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Indepth Arts News:
"CECILY SASH: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS"
2000-05-18 until 2000-06-07
UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH - UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
STELLENBOSCH, ,
ZA South Africa
Cecily Sash, who since 1975 lives and works in Britain,
(presently in Wales), celebrated her 75th birthday in October
1999. To celebrate this occasion she decided to exhibit her new
work at the galleries of 3 universities in South Africa, country of
her birth. Last year, during her short visit to the country, this
exhibition was presented at Wits' Gertrude Posel Gallery (2-
20 October) in Johannesburg and UCT's Irma Stern Museum
(2-19 November ) in Cape Town.
During 1955-75 Sash lectured art at the University of the
Witwatersrand. Some of her students are now well known
artists and art educators, for example Judith Mason, Terry King
and Greg Kerr. During the forties Sash herself studied as an
artist and teacher at the Witwatersrand Technical Art School
(Maurice van Essche) in Johannesburg and the Camberwell
School of Art in London (Victor Pasmore). Subsequently she
obtained the BA and MA in Fine Arts at the University of the
Witwatersrand.
The art works exhibited on this occasion are mostly abstract
portrayals of a number of organic forms referring to the artist's
recollections of a recent visit to Egypt. They are linear composite
scenes of recognisable subjects, such as trees, water, fishes,
birds and the mantis. Critics have referred to these works,
mostly executed in charcoal and pastels on paper, as
metaphysical compositions
The following was recently noted by Alex Dodd on the Web
(Mail and Guardian,ZA@Play, 14/10/99):
Things change and Sash has been through many stages and re
inventions in her vast artistic career. Her recent works bristle
with those fundamental elements: dry, arid, spiky, thorned,
attenuated. It might not be 'The Transvaal' that she is painting
today, but the Transvaal in her has never gone away.
(written by Prof Muller Ballot)
The following items will be on sale during the exhibition:
Book by Victor Thorne (ed), Cecily Sash: Working Years
(1999), R200-00 per copy. - artslink
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