Listing(s)
'Spectacular'
Lauren Kalman at University of Stellenbosch Art GalleryLauren Kalman’s work has focused on the creation, documentation, and display of wearable sculpture, electronic adornments, photographs, video, and performance. Diseases like elephantiasis, acne, cancer, and herpes are presented as jeweled infections, fabric growths, or wearable instruments. They are hybrids of the grotesque or undesirable aspects of the body and objects we associate with beauty, status, health or wealth.
The body of work being exhibited, titled Spectacular, references the spectacle of images of bodies in contemporary media. This body of work is comprised of wearable sculpture and video that critique the fashion industry’s ability to sexualize the experience of pain, disfigurement, illness, and abnormality, and to promote this sexualization as a desirable aesthetic. This work explores a territory between enhanced sexual or sexualized body parts and deformity.
Spectacular combines traditional craft and garment construction techniques with a critical investigation into the depiction of illness, stigmas of illness, and sexualizing of the abnormal, in both contemporary and nineteenth century visual culture. The materials are chosen because of their connection to accumulation of wealth, privilege, and style. For example, the fabric objects reference lingerie. These material references are in direct contrast to the form of the objects. The wearable objects are derived from contemporary and nineteenth century medical images and portraits of side show “freaks.” The moving image play an integral role in our observation of both illness and fashion. Videos present the objects in situ.
Lauren Kalman is a visiting American artist whose practice is invested in installation, video, photography and performance. Through her work she investigates perspectives of beauty, body image, value, and consumer culture.
23 May 2012 - 23 June 2012
'Ons Land/Our Land: The Johannesburg Station Panels revisited'
Carl Becker and Monique Pelser at University of Stellenbosch Art GalleryJ H Pierneef's Johannesburg Station Panels, made in the early 1930s, are cornerstones of South African landscape painting. They hung in the concourse of the old Johannesburg railway station and depicted 28 views taken from South Africa and Namibia. These highly stylised works have been seen by thousands of people over the past 80 years.
In 2007, photographer Monique Pelser and painter Carl Becker independently set out to explore whether these places ever existed and if so what they look like today. The results of their travels in Pierneef's footprints will be exhibited in collaboration at the Stellenbosch University Art Gallery.
14 April 2012 - 12 May 2012
'Bos - Contructed Images and the Memory of the South African "Bush War"'
Christo Doherty at University of Stellenbosch Art GalleryThrough the use of constructed photographs based on images from the media coverage of the time, Christo Doherty explores the effect on the national psyche of apartheid SA's border wars that became an unspeakable episode for a generation of white South African men.
12 May 2011 - 23 July 2011
'Mother Nature: Art and Psychology in Conversation'
Various Artists at University of Stellenbosch Art GalleryThe image of a mother and her infant represents, in archetypal form, our earliest experience of being related. From this theme, much Art and most of modern Psychology has emerged. The exhibition will highlight key elements in the relationship between the primary caregiver and child, from the perspective of Art as well as Psychology. The former will provide an interpretation of this primary relationship in our time, as experienced through the lens of Art. The latter provides research findings on what primary caregivers do naturally all over the world, independent of socio-economic status, level of education or cultural background, and the extent to which they respond to their infants in the same ways.
Curated by Elzan Frank, an Educational Psychologist at Stellenbosch University, the exhibition includes work by Marlene Dumas, Jodi Bieber, Claudette Schreuders, Lyn Smuts, Sonya Rademeyer, Simone Scholtz, Leonora van Staden, Benedicte Kurzen.
The exhibition will be opened by Marlene Dumas, 6.30 Thursday 11 November
11 November 2010 - 12 February 2011
10 Filosofiese Vrae: 10 Philosophical Questions
Group Exhibition at University of Stellenbosch Art GalleryIncluding works by Paul Cilliers, Karlien de Villiers, Keith Dietrich, Leon Fouché, Elizabeth Gunter, Johan Hattingh, Marthie Kaden, Nanette Nel, Vasti Roodt, Werner Schoeman, Hannes Smit, Kathryn Smith, Carine Terreblanche, Hentie van der Merwe, Vivian van der Merwe, Willie van der Merwe, Ernst van der Wal, Anton van Niekerk, Lize van Robbroeck and Minka Woermann
The exhibition will be opened by Prof Lize van Robbroeck at 6:30 pm on 3 September.
03 September 2009 - 04 October 2009
