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"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."

"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."

Daar 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.

Tell 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.

"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."

In 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).

The 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.

"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.

Die 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.

"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."

Vernon Head reflects on After nature, a collaborative exhibition by artists Lien Botha and Jaco van Schalkwyk, currently on show at Barnard Gallery.

"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.

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. The opening text is by Jean Dreyer. This exhibition opened on 10 September at the Gallery @ Glen Carlou (on the Klapmuts Road).  

When it became clear that Eskom’s electricity availability for the kiln in which he bakes his works is unreliable, Dirks built a clay kiln with inspection holes to regulate the very high temperature (between 1 000 and 1 200 ºC). Unfortunately, the recent heavy rains severely damaged this clay kiln.

Several of her most compelling pieces are based on Yasuke, an African Samurai who becomes central to ruler Nobung’s inner circle and thus the first – and only – black Samurai in 16th century Japan.

Die uitstalling sluit ’n verskeidenheid werke van glas, keramiek, houtskool, fotografie, skilderye en etse deur plaaslike en internasionale kunstenaars in.

Alle belangstellendes word hartlik uitgenooi na aanlyn kunslesings deur Alex Duffey wat handel oor onder andere die lewe en werk van Suid-Afrikaanse skilders. Die jongste lesing is nou beskibaar.

Alle belangstellendes word hartlik uitgenooi na die nuwe lesingreeks deur Alex Duffey wat handel oor onder andere die lewe en werk van Suid-Afrikaanse skilders. Die eerste tema van die reeks is "Jacob Hendrik Pierneef 1886–1957: Rasionele landskapskilder by uitstek".

Jed Kritzinger en Trudy Oosthuizen, twee uiteenlopende kunstenaars, stal eersdaags uit by die Breytenbach-galery in Wellington. Die openingsgeleentheid is op Saterdagoggend, 1 April 2023.

"Die onderwerp van die uitstalling is informele diamantdelwers, ook bekend as zama zamas, in die Kimberley-omgewing. Daar is tans ’n baie groot aantal myners wat óf nuwe gebiede ontgin óf uitgewerkte mynhope weer deurgaan op soek na diamante."