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“Skerwe uit die Ontstaan van ’n Oorledige Self” – ’n Waarneming van ’n Breyten Breytenbach-kunsuitstalling
by Penguin Books on Nov 5th, 2015 Tweet
Breyten Breytenbach se kunsuitstalling – “Skerwe uit die Ontstaan van ‘n Oorledige Self / Fragmented Emergence of a Late Self” – is verlede maand in Die Breytenbach Galery by die Breytenbach Sentrum in Wellington tentoongestel. Ampie Coetzee het sy waarnemings en foto’s van die kunswerke op LitNet gedeel.
Breytenbach se jongste boek, Parool/Parole, het onlangs by Penguin verskyn en bestaan uit ’n keur van sy grootste en aangrypendste toesprake wat, deur die belangrike onderwerpe, steeds literêre, politieke en filosofiese vure aansteek.
Coetzee besin oor die betekenis (of be-teken-is) van Breytenbach se skilderye wat gepaardgaan met beskrywende gedigte. Hy neem die leser deur die uitstalling, van die titel aan die bopunt van die trap tot die reeks selfportrette – “nie altyd mooi nie (soms belaglik, soms bevrees, soms toe-oog)”.
Wat hy hier vir sy skilderye waarsku en sê, is dat hulle “elkander” (vir die kykers) “die plesiertjie van ‘n kyk” moet gee, hulle waardig moet gedra, en
moenie aanstoot neem as betragters
voor julle kom staan en giggel
en die gek met julle skeer nie –
wat sou hulle ook kon weet
van tot beelding kom se sleepsiektes
en hoe sal hulle julle gebreke kan lees.
En “mits dese gee ek julle oor aan die oë van die vreemdes”, want “wat sou beloerders ook kon verstaan/ van voortlewe …”. Woorde soos “kyk”, “betragters”, “beloerders”, “die groustaar van ‘n oog …”, “oogskille”, en ander assosiasies met kyk, kom oral in die skilderye voor.
Volledige artikel (en foto’s): LitNet
Parool/Parole deur Breyten Breytenbach
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See Venice Through a Writer’s Eyes: Michele Rowe Reflects on Her Visit to the Venice Biennale
by Penguin Books on Sep 16th, 2015 Tweet
Michéle Rowe has written a two-part blog entry for All About Writing on her visit to the beautiful city of Venice.
Rowe’s latest novel, Hour of Darkness, was recently released by Penguin Random House South Africa and is premised around the question: What crimes are committed in Cape Town during Earth Hour when the city is shrouded in darkness?
In part 1 of her blog entry entitled “The Art of Visiting Venice”, Rowe describes the first glimpse of the city and shares photographs of the watery streets and impressive statues.
I am here for the Venice Bienale, the biggest art show in the world, where my husband Warrick is showing work at the South African Pavilion. It is preview week, and Venice is filled with art lovers, buyers and practitioners, some of whom are crowded onto the deck with me. The Grand Canal opens up into the lagoon and we are greeted by the two churches, San Giorgio Maggiore and Salute, dream like visions rising straight out of the water. Surely one of the most beautiful welcomes to a city from the sea.
Complete article: All About Writing
Read part 2 of Rowe’s account of her visit to Venice, in which she reflects on all the wondrous art she experienced at the Venice Biennale:
The most beautiful building in the Giardini, is the Russian pavilion, this year painted green Inside, artist Irina Nakhova has made a series of remarkable “total environments,” conceived together with curator and expert on the Russian avant-garde Margarita Tupitsyn. The environments consist of multi media collage of haunting images, and an electrifying red and green room. At the entrance, we are confronted by a sinister giant black space helmet, looming out of the darkness. The visor is entirely blank, only the hissing sound of slow compressed breathing can be heard. Suddenly it blinks into life and the artist’s enormous eyes appear trapped inside. The impression of claustrophobia and imprisonment is and unnerving.