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'Extra'
Candice Breitz at Standard Bank GalleryCandice Breitz's first show on SA soil for a while brings together major works Mother + Father (2005), Factum (2010) and her latest work Extra (2011). This is an important showing of videos and photographic prints from this SA-born Berlin resident, whose career has garnered great international attention for more than a decade.
08 February 2012 - 05 April 2012
Listening to Distant Thunder: the art of Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke at Standard Bank GalleryCurrently at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg is 'Listening to Distant Thunder: The art of Peter Clarke'. The exhibition, which runs until 2 July 2011, is aimed at honouring Clarke's life, work and contribution to art and cultural development in South Africa.
The exhibition traces the career of this seminal yet oft-overlooked South African artist, from his earliest works as a soci-politically sensitive teenager on the Cape Flats to his ambitious, large-scale paintings an a mature artist.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book of the same title, by curators Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin. The culmination of seven years of extensive research, the book traces Clarke's evolution and is a comprehensive account of his art.
04 May 2011 - 02 July 2011
'Super Boring'
Wayne Barker at Standard Bank GalleryWayne Barker's 'Super Boring' jaunts up to Johannesburg from February to April, showing at the Standard Bank Gallery.
The show is an evolved form of the original curated with Andrew Lamprecht for Stellenbosch's SMAC gallery in 2010. It sees Barker questioning and confronting contemporary South African culture, while celebrating our overall spirit of optimism.
The show is accompanied by a catalogue, which contextualises the work in relation to previous bodies of the artist's work..
02 February 2011 - 09 April 2011
'People, Prints and Processes: 25 Years at Caversham'
Various Artists at Standard Bank GalleryCelebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Caversham Press, this exhibition traces the artistic accomplishments of Several South African artists who spent time working at the Caversham Press. Founded in Kwazulu Natal in 1985, the Caversham Press was one of the first centres for excellence in printmaking in South Africa and provided a platform for artists of all races and economic backgrounds to learn printmaking techniques. Artists associated with the history of Caversham include Albert Adams, David Koloane, Bonnie Ntshalintshali, Peter Clarke, Andries Botha and Robert Hodgins. 'People Prints and Processes', which occupies the main exhibition space at the Standard Bank Gallery comprises over 100 works by 70 artists.
Downstairs at the Standard Bank Gallery is an exhibition titled 'Translations: Art into Jewellery', which shows the results of a collaboration between ten South African artists and Schwarz Jewellers.
14 October 2010 - 04 December 2010
'A Vigil of Departure: Louis Khehla Maqhubela 1960 - 2010'
Louis Maqhubela at Standard Bank GalleryThis large exhibition of Louis Maqhubela's paintings traces the development of the artist'c career through the Polly Street Art Centre and his movement away from so-called 'township art' and towards abstraction.
06 August 2010 - 18 September 2010
