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Cavalli Gallery present "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden", an immersive exhibition that invites artists to explore the intricate relationship between humanity and the natural world. With the start of spring around the corner, participating artists were invited to embark on a journey to challenge conventional notions of beauty and confront the complexities hidden beneath the surface of a seemingly perfect rose garden.
The exhibition at Cavalli will feature painting, sculpture, ceramics & hand-crafted works by just over 25 artists.
Participating artists include: Alice Toich, Alexia Vogel (in collaboration with Barnard Gallery), Amber Moir, Chelsea Young, Chris van Niekerk, Colijn Strydom, Daniel Levi, Driaan Claassen, Elsabe Milandri, Emma Nourse, Fanie Buys, Frans Smit, Gabrielle Raaff, Jan Ernst de Wet, Jana Wasserman, Johann Nortje, Kate Scharf, Katrin Coetzer, Kirsten Jenna Haviland, Lené Ehlers, Luami Calitz, Marguerite Roux, Matthew Prins, Michelle Madzima, Olivia Botha, Paul Senyol, Ronel de Jager, Rosie Mudge (in collaboration with SMAC Gallery) and Sarah Heinamann.
Curated by Amy Lyn Eveleigh.
Please RSVP attendance by Friday, 25 August. Contact the gallery on gallery@cavalliestate.com for further information.
‘We live in a radioactive and toxic time, which some call the ‘end times’. It is a time as apocalyptic as it is weirdly and wildly filled with promise. The key is never to succumb to fatality, always realise that options are open. As Shakespeare says – ‘Ripeness is All’. It is with this full embrace that we push ahead, refuse despair, hold fast to an optimal vibration – a vibration that is only possible when we stretch the bandwidth, tighten a flex so it thrums and soars with a dizzying grace. An optimal vibration is transcendence now, a miraculous connection, a bizarrely accurate bouncing ball that hits the spot from a weird angle. It is art that lights up a room, puts a spring in the step of tired feet, that scoops up sorrow and flings it over the moon. The optimal vibration can be loud, or gentle, easy on the eye, or leave one agog and aghast with a bellyful of laughter or a tickling titter. Matisse was right when he said that he made caring art for tired men and women to look at, once they’ve kicked off their shoes, and settled into a cozy couch with a comforting broth. Art need not hurt. Art can plunder canyons of joy. All can be illumined, even a bucket of shit by dazzling sunlight, as James Joyce reminds us. To dazzle, bedazzle, vibrate from the innards outward, is to adopt ‘a style that’s truly alive: meaning, it’s in the veins: meaning, it’s of the most ancient culture of immediate creation. Federico Garcia Lorca had a name for this optimal vibration – Duende… Something primitive yet modern, immemorial yet radically current. Not now now, but now!
Observations in ink and water-colour of people in my local city streets and on my local beach.
A group show at RK Contemporary Gallery in Riebeeck Kasteel
Find an ongoing series of figurative and landscape works in water colour and ink on paper on www.upriseart.com and on Instagrame on uprisenyc.
SMITH presents Emphatic Whispers, a group exhibition that investigates the potential for art to make us more
empathetic beings, and transform the way we relate to other people.
Intimacy is too often confined with matters of love; yet the word belongs
more to trust, to faith. It denotes an act of revelation found in the simple
gesture of sharing; bringing that which was previously hidden out from the
shadows and into the light. In this exhibition, the artworks chosen explore
intimacy in both their content and their form. They touch on universal
themes – like birth and love and death – but also on other more singular
intimacies; personal histories, dreams and desires. The works reflect on selfintimacy,
experienced in solitude, and the intimacy shared between us, be it
romantic or platonic, familial or fleeting. There is, too, intimacy of familiar
spaces, spaces we inhabit in both the world and in our minds. And then,
there is the intimacy of objects, and our relationships to them; a cherished
photograph, clothes left lying on the floor, a coffee half drunk, now gone
cold, a letter hidden in a bottom drawer. And always an implied subject, who
has held and touched these objects, so that each becomes a metonym for
something, or someone, else.
Investec Cape Town Art Fair is the largest art fair on the African continent, showing cutting edge contemporary art. The Fair provides a platform for galleries, collectors, curators and artists from around the globe to engage in cultural and economic exchange. We offer an intimate experience of one of the world’s most unique art capitals. ICTAF is where the fast-growing African art market and the international art world meet.
The allure of Investec Cape Town Art Fair is its content and its placement on the African continent. With the advent of its 7th edition, the market has proven that art fairs are a sustainable economic model for trade in contemporary art.
The city's geography is an integral part of Investec Cape Town Art Fair’s success. Cape Town is a vibrant cultural hub, attracting international collectors with the novelty of diverse, cutting edge art and a favourable exchange rate.
A concept of relative simplicity, nano- 1.1 invited artists to zoom in, scale down, shrink, condense, encapsulate and compact; submitting works no larger than 20 x 20 cm. The exhibition is an opportunity to play with scale, to explore what effects it has for both artist and viewer, and what new parameters it may set for the curator and the gallery space.
“Salad is a collection of works we have admired throughout year. This is a snapshot of where these artists are in their careers. SMITH has had an incredible year with many of our artists opening their second solo exhibitions. As a young gallery it is exciting to watch artists grow and evolve with us,” says Gallery Director Candace Marshall-Smith.
Contributing artists: Anna van der Ploeg, Banele Khoza, Bert Pauw, Daniella Mooney, David
Stephen Allwright, Byron Berry, David Brits, Grace Cross, Katharien de Villiers, Jeanne Gaigher, Hoick, Jess Holdengarde, Jill Joubert, Banele Khoza, Nico Krijno, Kyu Sang Lee, Osborne Macharia, Io Makandal, Nicole McComb, Mitchell Gilbert Messina, Gitte Möller, Daniella Mooney, Rosie Mudge, Bert Pauw, Gabrielle Raaff, Willie Saayman, Marsi van der Heuvel, Anna van der Ploeg, Frank van Reenen, Morné Visagie, Elize Vossgätter, Geena Wilkinson, Michaela Younge
A Group Show with artists Kirsten Beets, Georgina Berens, Heidi Fourie, Jeanne Hoffman, Kirsten Lilford,Berry Meyer, Natasha Norman, Kirsten Sims
My latest solo is currently on show at Smith, 56 Church Street in Cape Town.
From 23rd February to 25th of March 2017.
An end of year group show.
Works will be on view by appointment at the gallery.
Art Hub Gallery. 5-9 Creekside, London SE8 4SA
Which translated means...Beneath the pavement,the beach.
This is a group exhibition opening on Friday the 16th May at 6pm at POST at The Old Castle Brewery, Woodstock.
The show is curated by Janet Anderson.
