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‘Mine’ die werk van knap kurator – Beeld
Posted in News, tagged Abrie Fourie, Berni Searle, Bridget Baker, Cedric Nunn, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Donna Kukama, Doris Bloom, Gregg Smith, Jacques Coetzer, Johan Myburg, Johan Thom, Lerato Shadi, Michael MacGarry, Minnette Vári, Nandipha Mntambo, Penny Siopis, Robin Rhode, Simon Gush en Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Teboho Edkins, UJ Gallery, Zanele Muholi on June 8, 2012|
– Abrie Fourie (kurator)
Die titel vir dié versameling kortflieks deur Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars ontleen Abrie Fourie aan die gelyknamige 1991-animasiefliek van William Kentridge.
Dié fliek is deel van Nine Draw­ings for Projection (gemaak tussen 1989 en 2003) waarin die verhaal vertel word van Soho Eckstein as sakeman (en in Mine as myneienaar).
In dié flieks word verskeie aspekte van myn of mine ontgin: die diepgroefmyn waaruit Eckstein sy rykdom buit; die toeëiening van dit waarop die hande gelê kan word; maar ook die woordspel met “ondermyn”.
Myn as aanduiding van posisionering en identiteit kom uiteraard ter sprake en dit is dalk dié gedagte wat deursyfer in die werke van die 18 ander kunstenaars.
Benewens Kentridge is daar die werk van Bridget Baker, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Doris Bloom, Jacques Coetzer, Teboho Edkins, Simon Gush en Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Donna Kukama, Michael MacGarry, Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi, Cedric Nunn, Robin Rhode, Berni Searle, Lerato Shadi, Penny Siopis, Gregg Smith, Johan Thom en Minnette Vári.
Vári se Alien spook jare later (en nog net so sterk soos in 1998 toe dit gemaak is) met vreemdelingskap en vervreemding.
As sy toe aspekte soos vrees, begeerte, besit, verlies en ’n bewussyn van die self teen die agtergrond van ’n onderdrukkende regime verbeeld het, is haar Alien nou allermins vreemd.
Fourie se samestelling van die uitstalling – wat ook vertoon is in Bayreuth, Duitsland, en Dubai, Verenigde Arabiese Emirate – is besonder behendig gedoen. In stede van oorhel na die swaarmoedige sluit hy op speelse wyse ook die anargistiese werk in van Rhode en die melancholiese Temporary Rebellion (2008) van Coetzer.
Dié dokumentasie van ’n openbare performance op die N1 vergestalt iets van die individu se insulêre bestaan buite die hoofstroom.
Neffens die bedrywige oggendverkeer op die snelweg sit ’n tromspeler en speel sy hart uit.
Fourie se uitstalling verg dat ’n mens tyd moet bestee, meer as wat die gemiddelde besoeker aan ’n galery wel doen.
In die konteks van die uitstalling tree die onderlinge werke met elkander in gesprek en kry die individuele werke ’n aanvullende betekenis.
Wat ’n sinryke aanbieding.
– Johan Myburg
This article originally appeared here: http://www.beeld.com/Vermaak/Nuus/Mine-die-werk-van-knap-kurator-20120321
‘Mine: A Selection of Films by South African Artists ‘ at the University of Johannesburg
Posted in News, tagged Berni Searle, Bridget Baker, Cedric Nunn, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Donna Kukama, Doris Bloom, Gregg Smith, Jacques Coetzer, Johan Thom, Lerato Shadi, Michael McGarry, Minette Vari, Nandipha Mnthambo. Zanele Muholi, Penny Siopis, Robin Rhode, Simon Gush & Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Teboho Edkins, William Kentridge on March 6, 2012|
invites you to the opening of the exhibition entitled
A Selection of Films by South African Artists
Kingsway Campus, Corner of Kingsway Avenue and University Road Auckland Park
Bridget Baker, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Doris Bloom, Jacques Coetzer, Teboho Edkins, Simon Gush & Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, William Kentridge, Donna Kukama, Michael McGarry, Nandipha Mnthambo. Zanele Muholi, Cedric Nunn, Robin Rhode, Berni Searle, Lerato Shadi, Penny Siopis, Gregg Smith, Johan Thom, Minette Vari
UJ Arts and Culture presents an exhibition entitled Mine at the UJ Art Gallery during March 2012. This exhibition, with a selection of nineteen films by prominent South African artists, addresses not only the concept of deep level mining, but also that of personal ownership and the countless ways in which the self is identified and positioned.
The diverse works chosen by Berlin based curator Abrie Fourie for this show all have a common denominator: the artists make references to themselves in their work – either in person, as actor, model, observer, interviewer or instigator.
Furthermore, some of the artists such as Johan Thom, Bridget Baker, Robin Rhode, Teboho Edkins, Doris Bloom and Gregg Smith presently live in European capitals, while South African based artists enjoy an increased presence in the global art world. Their various approaches are thus colored by local and diasporal perceptions, but they all nonetheless seek answers pertaining to aspects of identity from a perspective on South African concerns.
Capitalist exploitation, colonialism, the social, political and cultural realities of the country, history and memories are addressed by artists such as William Kentridge (nine of his videos produced between 1989 and 2003 will be on show and we get to meet Soho Eckstein again), Penny Siopis (Obscure White Messenger:2010) and Bridget Baker (Steglitz House: 2009 – 2010), while Minette Vári, for instance, in her production (Alien:1998), positions herself in the cultural archive of the new South Africa during the period 1994 to 1998.
The film and video productions with their often experimental styles are described by Anna Schrade from the University of Bayreuth as seeking “… to represent the experience of living between two or more cultural regimes of knowledge and explore the myriad ways in which we identify and position ourselves in a world where “mining the self” is imperative for the formulation of new and alternative identities, histories and discourse” (2011).
Fourie, who conceptualized this exhibition, is an artist, photographer, curator and art facilitator.
This exhibition was first shown at the University of Bayreuth in Germany last year, and at the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year.
A booklet providing more insight into each of the works will be available at the exhibition.
Discussion and walkabout:
Saturday 17 March 2012 at 11:00.
0115592556 | gallery@uj.ac.za | 0115592099
The exhibition ends 28 March 2012.
Mine – A Selection of Films by South African Artists @ DUCTAC (Dubai), 18 Jan – 6 Feb 2012
Posted in News, tagged Abrie Fourie, Berni Searle, Bridget Baker, Cedric Nunn, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Donna Kukama, Doris Bloom, Dorothee Kreutzfelt, DUCTAC, Gregg Smith, Jaques Coetzer, Johan Thom, Lerato Shadi, Michael McCarry, Minette Vari, Nandipha Mntambo, Penny Siopis, Robin Rhode, Simon Gush, Teboho Edkins, William Kentridge, Zanele Muholi on December 21, 2011|