January 14, 2005
By Tammy O'Reilly
ART galleries around the city are kicking off 2005 with a mixture of exhibitions including the works of lauded South African artists, debut artists, and thought provoking collaborations.
Penny Siopis
One of South Africa's most influential contemporary artists, Penelope Siopis, exhibits a handful of works that have emerged from her 30-year career at the Goodman Gallery.
Siopis has worked in a variety of mediums including painting, photography, prints and video.
The exhibition is part of the gallery's promotion of a monograph on the artist containing 140 full colour illustrations and in-depth essays of her work. The 176-page publication offers art-lovers, scholars and educators insight into her career and locates Siopis' work within the social and cultural contexts of contemporary South Africa as well as within the international art world.
The exhibition runs from 15 January to 17 January.
The Goodman Gallery is at 163 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood. Hours are Thursday to Friday 9.30am to 5.30pm and Saturday 9.30am to 4pm.
Paul Emmanuel Exhibition
The temporary exhibition space at the Old Fort on Constitution Hill hosts artist Paul Emmanuel's After Image.
His is a multi-media exhibition using photography, film and print. After Image is a follow up to Emmanuel's previous work The Lost Men and deals with memory loss, patriarchy and notions of masculinity.
Emmanuel has been widely exhibited both locally and internationally and his works are well known for exploring the enigmatic and the unfathomable.
On currently, the exhibition runs until 11 February.
The Temporary Exhibition Space is situated at the Old Fort on Constitution Hill, 1 Kotze Street, Braamfontein and is open from 9am to 4 pm daily.
A Place Called Home
Opening on Saturday 22 January at the Johannesburg Art Gallery is A Place Called Home - a contemporary art show with artists from the South Asian Diaspora.
The exhibition is a display of work by 11 artists of South East Asian descent in the photographic, print, video and web based mediums.
The exhibition takes a poignant look at the reasons Indians emigrated from their land of birth and how they have adopted the places they have settled in as their new "home". It features both local and international artists among them Sunil Gupta, an artist who incorporates his background of being an HIV positive, gay man in his emotive photography.
A Place Called Home closes on 13 March.
Dumile Feni
A five part retrospective exhibition of the works of Dumile Feni begins at the Johannesburg Art Gallery on 30 January.
Feni is hailed as on of the greatest South African artists of the 20th century and this exhibition is the first attempt to bring to the attention of the nation the work of a highly gifted artist. His drawings, painting and sculptures have been noted for their touching depiction of human catastrophe and sadness.
Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, book and educational supplement, Dumile Feni: Retrospective shows the artists development and experiences at different stages of his life before his death in 1991.
Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Pallo Jordan, will open the exhibition.
Dumile Feni: Retrospective closes 10 April.
The Johannesburg Art Gallery is on Klein Street in Joubert Park, downtown Johannesburg and is open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10am to 5pm. For more information call JAG on 011 725 3130.
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