Dark Side of the Moon at UCA Gallery
dark side of the moon 1 July – 24 July 2009 In dark side of the moon at UCA Gallery the selected artists all have a quality of exploring and experimenting, be it visually or conceptually, by using the traditional mediums in a new and exciting way, pushing the boundaries of the imagination and giving us new insight as to what art can potentially be or should be, perhaps, to test the limits of the imagination. Featured artists will be Christiaan Diedericks, Julia Mary Grey, Wonder, Albert Coertse, Shani Nel, Conor Ralphs, Hannalie Taute and Theo Kleynhans.. The exhibition will open on Wednesday 1 July and close on 24 July 2009. Gallery Hours: 10am – 5pm Mon – Fri, 9am – 1pm Sat 46 Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town. T: 021 447 4132 E: info@ucagallery.co.za W: www.ucagallery.co.za A group exhibition of artists who choose to use traditional media for expression in inventive and innovative ways, ‘exploring the unknown’ so to speak. The artists featured will be Christiaan Diedericks, Julia Mary Grey, Wonder, Albert Coertse, Shani Nel, Conor Ralphs, Hannalie Taute and Theo Kleynhans. Because of the fact that we never get to see the ‘dark side of the moon’ as the moon’s rate of rotation has become (almost) synchronized with its orbit, it has become synonymous with the unknown and unexplored places of ones own imagination. The unknown factor exists and permeates everything but which cannot be explained and which is veiled from conventional conscious knowledge. Certain artists in the past and present have always found it necessary to explore this ‘other’, unknown/sub-conscious side of themselves and their imagination, and in so doing have created works that can be playful, fantastic or dark and ominous. Being freed from the necessity of depicting the world in a traditional naturalistic way by new forms of media like photography and film, artists have been able to explore and offer new forms/shapes and imaginary landscapes and in so doing find new ways of expressing the subconscious world (which is another symbolic link/association that we have given to the moon – the dream world) and fantasy worlds. In dark side of the moon the selected artists all have this quality of exploring and experimenting, be it visually or conceptually, by using the traditional mediums in a new and exciting way, pushing the boundaries of the imagination and giving us new insight as to what art can potentially be or should be, perhaps, to test the limits of the imagination. The exhibition will open Wednesday evening at 6pm on the 1st of July and close on the 24th of July...
Twenty Artist | Twenty Portraits @ UCA Gallery
The brand new UCA Gallery in OBS in Cape Town is launching with a brave group exhibit featuring work from both established and emerging local artists entitled Twenty Artists |Twenty Portraits. The artworks in this salon style summer show range from traditional to more conceptual approaches to the genre across a range of media. Sounds interesting… go go go. Whereas some of the portraits (such as Lionel Smit’s Chris Divided) are of potentially recognisable, yet probably unknown, individuals, the identities of the subjects in many of the other works have remained deliberately obscured or secondary to metaphorical emphasis and societal commentary. Gabrielle Raaff’s delicate, lyrical watercolour portraits Returning 1-4, and the veiled and blindfolded figures in Christopher Slack’s Virgin in Paradise and Julia Teale’s Annunciation are of particular interest in this regard. Though many of the works are figurative paintings of individual subjects, Kim Gurney’s Disinheritance, depicting a series of 24 chromosomes related to a hereditary disease, and Robyn Cedras’s sculptural installation Just as useless as the box it came in, mark less traditional approaches to the tension between individual and societal identity. Other artists include Norman O’Flynn, Jacqui Stecher, Wonder, Rebecca Townsend, Varenka Paschke and Christian Toujours.Work by students from Julia Teale’s Spencer Street Studios in Saltriver will also be on show. Twenty Artists|Twenty Portraits will open on Wednesday 17 December at 6pm and close on the Saturday 24 January 2009. UCA Gallery 46 Lower Main road, Observatory Tel: (021) 447 4132 Email: info@ucagallery.co.za www.ucagallery.co.za Hours: Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 9am –...
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