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Kwazulu Natal
Images From the Edge is a show of women's work in the new NSA Gallery in Bulwer Road, Durban.July 20-August 7.
Gauteng
At the Goodman Gallery this week, a vast array of work by the country's leading artists such as William Kentridge, Norman Catherine and Cecil Skotnes, is on display prior to coming under the auctioneer's hammer on Sunday the 10th of August. It's all in aid of the Department of Arts and Culture Trust, and it's a great opportunity for art lovers to help the cause of art and get a bargain at the same time.
Life and 2 pieces
from Lisa Brice's
Staying Alive series,
now on show at the
Hanel Gallery.
Medium: Wood, plastic,
foam, nails
Carlos Garaicoa, Cuba,
Gavin Younge, South Africa,
& Fernando Alvim, Angola,
the three artists
participating in
'Memorias, Intimas, Marcas'
at the Cape Town Castle
Cape Town
At the Association of Visual Arts, Brendhan Dickerson will be showing 'marvels and absurdities' in steel and mixed media on a Carnival Show which opens at the Association For Visual Arts on August 4. Showing with him is Julia Tiffin and Michelle du Toit in a joint exhibition of painting and photography called Skin. Icelandic artist Karolina Larusdottir will also be on show.Opening at the Hanel on August 3 is Lisa Brice with a show called Staying Alive. Brice explores the strangeness of life in South Africa where domestic and recreational activities take place against a background of flickering suburban crime. The gallery will be installed with panels immaculately upholstered in white plastic providing the surface for welded wire drawings.
A long-awaited collaboration between artists from each of the three countries involved in the Angolan war, Gavin Younge from South Africa, Fernando Alvim from Angola and Carlos Garaicoa from Cuba, opened in B Block at the Cape Town Castle on August 1.
Entitled Memorias Intimas Marcas, the show is a sustained and powerful interrogation of aspects of the Angolan war. In preparation, the artists travelled to Cuito Cuanavale, the site of the largest battle between South Africa and Angola, heavily supported by Cuban troops. The battle was the turning point of the war, presaging the eventual pulling out of the Cuban troops from Angola, and the South African troops from Angola and Namibia. This is a show not to be missed. Until September 7.
month's Hot Invite:
Inside its transparent
acetate envelope
and ...
folded out to show
an image from the show.
Overseas
In Holland, Gabriel Clark-Brown is showing at Het Koninklijk Museum voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, from June 16 to August 10. His show is entitled Cleaner than Clean.
Clark-Brown wins this month's hot invite award for an invitation which arrived in a transparent acetate envelope looking like a special offer for a detergent.
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