Exhibitions still showing in Joburg
JOBURG - As Joburg's art galleries reopen, City Buzz compiled a list of a few exhibitions which one should make a point to go and see.
Rise and Fall of Apartheid
The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life is an award-winning exhibition which was brought to Joburg in Febraury last year. The exhibition is made up of hundreds of photographs, artworks, films, videos, documents, posters and periodicals, all aimed to create an enormous, comprehensive historical overview of the varying responses to apartheid in pictures and words. The exhibition at MuseumAfrica will run until April.
Details: MuseuMAfricA, 121 Bree St (Mary Fitzgerald Sq), Newtown or contact 011 833 5624 or visit museumafrica@joburg.org.za
Green Screen
The exhibition of photographs and paintings by Janet Solomon is intended to set up associations between reality and artifice, death and life. In this exhibition, Solomon compares the ‘green screen’ technique to the way in which museums traditionally display groups of people or animals in dioramas. This is Solomon’s fourth solo show and is her submission for a Master’s Degree through the University of the Witwatersrand. The exhibition will run until 31 January.
Details: University of Witwatersrand, Jorissen Street, Braamfontein or contact 011 717 4700 or visit www.origins.org.za
William Kentridge – The refusal of time
A five-channel video installation with performances by Dada Masilo made in collaboration with composer Philip Miller and film-maker Catherine Meyburgh. This exhibition is currently running at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, and is one of three exhibitions which the artist is taking part in, in Johannesburg this month. His other exhibitions are presented at Goodman Gallery and Wits Art Museum.
Details: Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), King George St, Joubert Park, City Centre or contact 011 725 3180.
Edson Chagas – Found not taken / Tipo passe
Angolan artist Edson Chagas collected discarded objects in London and would move them before photographing them. By taking the objects out of their context and photographing them against a carefully chosen background, Chagas was able to turn these mundane items into abstract icons. In Tipo Passe, he takes a similar approach, staging portraits of models wearing traditional African masks. By taking these objects, which possess immense ritual meanings, out of their usual context, he invites the viewer to question the reality of what they are really looking at. These exhibitions will run until 6 February at the Stevenson Gallery.
Details: Stevenson Gallery, 62 Juta St, Braamfontein or contact 011 403 1055.
