Enrich your Sunday afternoon at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) with the launch of three events: travel with George Mahashe on his photographic journey, Gae Lebowa, that leads him to the wisdom of his ancestry; contemplate the dynamic time-based exhibition Time’s Arrow curated by Anthea Buys and consider the themes of freedom and violence with Berlin based artist Claudia Shneider.
GAE LEBOWA: Opens at 4pm
Gae Lebowa, sees Mahashe traveling north, a direction that symbolises a psychological space, a general direction, a genealogical origin and a point of knowledge. Here he finds old men and woman who are the metaphor for knowledge and wisdom and, with these, Mahasha explores the road that leads to his being.
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TIME’S ARROW: Opens at 5pm
Time’s Arrow is a time-based exhibition project starting on 21 Feb and ending on 18 April. It looks at the relationship between the formation of the Johannesburg Art Gallery’s collection of artworks and how this collection is viewed, read, imagined, forgotten, resented, buried and dug up again years later. One narrative strand of the JAG collection’s history will initiate the show and this will be followed by works by emerging and established artists and researchers that respond specifically or broadly to this initial selection. http://www.timesarrowatjag.blogspot.com/
SHOWMASTER: Opens at 6pmSHOWMASTER: Opens at 6pm a Project Room exhibition by Claudia Shneider shows drawings and paintings engrossed with the general themes of freedom and violence, employing her favourite motives: women, animals and (South) Africa.
Venue: Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), King George Street, between Wolmarans and Noord Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg. Secure parking is available.
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Also catch Legends of Culture at Right on the Rim Project Salon
Sunday February 21, at 2 pm: Cindy Sampson and Prophet JD tell you ancient stories which are more than 1000 years old from Japan, the Rhine, the Arabian Desert and Africa under the trees of Arts on Main in front of the Project Salon “Right on the Rim” (duration: about 1 hour).
No entrance fee, but voluntary contribution requested.
http://www.artsonmain.co.za/events.html
i would like to know about the recent exebhition that is happening at the jhb art gallary at the moment…
Reflex | Reflexion
A collaboration stretching over two years between South African and Spanish artists, Reflex | Reflexion is an exhibition presenting work from the project INFLUX / REFLUX / REFLEX. The exhibition is on until 16 January 2011. http://www.joburg.org.za/culture/museums-galleries/jag/240-reflex-reflexion
Ernest Cole Photographer
Ernest Cole believed passionately in his mission to use photographs to tell the world what it was like, and what it meant, to be black under apartheid. With courage and compassion, his lens penetrated the depth and extent of the insanity of apartheid and how its racist laws oppressed the lives of black people. Exhibition concludes November 21, 2010. http://www.joburg.org.za/culture/museums-galleries/jag/ernest-cole-photographer
Transformations
‘Women’ is the axel around which Transformations revolves. The exhibition, on at the Johannesburg Art Gallery until January 2011, tackles 14 interlinked themes from the typically feminine such as women’s work, and the role of the mother, to social commentary on current-day issues. http://www.joburg.org.za/culture/museums-galleries/jag/transformations