masters body of work, “At Sea”, comprising prints, paper cutouts, illuminated cases and book pieces focused on light and dust.

26 October 2011 - 26 November 2011

Michaelis Graduate Auction

Various Artists at Commune.1

The annual Michaelis School of Fine Art Graduate Auction is a not-to-be-missed event promising a range of work from graduate students at great prices.

This years event wil be opened by Sean O'Toole and features music by
Ginsburg & Herman: Ray-Ban & Bernstein?[http://www.facebook.com/ginsburgandherman]

All works donated by Michaelis graduate class of 2011:

Mia Chaplin | Nicoliene Coetzee | Tarryn De Kock | Desire De Villiers | Laura-Jo Diedericks | Mbongeni Dlamini | Jessica Falck | Matthew Gill | Haroon Gun-Salie | Yasmin Hankel | Rodan Kane Hart | Alexandra Karakashian | Olivie Keck | Rachel Kelly | Hyesu Kim | James William King | Roxanne Klink | Yentl Kohler | Kirsten Lilford | Nadine List | Nonkululeko Mabaso | Karabo Maine | Magdeline Mazibane | Jessa Mockridge | Nabeeha Mohamed | Fikile Mqhayi | Tasmin Naidoo | Emma Nourse | Ashleigh Papas | Joanna Pawelczyk | Richenda Phillips | Lili Probart | Jan Phillip Raath | Chloe Reid | Matty Roodt | Elizabeth Speller | Johke Steenkamp | Helena Steenveld | Anna Stielau | Lyanne Top | Brando Tucker | Christell Van Rensburg | Jacques Viljoen | Morne Visagie | Ashley Walters

13 September 2011 - 13 September 2011