THEME: “CONTEMPORARY CREATION AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS”
The tenth edition of the biennale takes place in a particular
context. Indeed 2012 is the year of the elections, as was 2000. This
year also marks the twentieth anniversary of the longest established
biennale on the African continent. A gathering well known to the
international art scene, DAK’ART is scheduled in accordance to its
biennial calendar. The theme chosen for this edition stands as a pretext
to examine, through various angles, the dialogue contemporary artists
engage with a social environment in constant change.
Throughout the world, and particularly in Africa, times of crises have
given way to periods of stability. Some countries are recovering from a
financial crisis, others, from a social dead-end; people’s movements
have never been so crucial in the quest for a new equilibrium. In this
quest, culture is one of the significant levers to activate. Each time,
artists have played an instrumental role in social mobilization and in
the raising of individual and collective awareness and engagement.Read more...
News:
Art:
3 Exhibitions Opening at the AVA
The AVA Gallery in partnership with Spier
invites you to the opening of Three Exhibitions and a Church Street party,
jointly hosted with our neighbour Cafe Mozart and music by Jeremy
Oliver.
The exhibitions are as follows:
INGEKLEUR: OUTSIDE THE LINES
Igshaan Adams, Robyn-Leigh Cedras, Dion Cupido ,
George Hallett, Lee-Anne January, Vivien Kohler, Craig Masters, Selvin
November, Sophie Peters, Ayesha Price, Roderick Sauls, Donovan Ward, Mak 1
HELLO OSCILLATOR Nathan Gates
STERNTALER Elize Vossgatter.
Opening at 18:00
on Monday, 12 March 2012.
Exhibition closes on Wednesday, 4 April 2012 at
13:00.
The Bushman Candles Art Exhibition at Everard Read
A celebration of wildflowers and wilderness. A fundraiser will be held at the Everard Read Gallery, for Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wildflowers (CREW).
Speakers include: Prof George Bredenkamp and Domitilla Raimondo. More Information
Rowan Smith at Volta NY
WHATIFTHEWORLD/GALLERY is pleased to announce that it has been selected for the VOLTA NY art fair in New York for the third consecutive year. For the 2012 installment the gallery will be presenting new works by Rowan Smith. Read more...
Lisa Brice at Goodman Gallery
Goodman Gallery Cape is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Brice, produced over the course of the last two years in London and featured in Vitamin P2, Phaidon’s recently published anthology of painting. The paintings explore the possibilities and properties of vivid colour, how it is optically perceived, and the effects of the afterimage created by red-green vision in particular. Read more...
Paul Emmanuel selected for 2012 French residency
Paul Emmanuel has been selected as a 2012 laureate for the Paris based Institut Français Visas Pour la Creation residency in Paris, France.
Engaging with concepts of memorial and public grief, The Lost Men is exhibited as a site-specific temporary installation in selected sites which bring their own history and relevance that engages the content of the work. The viewer encounters the installation which reflects the artist’s personal expression presented in a specifically selected public arena. Read more...
Guy Tillim at Huis
Marseilles in Amsterdam
[“My journeys have been idiosyncratic, often
purposeless, not so much to commit journalism as to travel for its own sake.”]
The images of the South African photographer Guy Tillim
(1962, Johannesburg) display an analytical precision that never fails to stir
up the emotions. His photographic career began in the latter years of
apartheid, and this period continues to affect his work. In the ten short years
that he has worked as a freelance photographer for local and foreign media,
including Reuters and Agence France Presse, he has moved away from
photojournalism and towards a much more humane and subtle approach to his
themes. Read more...
RADAR
Group Exhibition
Salon
91 invites you to RADAR, A
Group Exhibition of Illustration. Opening 14 March 2012. Featuring: Mieke van
der Merwe, Jean de Wet, Bruce Mackay, Linsey Levendall and Michael Tymbios.
Exhibition
closes 31 March 2012.
Paul du Toit at Gallery Momo
Gallery Momo would like to welcome our new artist, Paul du Toit.
Three Elephant Sculptures Vandalized at Durban's Warwick Triangle
EThekwini municipal workers removed the green
shade cloth covering the three elephant sculpture at Durban’s Warwick
Triangle, leading to fears that the city might be removing the
disputed structure. However, the city had begun
cleaning the site after they agreed to a High Court order to preserve
the Warwick Junction sculpture from further destruction by vandals who
had looted the art works.Read more...
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Towards a Public Art Policy for a World Design Capital
The challenges of urbanisation and the development of cities have both inspired and disillusioned public artists. The inspiration is borne out of the myriad of possibilities for representation of, and engagement with, a public freshly re-configured and continually morphing, in accordance with shifts in densities, identity markings and spatialities. The disillusionment has arrived with the difficulties in negotiating bureaucracies mainly wrapped up in regulating public space as backdrops for commercial interests. How does a simple act of art-making survive in a public space of little reward? How do artists negotiate these structures? How can artists create without fear of harassment, especially if it is in the interests of shaping and developing this engagement? Read more...
Neo Muyanga reveals his new opus at GIPCA’s Great Texts
Well-known musician Neo Muyanga will give an illustrated talk about his new composition as part of GIPCA’s Great Texts/Big Questions series. Using his animated designs and selections of music, Muyanga will discuss the genesis of the new work, the conceptual basis for it as well as the considerations of mounting the work inside one of our country’s most contested terrains – the Iziko South African National Gallery. Read more...
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