UITPAK, ESTRELLA DE MAR and AMERICA MADE IN CHINA at JAG
Opening: Sunday 18 April 2010
Hannelie Coetzee’s Uitpak: 4pm
Nuria Mora’s Estrella de Mar : 5pm
Roelien Brink’s America made in China: 6pm
Once again there are three exciting exhibition openings at the Johannesburg Art Gallery to make your Sunday afternoon all the more enjoyable. Three women artists with three different angles on art and life:
Hannelie Coetzee’s exhibition Uitpak consists of 324 pieces of sandstone that had been engraved for installation at Freedom Park. These were subsequently rejected and discarded -condemned to wastage as landfill. The artist has salvaged the slabs, creating a memorial artwork outside JAG, which finds new life to speak of a community’s past and their particular, long-ago struggle.
Taking as her example the starfish that re-grows any limb that is severed, Nuria Mora´s Estrella de Mar project creates a multitude of works all stemming from the same nuclei. Starting with a simple cube in the gallery space, this is added to and then dismantled piece by piece. New street works, originating from the removable parts of the first work are then created within the city. http://albertodepedro.ekosystem.org/category/nuria-mora/
In an exhibition titled America made in China, the artist William Kentridge, formerly known as Roelien Brink, considers aesthetics ideals from within a consumerist and media saturated culture. She looks at how media confers value on mere symbols, such as artworks, through its idealization of youth and beauty. The exhibition challenges our value system, which the artist considers groundless.
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All of these exhibitions are short interventions but, in the case of Hannelie Coetzee and Nuria Mora, the product will remain behind – Hannelie in the form of her installation outside the JAG and Nuria in the form of murals around the city.
Exhibition enquiries: Ricky Burnett 0760379403
Venue: Johannesburg Art Gallery, King George Street, between Wolmarans and Noord Streets, Joubert Park, Johannesburg
Secure parking is available
Open Tuesday to Sunday – 10am to 5pm.
Closed Mondays, Good Friday & Christmas Day
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The Johannesburg Art Gallery is located in Joubert Park and the entrance in King George Street off Wolmarans or Smith depending on the direction that you are coming from.
For further information, please contact: Tiny Malefane(t) +27(0)117203479 (f)+27(0)117203481 (e) tinym@joburg.org.za or jag@joburg.org.za
