THE SOUTH AFRICAN ART TIMES

ART GUIDE FEBRUARY - MARCH 2008

Bathed
beauty. In Jeremy Wafer’s haunting Clouding
Over, the cloud’s lining hums and
dances ever so slightly, as

In Light the digital compression process

struggles to render distinct edges.
A blue sky is interrupted by a dark
cloud which gradually fills the screen

With their latest with its dank, shifting grey.

Motion and place becomes distorted,
show Florida Road’s and the frame of the image seems to
bulge and contract.
The Bank Gallery In contrast to Wafer’s piece,
Vaughn Sadie’s Pleasure of Feel
continues to shine. ing In Control overwhelms with visual
silence. A small bank of plug points
By Peter Machen and phone-line sockets is projected
from a slide projector, looking more
In these times of rolling darkness, like a painting than
the contents of Light Show at the a projection. The work’s title is
Bank Gallery are pointedly contem- engraved into the wall, intimating a
porary. In what seems like a curato- complacent relationship to a volatile
rial narrative, the show echoes the technological reality.
large scale projection of a television Greg Streak’s piece, Some Things
constantly being switched off which Are Better Left Unsaid, consists of a
dominated the gallery’s previous cross constructed out of energy sav-
show by Matthew Coombes. ing light bulbs. The cross correlates
perfectly to an actual statue of Christ
The Light Show, which was on the cross on the other side of the
conceived of as a sort of sampler road, on the grounds of a Catholic
for artists that will be showing in the Church. While the gallery is acces-
gallery through the year, gathers sible to the public, the church is less
together many of the psychological so, surrounded by security fencing.
concerns of our 21st century reality,
as we move into an increasingly James Webb’s work is a kind of
unsustainable future. embedded artwork, a Morse code
message emanating from one of the
It is to the credit of both the curators light fixtures. It is in a sense only par-
and the artists involved that the tially visible, with no gallery signage
show’s experiential whole transcends to tell the viewer that it is there. (The
the sum of its not insignificant parts. show’s curators have chosen not to
Curated by gallery owners Henrietta label any of the works in Light Show
Hamilton and Robert Fraser, with the with titles and artists for this show.
deftly multitalented Vaughn Sadie on Instead, all such information is con-
board as guest curator, Light Show tained in the catalogue, giving the
impresses as an example of the works autonomy from their creators
ascendant talent that the gallery will during the viewing experience).
be showing during 2008. Bronwen Vaughan-Evans provides
the only non-light-based piece, other
Dominating the show is Siemon than Allen’s The Birds. Her piece
Allen’s gorgeous appropriated work Vaughn Light, created from layers of
The Birds, which literally recon- lightness and darkness anchors the
structs the Hitchcock classic, in the show. On a long thin canvas, a street
process building endless layers of light is almost buried in the greyness
allusion. Made from a 16mm film that dominates the panel. A pair of
copy of Hitchcock’s 1962 thriller, Al- feet extend into the top of the image.
len has woven the reels of film into a The feet –belonging to Sadie – don’t
flat canvas, re-scaling the work with appear to be falling to earth. Instead
mathematical precision so that the they seem to be floating, away from
woven film occupies a similar scale the banality below, away from the
to the projected film. planet, towards the light.
In British artist Simon Jacque’s work
Storm, a series of electric storms is Finally, a work by Steven Hobbes,
shown on five small LCD screens A Point in space; containing all
which interrupt the darkness of the points, uses light and shadow as a
small space adjacent to the main medium in themselves, a delicately
gallery. Shot on a low-resolution constructed installation which cre-
camera-phone, there is no sound, ates fluidly crystaline abstractions
no thunder. The tiny camera is that fill the barred bank vault. The
Greg Streak’s piece, Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid, consists of a cross constructed out of energy saving light bulbs. The cross correlates perfectly to an work suggests real value, intangible
incapable or reproducing the com-
actual statue of Christ on the cross on the other side of the road, on the grounds of a Catholic Church. While the gallery is accessible to the public, the church is beauty, and the fact that, for some
plexity and fury of a thunderstorm,
less so, surrounded by security fencing. of us at least, an art gallery is the
resultingin a strange reductive digital
perfect replacement for a bank.
Page 2 February Art Events Guide South African Art Times. February 2008

When Anthropology, an American craft chain store with 100 outlets

throughout the U.S.A., placed an order for over
R100,000 with ceramic artist, John Bauer,
Lloyd Pollock decided to investigate.
Photos by Leah Walker
John Bauer lives on a drowsy street
in ultra-respectable, middle-income
suburbia. The neatly mown grass
pavements are the glory of this
house-proud neighbourhood, but
the pristine spick and span peters
out abruptly outside John’s gate
where weeds erupt in an
ungovernable thicket.

Lower Claremont favours self-

effacing whites and beiges, but
Bauer being Bauer, eschews such
restraint. His house and garden
walls blaze with defiant greens,
lavenders and ochre, and a coven
of contorted, earthenware beings,
like gnomes on speed, whoop it up
around the gate.
John welcomes me with the well-
bred grace that forms such a vivid
contrast with the wildness and
ferocity of his ceramic handiwork.
Inside bowls crowd every available
surface, swamping tabletops,
swarming over sofas, and cascad-
ing over the floor. Everywhere
there are choked ashtrays, dishes
scummed with the remnants of
the day before yesterday’s lunch,
socks, toast, underpants and
apple cores. Like a bag lady, I
cheerfully sink into the squalour,
turn on the tape-recorder and start
yet another interview.
John’s vehement affirmations of his
belief in ghosts, auras, magic
and miracles soon alerted me to his
lack of the usual protective
social armour. However it was only
when he announced that only
future, more evolved generations
would be capable of grasping his
artistic intentions, that his bowls
would grace the world’s greatest
museums, command stupendous
prices, and prompt intense
academic scrutiny, that I finally
understood that I was in the
presence of that loopy and outland-
ish phenomenon – the genuine
outsider artist.
John’s belief in himself and his gifts
verges on the fanatic, and his com-
mitment to the dream of ceramic
perfection is absolute. He
stakes his claim to fame on incised
porcelain bowls. These
catapult one into a fantasy world of
sickle moons and gingerbread
villages where mermaids, depraved
fish and androgynous winged
beings disport themselves amidst a
rain of stars. These celestial
shenanigans form an air-born fete
galante
for what the
dramatis personae
seek is love, and the quest for
love dominates the artist’s imagery
which is rooted entirely in his own
experience.
Love vanished from John’s life with
abrupt and brutal finality when
he was six, and his mother and
grandmother were killed by a
drunken driver. Thereafter he
became a latchkey child. No one
supplied affection and understand-
ing, and when his isolation was
compounded by dyslexia, emotion
froze over and he retreated into
himself.
“I lived so long in utter loneliness,
that I forgot what love was” says
John, “and it was only when I
started meeting girls as a teen
ager, that I rediscovered it.” ‘Love’
remains indissolubly associated
with the primal union between
mother and child,
and John’s search for it was a
search for some substitute for that
lost entwinement. That substitute
became ceramics which John
made from his twelfth year, partly
because this was the only activity
at which he felt he excelled, and
partly to remind him of his mother
and her feminine touch. The bowls
filled the yawning emotional
the motherless boy, and this ex-
plains the obsessional nature of
John’s enterprise. His rate of pro
void that opened up around
duction is frenzied. Working has
become a compulsive rite of
remembrance, and since 2002, he
has chalked up over 4,250 bowls.
The quaking forces buried beyond
the reach of consciousness,
erupt in an urgent gush of symboli-
cal images which flood John’s
mind, exercising an intolerable
pressure Lloyd Pollock
which is only relieved when he
recreates them on his bowls. The
results are not prettification
or embellishment, they are art: art
as therapy, redemption and
transcendence. Such creations
have nothing to do with good taste.
On the contrary they exude a raw-
ness and flagrancy that make them
brazenly other.
Dyslexia, an insurmountable detes-
tation of reading and a dogged
refusal to study at tertiary institu-
tions mercifully prevented this
“wild, untutored phoenix” from
undergoing the usual processes
of cultural indoctrination. The
artist’s salutary ignorance, his
passion for solitude and mania for
experiment enabled him to
achieve outstanding originality by
blurring gender, and shuffling
the human, the animal and the
divine in passionate and uncouth
images that remain untainted by
tradition, training or outside
influence.
Each bowl is a page in a diary that
forms an ongoing meditation
upon John’s life, his thoughts,
feelings, memories, fantasies and
daydreams. They reflect on past,
present and future, uncovering
why what went wrong, went wrong,
and why what went right,
went right, mediating his experience
and making it intelligible.
No other ceramist uses the medium
as an instrument of unflinching self-
scrutiny and analysis, and it is this
intimate personal dimension
that infuses his strange and anar-
chic creations with a rigorous
honesty and truth. John Bauer demonstrates his fantastical and functional flying bowls

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South African Art Times. February 2008
Carey spends an afternoon with Beezy Bailey and discovers chocolate flavoured
mint plants, the art of making beer chicken, and the magic of his studio.
The artist,
Beezy Bailey
A sizzling Friday afternoon finds
me sitting on Beezy Bailey’s patio
at his home on Kloof Nek, sipping
iced litchi juice and making small
talk as we look out at the city bowl
far below.
Beezy and his black female alter
ego, Joyce Ntobe, are preparing
for their upcoming exhibition at the
Everard Read Gallery in Joburg
from 14 – 29 February. Joyce is
making a comeback after 12 years
reportedly occupied by a nunnery
and AIDS orphans. The former
domestic worker made headlines
in 1992 when some of her works
were bought by the National
Gallery after entering them in the
prestigious Triennale competition.
Beezy also entered, but his works
were not chosen. The art world
was scandalised when he revealed
Joyce’s true identity in a political
statement on affirmative action.
“Being Blown Backwards into the
Future” will showcase the work
Beezy has done since his “Fallen
Angels and Other Dreams” exhibi-
tion in February last year. The
artworks explore issues relating
to the demise of the white South
Tea with Beezy
African male and are focused
around a central theme of fallen
angels. Joyce’s works, which
contrast strikingly with Beezy’s in
style and subject matter, deal with
the issue of inequality in South
Africa, exposing the contradictions,
paradoxes and ironies that make
the country what it is.
Beezy shows me some of the ex-
hibition pieces in his studio, which
is a light and wooden affair at the
bottom of his garden, just
Floods at Gugulethu - Oil and house paint on canvas
past the chocolate mint bushes he
persuades me to taste. Romulus
and Remus are rendered in bronze
and suckle the wolf in an African
take on Roman legend. Romulus
grows up to be the abandoned
white colonialist and kills Remus,
the modern African abandoned by
his traditional culture.
Joyce’s works seem to have been
created by a different artist entirely,
and Beezy nods agreement when
I tell him that it looks like he’s stor-
ing someone else’s work in
his studio. He laughs and tells me
February Art Events Guide
that Joyce frees him from himself,
allowing him to create art that
Beezy wouldn’t dare attempt. Her
new paintings are richly coloured
oil depictions of townships after a
bad flood, painted by Joyce from
photographs she took on location.
Beezy explains that the works
of Gerhard Richter inspired him
to experiment with working from
photographs, a taboo lingering
from his British art-school training
that took him 20 years to break.
When it comes to the process of
creating art, Beezy says that he is
lucky in that inspiration just comes
to him. “As soon as I’m in the stu-
dio I see things that I’ve got to do”,
he tells me. He works between 10
and lunchtime and again in the late
afternoons, when the natural light
in his studio is at its best and he’s
at his most creative. “Once I’m in
there I just go for it”, he says. “The
routine forces me to stick to my
work. When I was younger things
were much wilder.” He tells me
how he used to sit on the beach
and make art from driftwood, not
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following any working schedule. at 10am and 7pm
Beezy works on between five
Wednesday 20 February 2008
and 20 pieces at the same time, at 10am
“pollinating” them and flitting
between them as new ideas come
to him. He says that it takes “two
minutes and 25 years” to finish a
piece, explaining that sometimes
he churns out art at the speed
of light, but then goes back and
makes small improvements over
a period of months or even years.
He’s been known to finish an entire
exhibition’s work in two hours.
Curious, I ask Beezy what he
would have been had he not made
a career out of art. He thinks for
a moment, then laughs, “Insane.
I realized I wanted to be an artist
when I was very young”, he says,
“but I was nervous.” The stere-
otype of the struggling artist held
him back until one day in New
York, at the age of 21, he had Preview
lunch with Andy Warhol. “He really Friday 15 February 10am to 5pm
Saturday 16 February 10am to 5pm
liked my work and he encouraged
Sunday 17 February 10am to 5pm
me”, Beezy says, “and that was Venue
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chef of note. He gives me a lesson e-mail: ct@swelco.co.za
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in August.
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Select Gallery listings from around South Africa

Eastern Cape David Krut Art Resources
Sally Thompson Gallery KwaZulu-Natal Kizo 20 March 2008 – 2 April - Chinese
9 Feb - 1 March - 06:08 A partnership
10 February -1 March - The Magic Until 10 Feb - SEXPO 2008 ICC Arena Cultural Exchange
Port Elizabeth between David Krut Print Workshop
of Making - group ceramics show. Durban (Durban) Richard Scott, Wakaba
and Art Bank Johannesburg - six artists
Digby Hoets, Eugine Hön, Caroline Mutheki, Gavin Rain, Anthony Holmes, Goodman Gallery, Cape
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art were selected to create a series of
Viera Shutz, Peter Nthombeni , Ainsley Art Space - DBN Vanessa Berlein and Zephania Chuma 7 Feb - 1 March - All Smoke and Mir-
Museum monotypes.
Tailor, Vulisango Ndwandwa, Michelle Until 16 Feb - Micrographs - Deryck and Isiah Manzini rors - Diane Victor
Until 08 June - About-face Legg... and more. Healey 20 March – 20 April - Bongi Bhengu
Everard Read Gallery

16 February – 08 March - Forward and Collen Maswangayi iArt
Johannesburg
Until 13 April - Images of Mandela Bay: Standard Bank Gallery - Sarah Richards 21 Feb – 8 March - Five decades
14 February 2008 – 2 March - Being
Inner City - Gregory Kerr
blown backwards into the future
6 February-29 March - Intimate Rela-
tions - Marlene Dumas:
Western Cape

- Beezy Bailey & Joyce Ntobe KZNSA Gallery Irma Stern Museum
Free State 6 - 30 March - Zwelethu Mthethwa Cape Town
The Premises Main Gallery 5-29 March - Rebecca Townsend
- Children of a Lesser God
Bloemfontein Mark Erasmus -Viscosity - Precious- Glass Art
8 March - 4 May - Changing Worlds Until 10 Feb - KZNSA Members’ 34 Long
Show runs until 23 February Exhibition 12 Feb - 15 March - Promised Land
- Edoardo Villa 1947-2007” @ the
Oliewenhuis Art Museum Iziko South African National Gallery
Cradle of Human Kind: - Nirox 12 Feb - 9 March - Michael McGarry - Andrew McIlleron - Photography Ernest Cole: Chronicler In The House
Until 05 March - Messina/ Musina University of Johannesburg Arts Mezzanine Gallery
Sculpture Park
- Pieter Hugo - Photographs Centre Gallery Of Bondage
13 March -16 March Joburg Art Fair Until 10-Feb - KZNSA Members’ Art B Gallery The Sasol Wax Art Award 2007
6 – 27 February - Look at me : Exhibition Until 06 February - John Bauer
- The Sandton Convention Centre
“Women for Children” print portfolio Until 13 April - Work By Willie Bester
Gauteng 12 Feb - 9 March - Isis x Ceramics Until 30 March - The Daimlerchrysler
Nivea Gallery 13 Feb - 1 March Jaco Sieberhagen ,
Gallery on the Square
Warren Siebrits Modern & Contem- Award For South African Architecture
Johannesburg Until 27 Feb -Ceramics - Clive Sithole Until 10-Feb - KZNSA Members’ The Kings Tea. 13 February – 8 June - Dungamanzi /
porary Art Exhibition
Until 1 March - Prints Multiples and Stirring Waters: Tsonga And Shangaan
ABSA Gallery Gallery MOMO 12 Feb - 9 March - Mbekheni Mbili Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Art From Southern Africa
Until 22 February - Ruth Sacks & Photography Until 15 Feb - Greatest Hits 2007
14 Feb – 10 March - Mixed Media
Open 22 March – 4 May Standard
Numsa Makhubu - Sue Pam-Grant Durban Art Gallery Selected exhibition of graduate works Bank Young Artist For Visual Art 2007:
Pretoria 6 Feb - 30 March - KZN Matric Art 18 February- 07 March - Main Gallery- Pieter Hugo ‘Messina/Musina’
Afronova Modern and Contempo- Goodman Gallery Exhibition’ Jill Trappler, Long Gallery- Why Collect? New Acquisitions
rary Art Centurion Art Gallery 6 Feb - 30 March - ‘Little Traveller’ a Colleen Gericke - Artsstrip- Selvin
Until 9 Feb Alison Kearney,
Until 29 Feb - Antoinette Marais, Mar- Made By The Iziko Art Department,
Until 16 February - My New Voice Emily Stainer hearwarming show from the Woza November 2005–2006 . Romantic Childhood
- Gonçalo Mabunda chal Conradie, Marie Wentzel and Moya Project of the Hillcrest AIDS
16 Feb – 15 March - Walter Battiss
Louise Greyling - Group Show Iziko Summer School 2008
21 Feb – 15 March - 22 years of 16 Feb – 15 March - Africa and the Centre Trust Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art Iziko Summer School 2008: Muse-
Dance Umbrella - John Hogg - Photo World 14 Feb - middle of April ‘Then & Now’ Gallery ums, Climate Change And Africa’s
Pretoria Art Museum a collection of photographs curated by Until 01 March-
19 February - 11 May - Johann Louw Indigenous Heritage: 31 January - 2
Art Extra Gerard Sekoto Gallery, Alliance Paul Weinberg Lyndi Sales - TRANSIenT March 2008
Until 23 Feb - Trickster’s revenge - A Mid-career Retrospective
Francaise
PAM-Albert Werth Hall - Until March http://www.iziko.org.za/sang/c_ex.html
- Artists exhibiting: Carlos Aires, Alan 8 – 27 Feb Nomusa Makhubu - Bank Art Gallery Blank Projects
Alborough, Rotimi Fani-Kayodé, Nan- - Favourates from the Permanent Until 26 February - Light Show at Bank Until 29 Feb - Barend de Wet - White
Iso Eliphandliwe
Collection PAM-East Gallery - Until Joao Ferreira Fine Art
dipha Mntambo, Samson Mudzunga, Art Gallery Leading Durban Artists Elephants Until 1 March - Dorothee Kreutzfeldt
Michael MacGarry, Anthea Moys, March - Rorke’s Drift Tapestries and 28 Feb – 27 March - Aggregate
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Athi-Patra Ruga, Kathryn Smith Ceramics - select works by Paul Edmunds Cape Gallery
10 Feb - 13 April - Dis-Location- ReLo-
Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery
28th Feb – 29th March - Perfect Lov- cation - Leora Farber in collaboration 17 Feb – 8 March - Frederike Exhibition of Gallery Artists
ers - Group Show UNISA Art Gallery Pietermaritzburg Stokhuyzen -recent paintings
with Strangelove
Until 15 Feb - Final Year Multimedia
28th February- 19th March - There is
and 3rd Year Visual Art Student Lindy van Niekerk Art Gallery
Art on Paper Something in the Air in Prince Albert - Tatham Art Gallery Erdmann Contemporary /Photogra- Exhibition of Gallery Artists
Until 1 March - Genus - Exhibition Until 4 May - New Acquisition Exhib phers Gallery
Cuny Janssen - Opened by The Sean
Rosemarie Marriott Until 4 May - Edendale excels: an Until 1 March - Brent Meistre
O’Toole
Alice Art Gallery Roodepoort Michael Stevenson Contemporary
16th March - Spier Contemporary exhibition of four artists from Edendale. - Class____ Until 1 March - Intersections Inter-
David Brown Fine Art 15 – 17 February - Karen Hougaard The exhibition includes works by
exhibition
- Solo Exhibition sected David Goldblatt
13 February - 8th March - Michael Zondi, Gerard Bhengu, Everard Read Gallery - Cape Town
Anthony Harris - Paintings Obert Contemporary at Chickenman Mkhize and Siyabonga Michaelis Collection
Melrosearch Sikosana. 7 – 20 February - MJ Lourens Until 31 March - Is there Still Life
Until 14 Feb - Enamel shadow 6– 19 March - Donovan Ward Curated by Michael Godby
paintings - Peter Eastman

Whats up @ Alice Art in 2008?

February June September
15 Karin Hougaard exhibition grand opening with Andre Swartz 12 Glendine exhibition with the Parlotones 24-28 Portchie exhibition
16 Karin Hougaard poetry book launch with Steve Hofmeyr 25-29 Innibos
17 Open day with Karin Hougaard October
21-24 Homemakers expo July 1-4 Aardklop
24 New Signatures Exhibition 23 Este Mostert Exhibition
March 24-27 Vaal Homemakers Expo 30-2 Nov Good food and wine show
13 Liesel Brune & Derric van Rensburg exhib. with Matt Stern
21-29 KKNK August November
7-10 Decorex 6 Christmas market and Little Gems exhib. 217 Dryf Ave Ruimsig, Roodepoort
May 30-2 Sep Gariepfestival 19 Alice Art Gallery Annual Art Auction
1-4 Homex at Emporers Palace To RSVP for any of these events or for E-mail: aliceart@global.co.za
28 Munro exhibition with Jak de Priester enquiries you an reach us at 011 958 1392/076
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What if the World…

Until 23 Feb - Fresh meat Curated by
Robert Sloon Curated by robert sloon
(artheat) Until 23 feb 2008

Franschhoek

Gallery Grande Province
Drawn Thread - Paintings by
Jacqueline Crewe-Brown

Paarl

Hout Street Gallery
until 28 Feb - ‘Summer Salon’

Off the Wall Gallery
Until 02 March - Memory and Desire
- paintings and drawings by Pamela
Cockcroft- Lasserre
Sekoto, Gerard (1913 - 1993) "Woman in a Township Street". Oil on Board,
Somerset West 59.3 x 80.4cm. Signed "G Sekoto" (lower/right). Circa 1962/63

Bell-Roberts Lourensford
Until 31 March - The Ceramic Art of
SIGNIFICANT
Robert Hodgins

SOUTH AFRICAN
Stellenbosch INVESTMENT ART
Graham’s Fine Art Gallery boasts the finest selection
Dorpstraat Gallery of South African 20th century masters including:
Until 13 Feb Herman van Veen - wat Frans Oerder, Hugo Naudé, Bertha Everard- King, Pieter
gebeur / what happens Wenning, Nita Spilhaus, Pranas Domsaitis, Ruth Prowse,
15 Feb Strijdom van der Merwe Maggie Laubser, JH Pierneef, Irma Stern, WH Coetzer,
Cecil Higgs, Freida Lock, Maud Sumner, Wolf Kibel, Ruth
University of Stellenbosch Everard-Haden, Walter Battiss, Elsa Dziomba, Maurice
van Essche, Rosamund King Everard, Fred Page, Gregoire
Art Gallery
Boonzaier, Alexis Preller, François Krige, Gerard Sekoto,
Until 09 Feb Visualizing Sound Lyn Eleanor Esmonde-White, Robert Hodgins, Piet van
Smuts Heerden, Stanley Pinker, Cecil Skotnes, Erik Laubscher,
Peter Clarke, Christo Coetzee, Helmut Starcke, Henry
Sasol Art Museum Symonds, Simon Stone, Karel Nel.
The heartbeat of an etcher Titia Ballot
Shop 46, Broadacres Lifestyle

SMAC Art Gallery Centre, Cnr. Cedar & Valley

Roads, Broadacres, Fourways.
Until 24 Feb - Portraits Johann Graham Britz 083 605 5000
Louw and Sanell Aggenbach

Joburg Art Fair

Sarah Keys 084 568 5639
27 Feb – 25 May - Revisions+ works Gallery 011 465 9192

13 – 16 March- Portraits - Johann

Louw and Sanell Aggenbach at the
Joburg Art Fair

Knysna
13th - 16 March 2008 www.grahamsfineartgallery.co.za

Knysna Contemporary www.joburgartfair.co.za

Until 12 Feb - Anthony Harris

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Hout Street Gallery

David and Gail Zetler
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AROUND THE GALLERIES

Leora Farber’Dis-Location/Re-Location will be showing at Johannesburg One of the works from The Kings Tea by Jaco Sieberhagen will be on show Paul Edmunds, “Sieve” (detail), 2005, silkscreen and cut paper, (Photo: Dave
Art Gallery until 13 April 2008. Title of work: Aloerosa: Transplant (2006-7) at The ArtB Gallery 13 Feb - 1 March Southwood) Pauls exhibition entitled Aggregate:Selected Works 2000-2008
will be on show at Durbans Bank Gallery 28 February 27 March 2008

TRUE/STORY: Solo exhibition by Michael Macgarry presents a series of Lyndi Sales’s Shoe entitled TRANSIenT will run until Monument from the series Drawings of Mass Destruction, 2007, Diane
artifacts, sculptures and props included in his recent films and 1 March at The Bell- Roberts Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town Victor - All Smoke and Mirrors until 1 March 2008 Goodman Gallery, CT
photographs. 12 February - 9 March at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban

A work for Robert Hodgins exhibition entitled The Ceramic Art of Robert Ed Young - Its not easy - one of a body of works showing at the Mark Erasmus infront of his new work from his show Viscosity
Hodgins-A retrospective to be seen at the Bell - Roberts Gallery, Haywood Project Space, South Bank Centre, London Show runs until 23 February at The Premises Gallery
Lourensford, Show runs until 31 March

Until 10 Feb - SEXPO 2008 ICC Arena (Durban) Richard Jake Aikman, ‘ICU III,’ 2008, From the Robert Carlos Aires’s work on The Trickster Show at Barent de Wet cast, showing at
Scott, Wakaba Mutheki, Gavin Rain, Anthony Holmes, Sloon Curated Fresh Meat at WhatiftheWorld Art Extra Gallery, Jhb Blank Projects entitled White Elephants
Vanessa Berlein and Zephania Chuma and Isiah Manzini Gallery, CT