South Africans can experience 50 years of unbridled creativity during the Henri Matisse -Rhythm and Meaning exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery until September 17. It includes several key works from the artist’s oeuvre. Continue reading
Visual arts
Through Positive Eyes exhibition documents the reality of living with HIV
Justice Edwin Cameron (guest speaker), Carol Brown (co-curator – Durban), David Gere (co-curator – Los Angeles) at the opening of the exhibition. Photo: Harry Lock
The exhibition, Through Positive Eyes, which features over 100 photographs, sculptural works, and live storytelling, documenting the realities of individuals living with HIV across the globe, can be viewed at the Durban Art Gallery. It coincides with AIDS 2016: The International AIDS Conference in Durban. Continue reading
The KZNSA Gallery hosts the Ceramics Southern Africa KZN regional showcase exhibition
Echoes In Clay is the title of the Ceramics Southern Africa KZN Regional Showcase exhibition, which is being staged at the KZNSA Gallery in Bulwer Road, Glenwood, Durban until July 17. Continue reading
Loading Gallery in Durban plays host to two new exhibitions
TWO new exhibitions can be viewed at the Loading Bay Gallery, 15 Station Drive, Durban until July 24. Continue reading
Durban’s Umcebo Design creates art for Aids
Durban Actor Nhlakanipho Manqele encourages groups of young people to participate in The Butterfly Project – one of the fringe art events of AIDS2016 which encourages youth to envisage an AIDS free generation. Nhlakanipho Manqele plays all-knowing Owl in KickstArt’s adaptation of Winnie the Pooh over the July school holidays at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on UKZN campus. Pic: Publicity Matters
Respected Durban art makers, Umcebo Design, is involved in two participative art projects as part of AIDS2016 – Light of Hope, an enormous chandelier with individually-beaded leaves which pays tribute to people touched by HIV/Aids; and a youth project envisioning an AIDS free-generation, dubbed The Butterfly Project.
Both projects involve community participation and both are made using recycled plastics – family-sized yoghurt tubs and ice cream containers. Continue reading
Exhibition at artSPACE durban questions the Western notion of desiring permanence
Extended until Thursday, July 28.
OPENING at artSPACE durban at 3 Millar Road, Durban, on Saturday, July 9 at 11 am is the exhibition ‘Seeking Permanence In A Transient World’, featuring the work of Samantha Boock. Continue reading
Moses Tladi Unearthed at the National Art Festival
Iziko Museums of South Africa is hosting the first major South African exhibition of the work by Moses Tladi (1903–1959) at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown until July 10, after its debut at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.
The exhibition at the Albany History Museum, entitled Moses Tladi Unearthed, will provide the visitor with an exceptional opportunity to view the work of this enigmatic artist. Cited as the first black artist to have exhibited formally in South Africa, Tladi developed a reputation as a realist landscape painter. Continue reading
Ardmore ceramics heading to Kimberley for a colourful exhibition
Somandla Ntshalintshali sculpted this elegant Oryx Vase, which features bold geometric and floral designs painted by his long-time collaborator, Jabu Nene. It is one of the works being exhibited at the William Humphreys Gallery in Kimberley. Photo: Ardmore Ceramic Art
ARDMORE Ceramic Art will be showcasing its colourful work at the ‘In Full Colour’ – David Walters and Friends Exhibition at the William Humphreys Art Gallery in Cullinan Crescent, Kimberley.
The exhibition opens on July 13 and runs until August 12. Continue reading
Explore the work of Walter Battiss at the Wits Arts Museum
Walter Battiss – Mantis Man, c1970.
For over 35 years, well-known art collector and philanthropist, Jack Ginsberg, has assembled an extraordinary collection of more than 700 artworks, books and ephemera by esteemed South African artist Walter Battiss.
This collection will be shown at Wits Art Museum for the first time in an exhibition, curated by Warren Siebrits. It opens on Tuesday, July 5 and ends on October 9. Continue reading
All About Oils – a painting retreat with Diane Erasmus
‘ALL About Oils’ – a three day painting retreat with Diane Erasmus takes place from Sunday, June 19 to Tuesday, June 21 at the Zulu-Lulu Art Room at the Caladdi B&B in the KZN Midlands. Continue reading
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