Master-ful ART at the SUBSTATION at WITS
Two MA Fine Students Cobi Labuschagne and Mary Wafer are back at WITS to finish off their degrees… They’re inviting you to check out their work at the WITS SUBSTATION.
Represent found out some more about them from Mary Wafer:
Who are you ý Mary wafer and Cobi labuschagne? – MA fine art students.
Where have you been for the last few years? Ive been living in c…
openhagen for the last 2.5 years, where I still live half the time. Cobi has been in
london, and cape town.
Why did you decide to do your masters now? Wanted a way to spend some time in Joburg because its my home and my practice is based in a South African
context. It is therefore important for me to spend some time here and paint, and of course finish my bloody degree! (ED: yes didnt want to mention u and I were at varsity together 8 years back 🙂 )
How is UJ treating you?Actually I am at WITS, which is great. Its incredible
to come back to university after so many years, and realize how much time and freedom students have. (lucky buggers)
What inspires this exhibition? It is really a crit, to get some feedback from lecturers, other students and public.
Are any of the works for sale>? If so ý how much (range)>? All works are for sale. The substation is part of the university and does not opperate commercially. However if someone likes any paintings they should contact either me or Cobi. Most of the works will be between 6 and ten thousand rand.
How do you describe your work? My paintings are lonely landscapes, with bridges. Cobis work is lonely interior spaces.
What can patrons expect? A glass of wine and conversation, some paintings by up and coming yound artists.
Where is the substation? The substation is opposite the Wits theatre, Jorrisen Street entrance. Open to the public of course.
WITS SCHOOL OF ARTS
5 – 12 May 2005
11h00 – 14h00
Entrance in Jorrisen st
Contact MARY or COBI
A Statement from Mary:
I am an artist living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa and Copenhagen, Denmark. I am currently registered at the University of the Witwatersrand for a Master’s Degree in Fine Art.
My work explores issues of exclusion and marginality in relation to notions of space and place, particularly in relation to national transport routes and related facilities. I am working with ideas around edges, borders, and spatial liminality and differing perceptions of space/time realities. Through paintings of alienating and peripheral structures, such as freeway margins and bridges, focusing on the architectures of transport and mobility, I explore ideas of structural marginality and exclusion in a contemporary South African context. My paintings are very much about creating a deeply evocative sense of place that is distinctly local. The series of paintings I am working on currently are images of freeways, petrol stations, bridges and related structures that are so strikingly bleak in the South African landscape.
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