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Indepth Arts News:
"Emergence"
2000-02-01 until 2000-03-25
Standard Bank Gallery
Johannesburg, ,
ZA South Africa
Emergence tracks developments in the practice, presentation and
interpretation of visual arts in South Africa over the last 25 years. The
framework structuring the exhibition is that of a conceptual journey through
this period of major global and regional change. South Africa has witnessed
intense political turmoil, violence and sweeping transformation leading up
to the demise of apartheid, its first democratic elections in 1994 and the
adoption of the new constitution in 1996. It is not surprising in this
context that ideology has been strongly foregrounded and is the core theme
underpinning Emergence.
During this timespan it can also be argued that a distinctive South African
artistic identity emerges, generated by the divisions within South African
life. It declares its complexity through difference.
The exhibition is not chronologically ordered, rather each decade is
anchored by key works around which interrelated satellite groupings are
positioned.
Covering the terrain from the inception of television broadcasting in South
Africa to the information technology explosion of the Internet, Emergence
takes the audience from South Africa's isolation to its current position in
the centre stage of international attention. Well known artists such as
Jackson Hlungwane, Penny Siopis and William Kentridge are included, with
lesser known ones such as Albert Chauke and Sizakhele Mchunu.
The exhibition comprises over 150 works drawn from major public institutions
and private collections around the country, and is jointly curated by Julia
Charlton and Fiona Rankin-Smith in consultation with Marion Arnold.
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