Ditto is a jewellery exhibition that launched at The Fringe on Kloof on Friday 4 May. The exhibition celebrates the serendipitous synergies between the design and the art worlds. Eight jewellery designers - Gillian Fuller, Anna Raimondo, Metaxia Sterianos, Emma Atkinson and Caryn Fourie, Eon Hoon, Megan McFall and Marietjie Beeselaar - have created works that discover their link to the art world.
Liza Grobler’s exhibition, White Termite, on at the Brundyn + Gonsalves gallery from now until 20 June, takes the behaviour of the termite and turns it into a monochromatic, mixed media installation that aims to engage with the audience by giving them the chance to interpret the experience in their own way and by their understanding of each component in relation to the whole.
Opening today at Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection is Paul Senyol’s first ever solo exhibition, which explores our shared experience of the human condition in relation to the phrase: “And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly man”. The gallery is also producing an artist’s book in collaboration with Senyol, which will be available for viewing and purchase at the time of the launch.
Contrary to continued perception, skateboarding is pretty mainstream. So to learn that skateboarding on public roads in Cape Town is now illegal took me by surprise. Little is being done to provide skateboarders with viable alternatives. The proceeds of an exhibition of illustrations by Gerhard Human, on at Clarke’s Bar & Dining Room from 26 April, will go towards the development of skate parks in South Africa.
Jakob Karte, a German photojournalist currently based in CapeTown, was at the Design Indaba last weekend and took some wonderful shots of the design extravaganza that once again confirms what we already know: innovative design is alive and well and thriving in South Africa. We share some of them with you in a three-part visual diary and will follow up with a full reports in next week’s Edits, along with more great images.
Radar, a group exhibition of illustration opens at Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection in Kloof Street on 14 March and runs until 31 March. Featuring artists Mieke van der Merwe, Jean de Wet, Bruce Mackay, Linsey Levendall and Michael Tymbios, the show will include once-off original prints as well as limited edition archival prints by each of the participating artists.
Infecting the City, from 6 - 10 March, is an innovative, out of the ordinary public festival that places provocative, innovative art in the communal spaces of the City’s Central Business District and celebrates a trove of diverse cultures, traditions and heritages in unexpectedly contagious ways. It’s intent is to reclaim public space for the public and allow for an unusual way of interacting with their city.
The countdown to the Design Indaba Expo 2012 has begun. From 2 to 4 March you’ll have the chance to enjoy the very best of South African design and creativity. Alongside the biggest names in design will be emerging young designers selected as part of the Emerging Creatives initiatives, which this year features Lucas Adams of Kraftisan, who designed our B-guided City Guide stands.
The fourth annual Cape Town International Tattoo Convention takes place from 27 to 29 January at the Pavilion Centre at the V&A Waterfront with some of the best local and international artists, exhibitions, parties, fantastic opre-convention parties n-floor entertainment and some great pre-convention parties. Entertainment highlights include a putt-putt course, acrobatics, burlesque and more.
Damn your eyes, damn your eyes and Further Fictions is a joint exhibition that explores the visual languages and conversations of two artists, Robyn Nesbitt and Natasha Norman, who live and work in two different cities. A conscious collaboration via email and the SA postal service is on at Commune1 from 29 November.
Salon91 presents Cara van der Westhuizen’s second solo exhibition titled “Fata Morgana: on longing and desire” during November 2011.
Stephen Inggs’ exhibition, Legacy, is on at Brundyn + Gonsalves (formely iArt) from 2 November. His first South African show in a few years promises to be engaging and beautiful. Inggs’ photographs of everyday objects are instilled with a distinct sense of tactile nostalgia. The exhibition also includes landscapes from his colour series, Typology of Place.
“The process of illustrating is for me a form of meditation, whereby I allow myself to be swept away, flowing with the patterns revealed. On closer look every entity is exquisitely patterned and connected through detailed patterns.”
Jeannie Indi’s exhibition opens at the Haas Collective gallery next Friday, 28 October at 6pm.
The last few months of any year are particularly busy: corporate and private entertaining, festive season events, office parties. Add in birthdays, family occasions and other events and it can all get out of hand in a hurry. The answer is to get help - only not from relatives or friends who mean well, but end up adding to the chaos and stress.
Get ready for a magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan, bedazzling, sensual spectacular at the BotRiviera Spring Weekend that includes, inter alia, horse riding, fly fishing, wine and olive oil tastings and blending, sumptuous meals, live music, pottery and art exhibitions, games, face painting, bike courses and much more besides
Don’t miss the final week of “Figuring Difference”, an exhibition featuring artists Nelson Makamo, Patsy Groll, Lucinda Mudge, Lara Feldman and Daniel Popper, currently on at salon91 art gallery in Kloof Street, while from 7 September, “REALM… an urban enquiry”, with works by Gabrielle Raaff and Lorenzo Nassimbeni,starts.