Catch Meshac Gaba at the JAG
Wonderful Benin artist Meshac Gaba will be exhibiting at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (aka JAG) from the 7th November 2007 through to the 31st January 2008. The public are invited to join Meshac for a walkabout of the exhibition on Wednesday at 2pm – Go go go! Date: Wednesday 7 November 2007 Venue: Johannesburg Art Gallery Time: 14:00 m e s c h a c g a b a Born in Cotonou, Benin, 1961 Lives and works in the Netherlands and Benin EDUCATION 1996-7 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 Tresses, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa 2006 Tresses, inIVA, London, UK Défilé de perruques, Paris, France Glue Me Peace, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway 2005 Museum of Contemporary African Art: Library of the Museum, BiblioNova, Geleen, Netherlands Glue Me Peace, Tate Modern, London, UK Le Pain Migrateur, Artra Gallery, Milan, Italy Meschac Gaba: Tresses, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA Peace Maker, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2004 Peace Maker, Ernest G Welch School of Art & Design, Gallery of the Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA 2003 Atlantique, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2002 Museum of Contemporary African Art: Library of the Museum, Falaki Gallery, American University of Cairo, Egypt Museum of Contemporary African Art: Museum Shop for Sale and Museum Living Room for Sale, Artra Gallery, Milan and Genoa, Italy Museum of Contemporary African Art: Music Room, SBK (Stichting Beeldende Kunst) Tramremise, Amsterdam, Netherlands Museum of Contemporary African Art: Living Room of the Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 2001 Museum of Contemporary African Art: Marriage Room, Inova, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Museum of Contemporary African Art: Library of the Museum, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands Der Inforaum/The Info-room, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland 2000 Museum of Contemporary African Art: Game Room, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium Museum of Contemporary African Art: Game Room, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Spielregeln/Rules of the Game, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany 1999 Vente en gros et detaille, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Museum of Contemporary African Art: Summer Collection, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands Museum of Contemporary African Art: Game Room, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon, France Museum of Contemporary African Art: Museum Restaurant, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1998 Missing Links/Museum of Contemporary African Art: Draft Room, Praterinsel, Munich, Germany Museum of Contemporary African Art, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands Museum of Contemporary African Art: Architecture of the Museum, Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Meschac Gaba, SBK knsm-eiland, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1997 Moneta Exotica. Oorspronkelijk geld uit de hele wereld/Museum of Contemporary African Art: Draft Room, Rijksmuseum Het Koninklijk Penningkabinet, Leiden, Netherlands Bazar Bizar, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1995 Palace of the President of Benin, Pour la...
Impossible Monsters in Craighall
We’re always delighted to hear about a fresh gallery space opening in Jozi… the Jan Smuts Art Strip gets elongated as we welcome the spanking new “Arts Extra” opening next Wednesday in Craighall. The piping hot exhibition entitled “Impossible Monsters” looks to feature a slab of contemporary artists – we look forward to something edgy and visionary… heaven knows we’re in need of some disruption to the lazy end of the year. You’re invited so go go go. Art Extra is a contemporary art gallery opening in Johannesburg South Africa on 7 November 2007 at 6pm with a curated group show Impossible Monsters. Location – 373 Jan Smuts Ave, Craighall, Johannesburg. Map/Directions – go to http://www.artextra.co.za/ OR email info@artextra.co.za and we will send you a map. For any other queries please call David Brodie +27 (0)82 552...
Do not miss Kudzanai at the Obert!
You can count on the Obert gallery in Melrose Arch to give you cutting edge, visionary African artists. DO NOT MISS the expo of one of the artworlds rising golden boys, exiled Zimbabwean Kudzanai Chiurai. He’s in his mid twenties with a brilliant future ahead, get to the Obert before the 30 September. “graceland” is chiurai’s highly anticipated third solo exhibition and follows his acclaimed sell-out exhibitions “the revolution will be televised (2004)” and “y propaganda (2005)” and his participation in the dakar biennale in 2006. chiurai is an innovative and controversial young artist who has been banned from his home country of zimbabwe for his politically inspired caricatures of president robert mugabe. reminiscent of basquiat, chiurai’s mixed media works are intricately layered with stenciled characters, poetry and graffiti. his works have recently been procured by top private and public collectors including bhp billiton in london. this exhibition will consist of nine new, variously scaled mixed media works that explore pertinent issues related to mass media, inner city rejuvenation and xenophobia. More on Kudzanai: born in 1981 in zimbabwe, kudzanai chiurai is an internationally acclaimed young artist now living and working in south africa. he was the first black student to graduate with a BA (fine art) from the university of pretoria. regarded as part of the “born free” generation in zimbabwe because he was born one year after the country’s independence from rhodesia, chiurai’s early work focused on the political, economic and social strife in his homeland. seminal works like “presidential wallpaper” depicted zimbabwean president robert mugabe as a sell-out and led to chiurai’s exile from zimbabwe. chiurai’s large mixed media works now tackle some of the most pertinent issues facing southern africa such as xenophobia, displacement and black empowerment. his paintings confront viewers with the psychological and physical experience of inner-city johannesburg, the continent’s most cosmopolitan melting pot where thousands of exiles, refugees and asylum-seekers battle for survival alongside the never-ending swell of newly urbanized south africans. the actuality of these environs is reinforced by chiurai’s use of photographic transfer. boldly stenciled figures and anonymous text provide running commentary, leading viewers on a journey through his intricately painted turn-of-the century buildings, bustling streets and congested transit...
Samson Mnisi at the Line Gallery Troyeville
The Line Gallery Presents “Rituals of Past and Present” – A solo Exhibition by internationally acclaimed Samson Mnisi, a collection of works depicting the artists experiences over the past two decades, brought to you by the Troyeville Arts Initiative. Opening Saturday 22 September 2007, 6pm 6 Roberts Avenue (Commissioner St Ext.) Kensington Info/RSVP: 082 452 1790 Gallery Hours: Wednesdays -Sundays 10 – 4 Exhibition closes Saturday 27th October...
Canonball Press opening at David Krut tonight
Check out one of our favourite art spaces in Jozi, the visionary David Krut gallery. It’s small but packed with awesome art, books and really friendly curators. Pop in on your way home on Jan Smuts, it’ll take you 5 minutes to visit and you’ll have got your arty fill! Cannonball Press is a New York based woodblock collaborative whose gritty, underground images have made Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston the indisputable kings of scruffy-pirate black-and-white hillbilly printmaking. Cannonball Press has just returned from the Oppikoppi music festival where they participated in the visual art component and an exhibition on their work will open this Thursday, 16 August, at 18:00 at David Krut Projects. While in South Africa they also hosted a woodblock workshop with artists, including Wilma Cruise, Mary Sibande, Lawrence Lemoaona, Bruce Backhouse and Bronwen Findlay. Cannonball Press: New York to Johannesburg will include a collaborative work with the aforementioned artists, as well as an installation and works on paper and canvas. For more on the exhibition, see...
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