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Press Release
Exibitions Diary April 1999
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Isintu/ Ceremony, Identity and Community
A South-South Dialogue
Dates: currently until 6 June 1999
Place: SA National Gallery
These two exhibitions mark the first formal exchange and co-operation
between the South African National Gallery, Robben Island Museum, the
Mayibuye Centre and an Australian institution, the Flinders Art Museum
in
Adelaide.
Isintu is the first exhibition at the Sang to be solely curated by black
persons: Tumelo Mosaka and Zayd Minty, taking us a step forward in
altering
museum practise in South Africa. It is also the first group exhibition
which comprises only black artists and consists of works by 6 South
African
artists. They are Bernadette Searle from Cape Town, Usha Prajapant from
Pretoria, Nati Khanyile from Durban, Ayanda Mje from Port Elizabeth,
Ezekial Budeli and Sandile Zulu both from Johannesburg. The word
"Isintu"
stems from an Nguni root and can be interpreted as a collective African
perspective on life.
Managed by the Flinders Art Museum, the Australian component, Ceremony,
Identity and Community, consists of 39 works by 16 Aboriginal Australian
artists, a video programme and an educational programme.
The project explores cultural identity and issues relating to the
contested terms of "blackness" and "indigenous" in South Africa and
seeks
to create a dialogue between indigenous persons of Australia and black
South Africans around issues of ceremony, identity and community.
contact details
For more information on the exhibition please contact Joe Dolby, Tel:
021 -
465 1628
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Structures
Photographs by David Goldblatt
Dates : currently until 20 June 1999
Place : SA National Gallery
The culmination of fifteen-years of photography, research and writing by
acclaimed photographer David Goldblatt, this exhibition examines the
relationship between built structures and the forces that shaped our
society from 1652 - 1990.
Goldblatt refers to the period as that of Baasskap or White domination
and
through the exhibition creates an illuminating, thought provoking and
deeply moving portrait of South Africa's physical and metaphorical
landscape.
Goldblatt is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work
features
in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the National
Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
and
our own South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
"Structures" has been shown in at the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
and
the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam.
Rare Opportunity to Purchase Signed Goldblatt Prints
A single David Goldblatt photographic print sells for $1500.00 in the
USA.
Goldblatt has donated a limited number of signed digital prints to the
Gallery. These signed Goldblatt prints are now on sale in the Sang
Gallery Shop for only R 350.00 (+VAT)
This is a unique opportunity for members of the South African public to
add
his work to their private collections and to contribute to the SAVE THE
SANG FUND at the same time. Save the Sang Funds are used to promote the
Gallery's education programmes, and to sustain museological functions.
contact details
To order signed Goldblatt prints please call the Gallery Shop on Tel:
(021)
465 1628
For exhibition information contact Kathy Grundlingh, Tel: (021) 465
1628;
For details on the publication, South Africa The Structure of Things
Then,
please contact Lesley Joubert, tel: (021) 595-440
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VIDEO VIEWS
Dates: currently until 27 June 1999
Place: Room 5, SA National Gallery
Selections of Video Art are currently being projected at the SA National
Gallery.
Videos are screened continuously from Tuesdays to Sundays, 10:00 till
17:00.
In April:
WEIGHING... and WANTING by William Kentridge
30 March - 18 April 1999
The seventh in a series of films which chronicle the history of
Kentridge's
recurring character, Soho Eckstein. Like his first opera, Il Ritorno
d'Ulisse, which will be staged in Grahamstown this year, this is the
story
of another homecoming or reconciliation. Kentridge's international
reputation was established with his inclusion in "Documenta X". A solo
showing of his latest video, Stereoscope, will be seen in the Project
Room
of the Museum of Modern Art, New York in April and he is featured on the
cover of the latest Art in America, the first South African ever to
receive
such an accolade.
Abandon Your Culture by Malcolm Payne
20 April - 2 May 1999
The building and breaking down of a wall in Malcolm Payne's "Abandon
Your
Culture" (1997), becomes a metaphor for the construction, reconstruction
and deconstruction of notions of culture and language.
contact details
For more information please contact Emma Bedford, Tel: 021 - 465 1628
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Zabuya Emadlelweni/
The Cattle are Coming Home
Dates: currently until 2 May 1999
Place: SA National Gallery
An exhibition which focuses on the significance of cattle in our
history,
culture and above all, visual art. On show are exquisite examples of
beadwork, paintings with pastoral themes and works by contemporary
artists
who concern themselves with current land issues and restitution claims.
contact details
For more information please contact Carol Kaufmann, Tel: 021 - 465 1628
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Mute Testimonies
Dates: ongoing
Place: SA National Gallery
An exhibition featuring a range of works from the SANG Permanent
Collection, which represent some aspects of recent South African
history.
The works are extremely varied, expressing the diversity of historical
and
cultural perspectives that make up contemporary South Africa.
contact details
For more information please contact Hayden Proud, Tel: 021 - 465 1628
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NATALE LABIA MUSEUM
· 192 Main Road, Muizenberg, 7951
Tel: 021-7884106 · Fax 021-7883908
· e-mail: n...@gem.co.za
press release
Opening at the Natale Labia Museum in April:
SA Studio Ceramics: A Selection from the 1950s
Dates: Opening, Saturday 3 April until 27 June
Place: Natale Labia Museum, Main Road Muizenberg
Admission: free
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, local ceramic studios set up in
competition with foreign ceramic producers, particularly the English
potteries.
Ceramics produced in the Kalahariware studio, Drostdyware studio and
Crescent Potteries will be on show for the very first time.
Items manufactured in these studios include dinner services, ashtrays,
jugs, platters, candelabra, egg-cups, bowls, sculptures and wall
plaques.
Some wares, in addition to being decorative, were even used as
substitutes
for 'paintings'.
In the 1950's flower arranging was still viewed as an important skill
for
middle- and upper-class women in South Africa. A variety of vases,
designed to compliment floral arrangements and once found in every
modern
home, will be on show.
An exhibition catalogue is available.
contact details
For more information contact Patty Kolbe, Tel: 021-788 4106/7;
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