November 22, 2005
By Buhle Makabane
A NUMBER of fascinating and beautiful art exhibitions are on the diary for Joburg, with themes ranging from cultural diversity, portraits of Jozi artists and the poetics of vulnerability, to works focusing on the earth.
Standard Bank Gallery
A retrospective of work by Walter Battiss, the Gentle Anarchist, is a belated tribute to the "grand old man" of South African Arts. Batiss was born in 1906 and died in 1982.
His work is on display at the Standard Bank Gallery, in Johannesburg, until 3 December. More than three hundred works are included in the exhibition, including oils and watercolours, graphic art, sketches and tapestries.
The gallery is at the corner of Simmonds and Frederick streets in downtown Johannesburg. It is open from 8am to 4.30pm on Monday to Friday, and from 9am to 1pm on Saturday. It is closed on Sunday and public holidays.
For more information, contact the gallery on 011 631 1889.
Johannesburg Art Gallery
There are a number of exhibitions now running at the Johannesburg Art Gallery - Exposed, The Pioneers, Modern International, Treasures, Southern African Art, Landscape Across Time And Place, and 32 Dimensional.
Exposed focuses on works from the gallery's photographic collections, to complement exhibitions by Peter McKenzie and Abrie Fourie. It includes well-known South African photographers David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng and Jo Ractliffe. It runs until 27 February 2006.
From the Abrie Fourie exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery
The Pioneers runs until 16 December. It looks at the work of the older black artists who focused on urban scenes, such as Gerard Sekoto and Ephraim Ngatane.
The Modern International exhibition focuses on the gallery's most popular collection. It includes some of the more popular artists and movements like Minimalism, Op Art, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Surrealism.
From the gallery's South African Contemporary Collection comes Treasures. Local contemporary art falls between African materials, processes, concerns and aesthetics, and Western art.
Works by Jane Alexander, Kendall Greers and Tracey Rose are included, and the exhibition runs from 8 November.
Southern African Art, running from 8 November, places on show a selection of traditional southern African objects from the JAG's permanent collections, such as rare Ndebele and Sotho child figures, seats from northern Zimbabwe, carved staffs, medicine vessels, beadwork, fine headrests and carved wooden figures.
To highlight the changes across time and space, landscapes are being displayed, from 8 November. Some of the JAG's oil paintings include key works from the 17-century, Barbizon, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Pointillist and other movements.
Finally, curator Pitso Chinzama presents a selection of works from the gallery's collections that hang on walls but that are more sculptural than two-dimensional in 32 Dimensional, until 27 February 2006.
The Johannesburg Art Gallery is on the southern border of Joubert Park. The entrance is on King George's Street. The gallery is open Monday to Sunday and entrance is free.
Obert Contemporary
Obert Contemporary present Bronywn Millar's selfish from 17 to 30 November. Millar's work comprises a series of variously scaled mixed media works derived from self-portraits that animate and transform into compelling analyses of self and public perception.
The gallery, at 14 The High Street, Melrose Arch, Melrose, is open from 11am to 7pm daily. For more information, contact 011 684 1214.
Goodman Gallery
At the Goodman, Penny Siopis gives outline to what she sees as "emotional states that exist on a 'knife-edge' between panic and passion, terror and tenderness".
In this exhibition she continues exploring what she calls "a poetics of vulnerability".
The Gallery is at 163 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, and is open from Tuesday to Friday between 9.30am and 5.30pm, and on Saturday from 9.30am to 4pm. It is closed on Sunday and Monday.
For more information, contact the gallery on 011 788 1113.
Kim Sacks Gallery
Coming to Kim Sacks on Sunday, 27 November is a Katherine Glenday fine porcelain exhibition, entitled Still water and singing stones.
There are two themes in the works - one focuses on earth as a living body and the other explores the flow between microcosm and macrocosm in the natural realm.
Glenday will give a poetry reading and a talk about her recent work at the opening. The exhibition will run for two weeks. For more information, contact the gallery on 011 726 6420.
Goldart Gallery
Derek Davey exhibits a series of black and white portraits of Jozi artists, from performers to street artists known and unknown. This forms part of Goldart's Christmas celebrations and its second birthday.
In addition, Davey's marimba band entertainment visitors to the gallery.
During the exhibition, various artists will be given recycled materials on which they will paint, carve, engrave or make collages - creating fun, funky works to be sold at reasonable prices.
The Christmas show will open on Saturday, 3 December at 2pm. For more details phone Adrienne, Mary or Gordon on 011 726 8519.
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