I suppose so many shows open towards the end of the month because pay
day is just around the corner and hope springs eternal in the breasts of the
galleries.
On Monday, photographer Tracey Derrick was one of three artists opening atthe AVA. “One in Nine – my Year as a Statistic’ is the documentation of her
experience in fighting breast cancer. Her weapons against the disease were
wigs, hats, and finally a triumphant tattoo on her body where her breast once
was.
Tracey Derrick
Across the street at Worldart, Ayanda Mabulu was showing his barbed
paintings of satirical social commentary on ‘Un-mute my tongue’.
Ayanda Mabulu
On Tuesday, the Michaelis Gallery was packed for the opening of Andrew Putter’s year long project as a Gipco fellow with his ‘Sketch Assembly’. Working with 30 ‘apprentices’ he unpicked and reconstituted the genre of Dutch paintings known as “Merry Company’ in order to revisit history and
impart to the group the nature of constructing a series of artworks. The documentation of the process is exhibited in the minutest detail.
Opening crowd at ‘Sketch Asembly’
"Sketch Assembly" - it’s in the detail
On Thursday, the Goodman Gallery launched an upbeat magazine-style catalogue by Kudzanai Chirui, entitled Black President . Works on paper by Kudzi lined the walls, – and in the darkened gallery space Chimurenga editor Ntone Edjabe was the dj
Andy and Claire Baronowski with Odidi at the Goodman
And down at the Michael Stevenson, it’s aluta continua as Jo Ractliffe exhibits her extraordinary black and white photographs, taken on a series of arduous journeys to the interior of Angola, evoking the war torn landscape in images of beauty and forlorn desolation.
Also in the space, Simon Gush is showing an elegant and eloquent four screen video entitled 4 for Four: A speculative montage for David Oistrakh and Sergei Prokofiev and Claire van Blerk and Kyle Morland surpise by
constructing an elevator in the side gallery.
Emma Bedford and Jo Ractliffe
That was the week that was.
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