south african art times: february 08 gallery guide

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FEBRUARY - MARCH 2008

Bathed In Light

With their latest show Florida Road’s The Bank Gallery continues to shine.By Peter Machen

In these times of rolling darkness, the contents of Light Show at the Bank Gallery are pointedly contem-porary. In what seems like a curato-rial narrative, the show echoes the large scale projection of a television constantly being switched off which dominated the gallery’s previous show by Matthew Coombes.

The Light Show, which was conceived of as a sort of sampler for artists that will be showing in the gallery through the year, gathers together many of the psychological concerns of our 21st century reality, as we move into an increasingly unsustainable future.

It is to the credit of both the curators and the artists involved that the show’s experiential whole transcends the sum of its not insignificant parts. Curated by gallery owners Henrietta Hamilton and Robert Fraser, with the deftly multitalented Vaughn Sadie on board as guest curator, Light Show impresses as an example of the ascendant talent that the gallery will be showing during 2008.

Dominating the show is Siemon Allen’s gorgeous appropriated work The Birds, which literally recon-structs the Hitchcock classic, in the process building endless layers of allusion. Made from a 16mm film copy of Hitchcock’s 1962 thriller, Al-len has woven the reels of film into a flat canvas, re-scaling the work with mathematical precision so that the woven film occupies a similar scale to the projected film.In British artist Simon Jacque’s work Storm, a series of electric storms is shown on five small LCD screens which interrupt the darkness of the small space adjacent to the main gallery. Shot on a low-resolution camera-phone, there is no sound, no thunder. The tiny camera is incapable or reproducing the com-plexity and fury of a thunderstorm, resultingin a strange reductive digital

beauty. In Jeremy Wafer’s haunting Clouding Over, the cloud’s lining hums and dances ever so slightly, as the digital compression process struggles to render distinct edges. A blue sky is interrupted by a dark cloud which gradually fills the screen with its dank, shifting grey. Motion and place becomes distorted, and the frame of the image seems to bulge and contract.In contrast to Wafer’s piece, Vaughn Sadie’s Pleasure of Feeling In Control overwhelms with visual silence. A small bank of plug points and phone-line sockets is projected from a slide projector, looking more like a painting than a projection. The work’s title is engraved into the wall, intimating a complacent relationship to a volatile technological reality.Greg Streak’s piece, Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid, consists of a cross constructed out of energy sav-ing light bulbs. The cross correlates perfectly to an 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 acces-sible to the public, the church is less so, surrounded by security fencing.

James Webb’s work is a kind of embedded artwork, a Morse code message emanating from one of the light fixtures. It is in a sense only par-tially visible, with no gallery signage to tell the viewer that it is there. (The show’s curators have chosen not to label any of the works in Light Show with titles and artists for this show. Instead, all such information is con-tained in the catalogue, giving the works autonomy from their creators during the viewing experience). Bronwen Vaughan-Evans provides the only non-light-based piece, other than Allen’s The Birds. Her piece Vaughn Light, created from layers of lightness and darkness anchors the show. On a long thin canvas, a street light is almost buried in the greyness that dominates the panel. A pair of feet extend into the top of the image. The feet –belonging to Sadie – don’t appear to be falling to earth. Instead they seem to be floating, away from the banality below, away from the planet, towards the light.

Finally, a work by Steven Hobbes, A Point in space; containing all points, uses light and shadow as a medium in themselves, a delicately constructed installation which cre-ates fluidly crystaline abstractions that fill the barred bank vault. The work suggests real value, intangible beauty, and the fact that, for some of us at least, an art gallery is the perfect replacement for a bank.

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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 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 less so, surrounded by security fencing.

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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 teenager, 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 emotionalthe 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 hasbecome a compulsive rite of remembrance, and since 2002, hehas 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 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.

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

Pro Helvetia Cape Town is inviting applications from professional artists in all disciplines for grants to support local art projects involving regional exchange within the SADC countries.

Application deadline for funding for new projects is on 1 March 2008.

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John Bauer demonstrates his fantastical and functional flying bowls

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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

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

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

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

following any working schedule.

Beezy works on between five and 20 pieces at the same time, “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 lunch with Andy Warhol. “He really liked my work and he encouraged me”, Beezy says, “and that was the moment I decided I didn’t want to do anything but art for the rest of my life.” And so Beezy became the local artist with the controversial black alter ego we know today. He’s also a full-time father, and it turns out, a chef of note. He gives me a lesson in the art of making “beer chicken”, a recent specialty of his, before I leave. 2008 is going to be a busy year, he tells me. He’s currently working on a 4m high fallen angel that unfortunately won’t be ready in time for the exhibition, then will be organizing an “Art for AIDS” auction in London before his first US exhibition, which will happen in August.

Tea with Beezy 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.

Floods at Gugulethu - Oil and house paint on canvas

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February15 Karin Hougaard exhibition grand opening with Andre Swartz16 Karin Hougaard poetry book launch with Steve Hofmeyr17 Open day with Karin Hougaard21-24 Homemakers expo

March13 Liesel Brune & Derric van Rensburg exhib. with Matt Stern21-29 KKNK

May1-4 Homex at Emporers Palace28 Munro exhibition with Jak de Priester29-1 June Rooms on view

June12 Glendine exhibition with the Parlotones25-29 Innibos

July24 New Signatures Exhibition 24-27 Vaal Homemakers Expo

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October1-4 Aardklop23 Este Mostert Exhibition30-2 Nov Good food and wine show

November6 Christmas market and Little Gems exhib.19 Alice Art Gallery Annual Art Auction

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Eastern Cape Port Elizabeth Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Until 08 June - About-face Until 13 April - Images of Mandela Bay: Inner City

Free State Bloemfontein Oliewenhuis Art Museum Until 05 March - Messina/ Musina - Pieter Hugo - Photographs Gauteng Johannesburg ABSA Gallery Until 22 February - Ruth Sacks & Numsa Makhubu

Afronova Modern and Contempo-rary Art Until 16 February - My New Voice - Gonçalo Mabunda 21 Feb – 15 March - 22 years of Dance Umbrella - John Hogg - Photo

Art Extra Until 23 Feb - Trickster’s revenge - Artists exhibiting: Carlos Aires, Alan Alborough, Rotimi Fani-Kayodé, Nan-dipha Mntambo, Samson Mudzunga, Michael MacGarry, Anthea Moys, Athi-Patra Ruga, Kathryn Smith 28th Feb – 29th March - Perfect Lov-ers - Group Show

Art on Paper Until 1 March - Genus - Rosemarie Marriott David Brown Fine Art 13 February - 8th March - Anthony Harris - Paintings

David Krut Art Resources 9 Feb - 1 March - 06:08 A partnership between David Krut Print Workshop and Art Bank Johannesburg - six artists were selected to create a series of monotypes.

Everard Read Gallery Johannesburg 14 February 2008 – 2 March - Being blown backwards into the future - Beezy Bailey & Joyce Ntobe6 - 30 March - Zwelethu Mthethwa - Children of a Lesser God8 March - 4 May - Changing Worlds - Edoardo Villa 1947-2007” @ the Cradle of Human Kind: - Nirox Sculpture Park13 March -16 March Joburg Art Fair - The Sandton Convention Centre

Gallery on the Square Until 27 Feb -Ceramics - Clive Sithole

Gallery MOMO 14 Feb – 10 March - Mixed Media - Sue Pam-Grant

Goodman Gallery Until 9 Feb Alison Kearney, Emily Stainer 16 Feb – 15 March - Walter Battiss 16 Feb – 15 March - Africa and the World

Gerard Sekoto Gallery, Alliance Francaise 8 – 27 Feb Nomusa Makhubu - Iso Eliphandliwe

Johannesburg Art Gallery 10 Feb - 13 April - Dis-Location- ReLo-cation - Leora Farber in collaboration with Strangelove 28th February- 19th March - There is Something in the Air in Prince Albert - Cuny Janssen - Opened by The Sean O’Toole16th March - Spier Contemporary exhibition

Obert Contemporary at Melrosearch Until 14 Feb - Enamel shadow paintings - Peter Eastman

Sally Thompson Gallery 10 February -1 March - The Magic of Making - group ceramics show. Digby Hoets, Eugine Hön, Caroline Viera Shutz, Peter Nthombeni , Ainsley Tailor, Vulisango Ndwandwa, Michelle Legg... and more.

Standard Bank Gallery 6 February-29 March - Intimate Rela-tions - Marlene Dumas:

The Premises Mark Erasmus -ViscosityShow runs until 23 February University of Johannesburg Arts Centre Gallery 6 – 27 February - Look at me : “Women for Children” print portfolio Warren Siebrits Modern & Contem-porary Art Until 1 March - Prints Multiples and Photography Pretoria

Centurion Art Gallery Until 29 Feb - Antoinette Marais, Mar-chal Conradie, Marie Wentzel and Louise Greyling - Group Show

Pretoria Art Museum 19 February - 11 May - Johann Louw - A Mid-career Retrospective PAM-Albert Werth Hall - Until March - Favourates from the Permanent Collection PAM-East Gallery - Until March - Rorke’s Drift Tapestries and Ceramics

UNISA Art Gallery Until 15 Feb - Final Year Multimedia and 3rd Year Visual Art Student Exhibition Alice Art Gallery Roodepoort 15 – 17 February - Karen Hougaard - Solo Exhibition

KwaZulu-Natal

Durban

Art Space - DBN Until 16 Feb - Micrographs - Deryck Healey 16 February – 08 March - Forward - Sarah Richards

KZNSA Gallery Main Gallery Until 10 Feb - KZNSA Members’ Exhibition 12 Feb - 9 March - Michael McGarry Mezzanine Gallery Until 10-Feb - KZNSA Members’ Exhibition 12 Feb - 9 March - Isis x Nivea Gallery Until 10-Feb - KZNSA Members’ Exhibition 12 Feb - 9 March - Mbekheni Mbili

Durban Art Gallery 6 Feb - 30 March - KZN Matric Art Exhibition’ 6 Feb - 30 March - ‘Little Traveller’ a hearwarming show from the Woza Moya Project of the Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust14 Feb - middle of April ‘Then & Now’ a collection of photographs curated by Paul Weinberg

Bank Art Gallery Until 26 February - Light Show at Bank Art Gallery Leading Durban Artists 28 Feb – 27 March - Aggregate - select works by Paul Edmunds

Pietermaritzburg Tatham Art Gallery Until 4 May - New Acquisition Exhib Until 4 May - Edendale excels: an exhibition of four artists from Edendale. The exhibition includes works by Michael Zondi, Gerard Bhengu, Chickenman Mkhize and Siyabonga Sikosana.

Kizo Until 10 Feb - SEXPO 2008 ICC Arena (Durban) Richard Scott, Wakaba Mutheki, Gavin Rain, Anthony Holmes, Vanessa Berlein and Zephania Chuma and Isiah Manzini 20 March – 20 April - Bongi Bhengu and Collen Maswangayi

Western Cape Cape Town

34 Long 12 Feb - 15 March - Promised Land - Andrew McIlleron - Photography

Art B GalleryUntil 06 February - John Bauer Ceramics13 Feb - 1 March Jaco Sieberhagen , The Kings Tea.

Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Until 15 Feb - Greatest Hits 2007 Selected exhibition of graduate works 18 February- 07 March - Main Gallery- Jill Trappler, Long Gallery- Colleen Gericke - Artsstrip- Selvin November

Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery Until 01 March- Lyndi Sales - TRANSIenT

Blank Projects Until 29 Feb - Barend de Wet - White Elephants

Cape Gallery 17 Feb – 8 March - Frederike Stokhuyzen -recent paintings

Erdmann Contemporary /Photogra-phers Gallery Until 1 March - Brent Meistre - Class____

Everard Read Gallery - Cape Town 7 – 20 February - MJ Lourens6– 19 March - Donovan Ward

20 March 2008 – 2 April - Chinese Cultural Exchange

Goodman Gallery, Cape 7 Feb - 1 March - All Smoke and Mir-rors - Diane Victor iArt21 Feb – 8 March - Five decades - Gregory Kerr

Irma Stern Museum 5-29 March - Rebecca Townsend - Precious- Glass Art

Iziko South African National GalleryErnest Cole: Chronicler In The House Of BondageThe Sasol Wax Art Award 2007Until 13 April - Work By Willie BesterUntil 30 March - The Daimlerchrysler Award For South African Architecture13 February – 8 June - Dungamanzi / Stirring Waters: Tsonga And Shangaan Art From Southern AfricaOpen 22 March – 4 May Standard Bank Young Artist For Visual Art 2007: Pieter Hugo ‘Messina/Musina’Why Collect? New Acquisitions Made By The Iziko Art Department, 2005–2006 . Romantic ChildhoodIziko Summer School 2008 Iziko Summer School 2008: Muse-ums, Climate Change And Africa’s Indigenous Heritage: 31 January - 2 March 2008http://www.iziko.org.za/sang/c_ex.html

Joao Ferreira Fine ArtUntil 1 March - Dorothee Kreutzfeldt

Johans Borman Fine Art Gallery Exhibition of Gallery Artists

Lindy van Niekerk Art Gallery Exhibition of Gallery Artists

Michael Stevenson Contemporary Until 1 March - Intersections Inter-sected David Goldblatt

Michaelis Collection Until 31 March - Is there Still Life Curated by Michael Godby

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Sekoto, Gerard (1913 - 1993) "Woman in a Township Street". Oil on Board,59.3 x 80.4cm. Signed "G Sekoto" (lower/right). Circa 1962/63

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February Art Events Guide

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

Somerset West

Bell-Roberts Lourensford Until 31 March - The Ceramic Art of Robert Hodgins Stellenbosch Dorpstraat Gallery Until 13 Feb Herman van Veen - wat gebeur / what happens 15 Feb Strijdom van der Merwe

University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery Until 09 Feb Visualizing Sound Lyn Smuts Sasol Art Museum The heartbeat of an etcher Titia Ballot

SMAC Art Gallery Until 24 Feb - Portraits Johann Louw and Sanell Aggenbach 27 Feb – 25 May - Revisions+ works 13 – 16 March- Portraits - Johann Louw and Sanell Aggenbach at the Joburg Art Fair

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Knysna Contemporary Until 12 Feb - Anthony Harris

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Pieter van der Westhuizen

Hout Street GalleryDavid and Gail Zetler

270 Main Street, Paarl, 7646. Phone + 27 (0) 21 872 5030 Fax + 27 (0) 21 872 7133 E-mail: [email protected] www.houtstreetgallery.co.za Artwork: Solomon Siko: The red motor car

Lynette ten Krooden

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co.za, Web Page: www.art.co.za

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Dawn in the mist320 x 320mm

Goldleaf and acrylic on paper

Leora Farber’Dis-Location/Re-Location will be showing at Johannesburg Art Gallery until 13 April 2008. Title of work: Aloerosa: Transplant (2006-7)

One of the works from The Kings Tea by Jaco Sieberhagen will be on show at The ArtB Gallery 13 Feb - 1 March

Paul Edmunds, “Sieve” (detail), 2005, silkscreen and cut paper, (Photo: Dave 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 artifacts, sculptures and props included in his recent films and photographs. 12 February - 9 March at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban

Lyndi Sales’s Shoe entitled TRANSIenT will run until 1 March at The Bell- Roberts Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town

Monument from the series Drawings of Mass Destruction, 2007, Diane Victor - All Smoke and Mirrors until 1 March 2008 Goodman Gallery, CT

A work for Robert Hodgins exhibition entitled The Ceramic Art of Robert Hodgins-A retrospective to be seen at the Bell - Roberts Gallery, Lourensford, Show runs until 31 March

Ed Young - Its not easy - one of a body of works showing at the Haywood Project Space, South Bank Centre, London

Mark Erasmus infront of his new work from his show Viscosity Show runs until 23 February at The Premises Gallery

Until 10 Feb - SEXPO 2008 ICC Arena (Durban) Richard Scott, Wakaba Mutheki, Gavin Rain, Anthony Holmes, Vanessa Berlein and Zephania Chuma and Isiah Manzini

Jake Aikman, ‘ICU III,’ 2008, From the Robert Sloon Curated Fresh Meat at WhatiftheWorld Gallery, CT

Carlos Aires’s work on The Trickster Show at Art Extra Gallery, Jhb

Barent de Wet cast, showing at Blank Projects entitled White Elephants

AROUND THE GALLERIES

south african art times: february 08 gallery guide

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