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Art columns, interviews and notices
’n Kursus vir Suid-Afrikaanse illustreerders by die Breytenbach Galery: ’n onderhoud met Mia Oosthuizen
2024-03-18"Die illustreerder se visuele teks gee lewe aan woorde wat die jong kind nog nie alles verstaan nie, aan gebeure en emosies waarmee hulle nog kennis maak."
’n Kursus vir Suid-Afrikaanse illustreerders by die Breytenbach Galery: ’n onderhoud met Elizabeth Gunter
2024-03-14"Visuele taal, soos dié van illustrasie, word onderskei van gesproke of geskrewe taal, maar dit ontspring vanuit dieselfde bron en vervul dieselfde behoeftes as woordetaal."
Persverklaring: Illustrasiekursus by die Breytenbach Galery op Wellington
2024-03-08Gemotiveer deur die feit dat daar ruimte is vir heelwat meer illustreerders – veral in SA – wat die boek-, storie- en boekmaakproses ken, word die eerste omvattende en onafhanklike Illustrasiekursus hierdie jaar in Suid-Afrika aangebied. Die kursus begin Saterdag 6 April 2024.
Mirror, a solo exhibition by Adele van Heerden at 131 A Gallery: an interview
2024-02-23"The title, Mirror, refers to the water’s surface as a physical mirror reflecting the surrounding elements, be it the sky, the weather, rock, or architectural structures. This mirror, when clear, also reveals the hidden worlds beneath the water."
Uitnodiging: Boom, Bomer, Boomste | Breytenbach-galery, 17 Februarie 2024
2024-02-14Boom Bomer Boomste open op Saterdag 17 Februarie om 11:00 by die Breytenbach-galery. Met Dave Pepler as gaspreker en kunswerke deur Varenka Paschke, Gustav Bester, Estelle Marais, Johan Swart, Nanette Ranger, Heinz Modler, Susan Grundling, Jacques Dhont, Sharle Matthews, Zonia Scheffer, Susan Bloemhof, Desirée Malan, Estelle Louw, Zach Mukwira en Kobus Coetzee.
Marlene Dumas skenk portret van Elisabeth Eybers aan Wits-kunsmuseum
2024-02-12Marlene Dumas het haar portret van Elisabeth Eybers (1915–2007) aan die Wits-kunsmuseum (WAM) se permanente versameling geskenk. Menán van Heerden gesels met Ena Jansen oor Elisabeth Eybers en die skenking.
Linosnee: ’n persoonlike reis
2024-01-22"Linosnee as kunstegniek het sy voordele en nadele. Een voordeel is dat dit besonderse beelde en effekte kan gee. Om halftone te skep, is moeilik."
artwords: existential notes
2023-11-29"I wasn’t prepared for what I would find at the exhibition, which is like stepping into a poem. The gallery is a page, the walls are the line, and I – I am the eye that flits from word to word, that lingers."
artwords: Collage text | Text collage
2023-11-29"When text is written in ink, and clay writes as words, the collaboration between Benjamin Coutouvidis and Katherine Glenday forms a collage of sentences in tones of red and green."
Persverklaring: ’n Dubbeldoorvoorreg by die Breytenbach Galery
2023-11-02Daar is Saterdag 4 November 2023 ’n dubbeldoorvoorreg by die Breytenbach Galery. Die bekroonde Woordkunstenaar Chris van Niekerk gaan gedigte van Breyten Breytenbach voorlees, terwyl luisteraars sy skilderye vir Oulap se Rooi maak (ook mos) mooi kan besigtig.
artwords ‒ The grid that folds: I can’t go back because someone else lives there now
2023-11-01Tell Me Nicely (Please), That You Are Leaving Again forms part of the group exhibition artwords on text and image at the Gallery at Glen Carlou. It can be viewed along with a selection of other works by Maia (Levan) Lehrer-Sacks until 5 November.
artwords – "Text creates movement in stillness": A conversation between Kadie Salmon and Klara du Plessis
2023-10-31"Incipit. Scree. Explicit. was first exhibited at Artexte, the archive, research centre and residency programme already mentioned. It’s nice to think that it’s moved into a gallery space now, as part of the artwords exhibition at Glen Carlou – from a textual to a visual context."
artwords – Text as sound: A zigzag of theory and practice
2023-10-31In the recording studio, text transforms into sound, and poetry is reshaped as voice. Klara du Plessis reflects on both the theoretical foundation and the making of a sound and video installation, Incipit. Scree. Explicit., produced with Kadie Salmon and on display at artwords (Gallery @ Glen Carlou).
artwords – on memory and loss
2023-10-30The wildfire that tore across Table Mountain and on to UCT’s campus destroyed not only the physical archive of materials and records, but also aspects of historical memory. The object makes visible and tangible the loss of a library, representing not only UCT’s Jagger Library but also other archives, where materials and objects have been lost forever, and, in this case, where numbers (Dewey Decimal Classification) embody a larger set of meanings.
artwords – Plot: Summary – Jeannette Unite’s geo-seam bar-code mineral paintings
2023-10-09"Plot" is the main title of three of Jeannette Unite’s art works currently on view at artwords, a group exhibition on text and image at Gallery @ Glen Carlou until 5 November. The works are subtitled Geological deep time, Carbon measures, and Admission of guilt legislation. "Plot" is also the title of her recent major show at the Iziko National Museum in Cape Town.
artwords – Omstrede terrein: drie skilders
2023-10-01Die twee olieskilderye op doek, Bellini, skilder, Herr S en Swart & pienk dispuut, asook nog vier ander werke van Ingrid Winterbach, vorm deel van die groepuitstalling artwords by die Glen Carlou Galery, waar dit besigtig kan word tot 5 November.
artwords: UT PICTURA POESIS – Kunsten in gesprek
2023-09-22"Voor deze notitie op vraag van Jean Dreyer heb ik ervoor gekozen de intrigerende 'intermedial gap' tussen woord en beeld kort aandacht te geven. In mijn onderzoeksgebied, de letterkundige neerlandistiek, wordt nogal wat onderzoek naar intermedialiteit ondernomen. Ik word geboeid door semantische en poëticale relaties tussen schilderkunst en poëzie."
After nature by Lien Botha and Jaco van Schalkwyk: "An interconnected offering"
2023-09-20Vernon Head reflects on After nature, a collaborative exhibition by artists Lien Botha and Jaco van Schalkwyk, currently on show at Barnard Gallery.
artwords: a word for words – an opening address
2023-09-14"The title of this exhibition – artwords – invites us to consider the meeting of two modalities of representation: the interchange between the visual and the textual, between image and text, between language and object". This is a blog series in dialogue with artwords, a group exhibition on text and art. Written contributions – posted in the forthcoming weeks on this LitNet platform – offer conceptual perspectives on the exhibition, and engage with the process and product of featured artworks. This exhibition opened on 10 September at the Gallery @ Glen Carlou (on the Klapmuts Road). Gerhard Marx delivered the opening address.
artwords: gloss of a script
2023-09-14This is a blog series in dialogue with artwords, a group exhibition on text and art. Written contributions – posted in the forthcoming weeks on this LitNet platform – offer conceptual perspectives on the exhibition, and engage with the process and product of featured artworks. The opening text is by Jean Dreyer. This exhibition opened on 10 September at the Gallery @ Glen Carlou (on the Klapmuts Road).