Visual Heritage Exhibition – Pretoria Art Museum

dale — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:41:08 +0000

This exhibition of artworks from the museum’s permanent collection aims to look at the contributions of certain artists to the heritage and history of Pretoria as the administrative capital of the country. The focus is on the contemporary messages of their artworks as signifiers of art history and the visual dialogue between past and present traditions. The theme of this exhibition is the decontextualisation of artworks to discover their value as sources of inspiration for the future.

Artists include – Alexic Preller, Anton van Wouw, Armando Baldinelli, Brandt Drury, David Brown, Ezrom Legae, Gordon Fraud, Guy du Toit, Jacques Fuller, Judith Mason, Kenneth Bakker, Lenie Harley, Ronald Mylchreest and Victor Sibya.

Pretoria Art Museum
Cnr Wessels and Schoeman Streets
Arcadia
Pretoria

Enquiries: Tanith Mackenzie – 072 822 8883
Museum hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10h00 – 17h00

The exhibition runs from 2 – 28 September

Abstract South African Art from the Isolation Years: Part 2 @ SMAC Gallery

dale — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:51:23 +0000

The exhibition entitled Abstract South African Art from the Isolation Years: Part 2 is the second in a series of exhibitions presented by the Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary art gallery (smac) to focus exclusively on the generation of post-war avant-garde artists who consciously embraced the modernist idiom and produced art of an abstract or non-figurative nature during the sixties, seventies and eighties.

Some of the artists included in this year’s collection are Lionel Abrahams, Bill Ainslie, Kenneth Bakker, Charl Buchner, Walter Battis, Bettie Ciliers-Barnard, Joan Claire, Christo Coetzee, Nel Erasmus, Barbara Burry, George Boys, Nils Burwitz, Charles Gassner, Cecil Higgs, Erik Laubscher, Dumisani Mabaso, Louis Maqhubela, Dirk Meerkotter, Georgina Ormiston, Douglas Portway, Fred Schimmel, Larry Scully, Cecily Sash, Henry Symonds, Gunther van Der Reis, Edoardo Villa, Gordon Vorster and Anna Vorster.

Also forming part of this exhibition is a unique collection of Ernst Mancoba’s (1904-2002) early paintings from Kattinge, Denmark.

The first exhibition hosted last year contained more than 100 artworks and was a commercial success. The second exhibition has been widely anticipated and the demand for this type of work is clearly growing.
SMAC maintains that these artist should form an integral part of the current revisioning process in South African art and their work must be reassessed and revalued in market terms.

Abstract South African Art from the Isolation Years: Part 2 opens on 18 June and will continue until the end of August.

Artvault » Kenneth Bakker

Visual Heritage Exhibition – Pretoria Art Museum

Abstract South African Art from the Isolation Years: Part 2 @ SMAC Gallery