The value of art lies in its reminding us that perception can be reconstructed, revised and perhaps understood or simply appreciated as esoteric.
His landscapes also play as still-lifes. His mixture of ?things? are staged and almost theatrically put together.
His method relies on combination of geometric structure, limited colour range and an investigation of the surface materiality through interventions.
What is perhaps most appealing is that there is no overriding agenda - no one artist on display, nor a thematic and hierarchical top-down structure.
One cannot but be moved by the creative and curatorial effect and I found myself sensing something both ephemeral and yet definite at the same time.
The artist intelligently makes decisions about when that play ends and the object - the painting or sculpture - now emerges.
Playing her alter-ego, Dr Kali, her work appears to straddle the line between painting and photography, the sculptural and the installation or found-object.
The imagery and titles certainly speak to a range of subjects: ?The devil made do it?; ?Judging idols?; ?Earthly judges and prophets of doom?; and the list goes ...
As the exhibition title suggests, ?Layziehound? wishes to deduce that no individual or institution should be an arbiter of ethical rightness;
His work consists of lifestyle content, current affairs, race, gender and class-related issues, as well as anecdotes and stories about himself.
Johnny Lai Sang?s photographs capture a sense of foreboding as shadows lurk, as faces become mask-like, even dolls.
Cape Town-based artist Carla Inez Espost's installation is overwhelming, incorporating as it does a number and great variety of things.
The three exhibitions on offer have the effect of deconstructing and destabilising assumed paradigms.
The singer, songwriter and recording artist is living his dream; regardless of the hurdles along the way.
Comic duo Stuart Cairns and Westley Cockrell are presenting the Book Detectives at the Alexander Bar, with the last show tonight.
This show forms an important step in trying to prevent the appropriation or repossession of the farm.
A collection of paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures are on display at the home of Charlette Schachat, better known as Die Kunskamer.
It's been been a long journey for artist Sorrel Hofmann.
The three artists are all recent Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, graduates and contribute an interesting and dynamic photographic expression.
Penny Siopis speaks about the significance of process. While concept is important, she welcomes the unpredictability of what she calls ?materiality?.
Such aesthetic charm exists amid the chaos and turmoil beyond the ?white cube? ? the gallery space.
O? Flynn?s signature pop-inspired style appears to carry a double-edged meaning.
An odd work greets one as one enters Blank Projects. One is presented with different coloured plastic plates by Ntlonti.
The quest for a lost Eden pertinent to SA is covertly addressed in these works, each artist having dealt with such issues within their own system.
The exhibition theme is to register movement first within the artist’s personal experience, then within a South African context and yet still as a microcosm of the ...