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Art Exhibitions

Winter Wonderland Exhibition

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren June 22, 2011
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From the 13th of July this year until the 6th of August, Salon91, Cape Town, will be transformed into a magical ‘Winter Wonderland’. The Salon walls will be filled with a large selection of artworks, some by this country’s finest young illustrators, as well as a handful of pieces by budding stars on the international [...]

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Rendezvous Focus Original Lithography – Back from Paris

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren November 1, 2010
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In partnership with French master lithographer Elisabeth Pons, the RENDEZVOUS Art Project brought a body of lithographical works from the extensive Pons’ Collection (Paris, France) to South Africa in 2009 and presented these works together with lithographs by outstanding contemporary South African and French artists. These included works by William Kentridge, Judith Mason, Diane Victor, [...]

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Rendezvous Fokus op Oorspronklike Litografieë – Back from Paris

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren November 1, 2010
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Die RENDEZVOUS-kunsprojek, in vennootskap met die Franse meester-litografis Elisabet PONS het in 2009 ‘n groot deel van die werke van die uitgebreide PONS-versameling (Parys-Frankryk) na Suid-Afrika gebring en die werke met litografieë deur uitstaande kontemporêre Suid-Afrikaanse en Franse kunstenaars aangebied. Hierdie werke sluit kunswerke in van William Kentridge, Judith Mason, Diane Victor, Jacques Vileglé, Peter [...]

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Unrequited Love: Under a sickle moon – Salon91

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren October 29, 2010
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A contemporary take on the classic theme of unrequited love – key to countless examples of classical literature and musical theatre, such as William Shakespeare’s play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, Gabriel García Márquez’ ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’, as well as operas like ‘La Traviata’ and ‘Aida’ [...]

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Santam’s Child Art at Oliewenhuis, Bloemfontein

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren October 21, 2010
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The traveling exhibition of the renowned Santam Child Art project is coming to Bloemfontein in October and promises to showcase original and spontaneous works of art. The exhibition will run at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum from 21-29 October 2010. “Art is a universal language, which for centuries has communicated across cultural barriers and been at [...]

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Colours of the Sun – Jocelyn Jacobson Cole at Raw Vision Gallery

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren October 5, 2010
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Jocelyn Jacobson Cole was brought up in Zimbabwe. She lived for many years in both Botswana and South Africa. She has also traveled extensively throughout most of the Southern African countries including Namibia, Mozambique and Swaziland. It is through these travels that she found her inspiration to be that of Africa. Her enduring love for [...]

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Clare Menck, Twintig Jaar – uitstalling te Oliewenhuis

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren October 4, 2010
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Twintig jaar is ‘n terugblik oor die afgelope 20 jaar van skilder Clare Menck se loopbaan. Tans woon sy aan die Weskus (Kaap). Die werk sluit in tradisionele genres soos stillewens, landskappe met huise en figure in, maar deurlopend is die intieme kyk op hierdie alledaagse temas telkens verrassend anders en eie aan haar skilderstem. [...]

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The Long Way Home by Maria van Rooyen at Salon91

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren October 2, 2010
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Polokwane-based artist, Maria van Rooyen, will present her first solo exhibition in Cape Town in October 2010. The Long Way Home, hosted at Salon 91 on Kloof Street in the heart of the City, will see her present a new body of work that explores themes of homesickness, travel, nostalgia and desire for far-away places. [...]

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BAASA: A Passion for Plants at the Tatham Art Gallery

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren October 1, 2010
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The Botanical Artists Association of Southern Africa (BAASA) was founded in Cape Town in 1997 by like minded people interested in Botanical Art by practicing artists. There are 3 branches: Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. Shirley Sherlock, an important collector of contemporary Botanical Art, has helped to stimulate interest by her purchases around the world [...]

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Urban Africa – David Adjaye’s photographic journey

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren September 17, 2010
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One of the leading architects of his generation, David Adjaye has stepped out of his regular line of work to photograph and document key cities in Africa as part of an ongoing project to study new patterns of urbanism. This collection of photographs is a personal quest through the eyes of an architect to address [...]

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Civilized Violence by Jaco van den Heever at Artspace

by Gerhi Janse van Vuuren June 24, 2010
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Artist Jaco van den Heever exhibits a new body of work in a solo exhibition entitled Civilized Violence at Artspace gallery in Rosebank, Johannesburg. In Civilized Violence Jaco questions the ideological framework of our contemporary society through a series of large scale drawings, rendered with exquisite detail. The exhibition was opened on 23 June 2010 [...]

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