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Absa L’Atelier Art Award Regional Exhibition 2011

Various Artists at artSPACE durban

A group show with the regional finalists of the Absa L’ Atelier 2011.

14 March 2011 - 26 March 2011

'Works 2006 - 2010'

Petros Ghebrehiwot at artSPACE durban

The works of Petros Ghebrehiwot, an Eritrean-born, South Africa-based artist, focus on society’s movement towards positive values, reflecting the power of unity, sharing, communication, agreement, conflict management, etcetera. Ghebrehiwot’s interest in this concept was inspired by the Eritrean people’s united resistance against oppression.

24 January 2011 - 12 February 2011

'The Art of the Construction Site'

Julie Mayo at artSPACE durban

'Having an extensive background in architecture, I have always had a fascination for construction sites: the energy, the chaos, the danger; the smell of wet concrete, sawn timber and freshly dug earth; the noisy carefree chattering of the labourers, the ear-splitting sound of metal against metal. The visuals created by scaffolding, danger tape, cranes, the geometric skyline and the inevitable abandoned broken shoe'.
 
This exhibition is a collection of digitally-manipulated photographs taken during the construction of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.

24 January 2011 - 12 February 2011

'The Chimera Of Shadows And Other Fantasies'

Anthea Martin at artSPACE durban

The objective of Martin’s exhibition is to look at the effect of light on objects within and without the spaces of her dwelling place.  The history of the house reflects the passage of time, by the nature of its changing functions and deteriorating surfaces.  Martin engages with the phenomenological experience of looking at ‘things’ within the house.  The architecture and objects within the house are given other dimensions by the presence of shadows cast from objects, caused by natural and artificial light at differing times of the day and night and differing axial points of the aspect of the site. Her research aims to explore this idea by creating something that exists in an artwork, but not in reality. An audio-visual presentation was created which expands on the theme of dislocating reality and playing with the metaphor of protective barriers erected as a form of survival.

15 November 2010 - 25 November 2010

'we loved being at home'

Caryn Nolan at artSPACE durban

The creation of this body of work, for her Masters of Technology (MTech) from Durban University of Technology, has taken place over a period of four years and has been informed by the research Nolan has done both into the history of her family and the history of needlework (Rozsika Parker, 1984 and other authors). Nolan has learnt that there are many artists (particularly female) who have come before her in the use of craft techniques in a Fine Art context. The feminist artists of the 1970s made advances with the use of needlework as a conceptual tool and she sees herself working within this tradition, in validating her matriarchal lineage. This relates to a questioning of the patriarchal value systems that have dominated society for many centuries, and a female attempt to take control of history using needlework as a strategy.

01 November 2010 - 13 November 2010