Listing(s)

'Self-Organized Systems'

Neil le Roux at Gallery AOP

With Neil le Roux’s body of work ‘Self-Organized Systems’, the artist aims to ‘conceptualise simple rule-based behaviours that, when acted out and maintained, produce emergent behaviour that is not always predictable. The broader patterns can sometimes be anticipated, but never the specific intricacies of details.’

14 April 2012 - 12 May 2012

'Horizon'

Richard Penn at Gallery AOP

Richard Penn presents his second solo exhibition with Gallery AOP, titled 'Horizon'.

Says Penn about this latest body of work: 'As an artist I am interested in science and in the origins of things: the origins of life itself (abiogenesis), as well as the origins of a more personal cast in terms of the hereditary nature of such traits as a distinctive mode of "gesture" and of a personal "characteristic". "Horizon" continues the exploration started in my previous exhibition, "... and to that sea return", of these ideas through a kind of probing into areas of reality that are very difficult to visualize, such as that which is very distant, extremely large or minutely small.'

25 February 2012 - 03 March 2012

'Malete'

John Phalane at Gallery AOP

John Phalane makes map art, aiming to transcend the purely diagrammatic or semiotic. He embellishes his images with artistic elements, attempting to shift the relationship between maps and art. Phalane’s interest lies in mining cartography’s rich vein of concepts to upend its original intentions, mapping the individual experience of the world.

10 December 2011 - 28 January 2012

'Reading Room'

Jonah Sack at Gallery AOP

In Sack's latest exhibition, his first with GALLERY AOP, Sack draws attention to the art gallery as space. He avoids 'the perfunctory critique of "the white cube" type of exhibition space. Instead, Sack presents different kinds of spaces within the physical gallery space' through drawings, prints and artist’s books, invoking both far-off and near, close-up spaces.

08 October 2011 - 05 November 2011

'Rictus Sardonicus'

Judith Mason at Gallery AOP

The inimitable Judith Mason returns with her first solo show since her 2008 career retrospective at the Standard Bank Gallery. With this new body of work Mason explores the expressive potential of the open, grinning mouth. The mixed media drawings take as their point of departure a series of anonymous dental x-rays sent to her by a British collector. The results, while a bit schlock-horror (flies swarming the open orifice of Mouthpiece Prophet), are less Bacon-esque than you might think, with some moments of wry humour elevating the exhibition beyond the predictable.

10 September 2011 - 01 October 2011