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The AVA
in partnership with Spier
 
invites you to the opening of three exhibitions
 
OFFSIDE: CAPE TOWN 2010
by DAVID LURIE
 
Opening address by Judge Dennis Davis
 
CREATIVE BLOCK
150 Participating artists including Ricky Ayanda Dyaloyi, Liza Grobler, Marlise Keith, Nomthunzi Mashalaba and Xolile Mtakatya.
 
ORDINARY PEOPLE
by MZIMKHULU MANYISANE
 

Opening at the AVA Gallery at 6 pm
 
Monday, 28 June 2010 at 18h00

Exhibition Closes Friday, 23 July 2010 at 13h00



David Lurie - Long Street 1


Creative Block


Mzimkhulu Manyisane


David Lurie an internationally renowned photographer employs the Main Gallery with his exhibition Offside: Cape Town 2010. This evocative photographic exhibition focuses on the peripheries of Cape Town society at a time when all eyes are focused on what the South African propaganda would have us believe is the pinnacle of national importance and success; the World Cup. Offside: Cape Town 2010 is a counter point to the mass media branding of the World Cup by politicians and corporate sponsors as an African world cup, as a world cup for the people. This selection of photographs deconstructs and explores the irony and inherent contradictions promulgated by the media that has turned a blind eye to the realities of poverty, mass inequality and xenophobia in order to line the pockets of the chosen few.
 
The Creative Block is a project that invites both emerging and established African artists to transform standard wooden blocks (18 cm by 18 cm by 2.2 cm). Without restricting the artists' expression, the common format has proved to promote fresh, inventive exploration among even the most established of styles. With some sixty artists submitting works regularly once a month, more than a hundred and fifty artists have contributed to the project since its inception six years ago.
 
On the 3rd of July, a competition will be held to encourage art lovers to compile their own collections of Creative Blocks. These small collections will be reviewed by a panel of judges (Gabriel Clark- Brown editor of the South African Art times, Kirsty Cockerill director of the AVA Gallery and Melvyn Minnaar a prominent art and wine critic) the winner will receive a Creative Block of their choice courtesy of the Creative Block.
 
Ordinary People an exhibition of Paintings by Mzimkhulu Manyisane employs the Artstrip. Manyisane's interest lies in capturing the extraordinary in the ordinary, his keen colour sense and obsessive mark making bring a dynamic expressionistic stance to the social realism of his subject matter. Urbanization, migration and community are negotiated with rhythm and sensitivity.


 



Own Goal 

 
The exhibition closes at 1 pm on the 25th of June 2010 
 
Participating artists:
Sanell Aggenbach, Lynette Bester, Stuart Bird, Matthew Blackman, Kevin Brand, Katherine Bull, Karen Cronje, Connor Cullinan, Justin Fiske, Carol-Anne Gainer, Jonathan Garnham, Svea Josephy, Anton Karstel, Marlise Keith, Tim Leibbrandt, Lizza Littlewort, Virginia MacKenny, Charles Maggs, Lindile Magunya, Bettina Malcomess, Richard Mason, Xolani Moshani, Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi, Anet Noval, Jo O'Connor, Colin Payne, Jeremy Puren, Willie Saayman, David Scadden, Linda Stupart, Michael Taylor,  Johann van der Schijff, Max Wolpe, Ed Young, Dale Yudelman.
 
Curated by the AVA Football Club
 

Own Goal, rather than referring to the accident in a soccer game when a player kicks the ball across their own goal line, is a reflection upon goals in the personal and possessive sense. 
Goals or milestones in life can be elusive to attain, they can be hidden or explicit, impossible or mundane. Sometimes milestones even come about as the result of an accidental or unintended occurrence. 
Own Goal in this context is interested in the psychology of the moment when a particular milestone is achieved or identified. 




 

Association for Visual Arts Gallery
35 Church Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Gallery hours: Weekdays 10h00 to 17h00,
Saturdays 10h00 to 13h00
Phone: +27-21 424-7436,
Fax: +27-21 423-2637,
avaart@iafrica.com
www.ava.co.za

                             
Wine at the opening is kindly sponsored by Spier www.spierwines.co.za                                                
 


                       
 


                                               

      

                            

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