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Exhibition

Journey

28 Nov – 30 Jan 2010

David Krut Projects is delighted to present Gail Behrmann’s Journey, an exhibition of paintings, drawings and artist’s books. Though she has participated in several group shows, Journey is Behrmann’s first solo exhibition since 1993.
Behrmann remarks on the work for this exhibition: ‘It began in 2003 as an    introspective journey dealing [...]

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Crossing

David Krut Projects is delighted to present Virginia MacKenny—Crossing
29 October
18h00 for 18h30
The exhibition will be opened by Prof. Jeremy Wafer
The works in this exhibition invite unusual visual associations across their rich terrain, making surprising connections between high-end technology and the makeshift.
Dominated by colour fields of blue, the paintings offer a fluid terrain on which large [...]

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Colbert Mashile: Experience and the Scar

20th October 2009 by Jacqueline

running at iArt Gallery, 2 – 28 October, 2009
text by Jacqueline Nurse, taken from iArt Exhibitions

Colbert Mashile has been heralded as a contemporary African surrealist of sorts. His imagery has developed over the years into a sophisticated language of symbols and characters that are, although often almost recognisable, drawn completely from journeys into deep imagination. [...]

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The Family of Man

 
Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen’s monumental exhibition, reproduces all of the 503 images that Steichen described as “a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout [...]

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Swoon

When the 27-year-old Brooklyn street artist Swoon had her first one-person gallery exhibition at New York’s Deitch Projects in 2005, the area surrounding the gallery was so overrun with fans and friends that neither cars nor pedestrians could pass through. Reviews in all of the major New York papers, and even national news sources like [...]

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The Dinner Party: Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago’s international acclaimed installation The Dinner Party is a monumental work of art conceived as a symbolic historyof women in Western civilization. Strategically countering the traditional erasure of women’s achievements, this epic work honors 1038 iconic, mythical, archetypal and historical women.

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Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The museum of Modern Art

This marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers.

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In Search of Lost Time

A WALKABOUT WITH THE ARTIST
SAT 18 JULY at 11am
This exhibition closes 23 JULY 2009
PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER
Journeys are the midwives of thought.
Alain de Botton
In Search of Lost Time comprises drawings, paintings, mezzotints and a series of monotypes that together track the artist’s recollection of a train journey from Cape Town to Johannesburg. Extending her [...]

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HangART-7: Air and Art

HangArt-7:  Air and Art
Edition 6: Turbulence: South African Art
The sixth exhibition in the now two years-old HangART-7 art programme presents contemporary artists from South Africa. Nine artists, three women and six men, have been invited to Salzburg by Roger van Wyk, the Cape Town curator of the exhibition, to show their sculptures, objects, installations and [...]

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Conrad Botes – Cain and Abel

Conrad Botes’ exhibition, titled ‘Cain and Abel’, is a reflection on the origins of violence, a return to the very first tale of murder as related in the Bible and Qu’ran, as if to grapple with the notion of aggression itself.
The story was translated into a gritty black and white comic published in Bitterkomix [...]

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