ARTGO: Pop Goes The Family Man, Streetscapes, Imperfections

ARTGO: Pop Goes The Family Man, Streetscapes, Imperfections

ARTGO: Pop Goes The Family Man, Streetscapes, Imperfections View this email in your browser ARTGO News Daville Gallery JHB – Pop Goes The Family Man The artist known simply as FRINGE completed a year-long rollout of prints in May. He released a print a month – twelve in total – in his conceptual Facsimile series that reflected with pop iconography on family values, isolation and art practice in the time of the Covid pandemic. HERE Melrose Gallery JHB – Remember The Divine Mother - Restone Maambo Restone Maambo navigates his ancestry and experiences with 'Kusololwa Amumuni', the call from the ancestors to become a sangoma or spiritual healer, through his artistic practice. HERE Site, Materiality and Ritual; Constructively Engaging with Death and Loss.  Oliewenhuis Art Museum is proud to host a solo-exhibition by Bloemfontein based artist, Adelheid von Maltitz. For Adelheid making sculpture and installation art involves processes that allow her to think and work through personal anxieties regarding trauma or loss and death. Her interest in how her own art-making processes are comparable to conventional historical, as well as contemporary rituals which engage with death and loss HERE Strauss & Co - Pierneef, A Passion for Landscape In the early years of the twentieth century, Pierneef, perhaps South Africa's most iconic landscape painter, developed an ever recognisable aesthetic, helped establish a local landscape tradition, and achieved enormous popularity and critical success. HERE SAADA Johannesburg Winter Fair 2021 - 26 – 27 June 2021 The South African Antique, Art & Design Association (SAADA) invites you to its Johannesburg Winter Fair 2021. This boutique style event brings together South Africa's top antique dealers, showcasing their exciting new stock in an intimate setting. A curated selection of fine art, 20th century design, antiques, ceramics, silver, jewellery, vintage designer clothing and more will be on offer. HERE Book Now for the awesome Prince Albert Open Studios June 2021 The beautiful Karoo town of Prince Albert is a place that stands out as a hub of inspiration and artistic innovation as if something in the air attracts more than its fair share of artists, creatives and colourful characters. HERE Rejuvenate your soul with this week's colourful art shows Everard Read CT - Winter – A Group Exhibition Artists include Wayne Barker, Patrick Bongoy, Erin Chaplin, Driaan Claassen, Grace Cross, Ricky Dyaloyi, Vusi Khumalo, Lady Skollie, Louise Mason, Denby Meyer, John Meyer, Walter Meyer, Ignatius Mokone, Nigel Mullins, Brett Murray, Blessing Ngobeni, Kevin Roberts, Neil Rodger, Caryn Scrimgeour, Lionel Smit, Penelope Stutterheime, Angus Taylor, Florian Wozniak and introducing Jerome Lagarrigue./ Until 30 June. HERE Association of Arts Pretoria - Imperfections - Liezel Lüneburg solo exhibition The Tibetan word for Mandala means "that which encircles a centre".  Thus, a Mandala is in its simplest form a depiction of the deeper meaning it represents.  It is an object of balance and harmony and creating one brings inner peace and perspective on difficult issues./ 11 June - 3 July. HERE Prince Albert Gallery - Streetscapes - John Kramer solo exhibition John Kramer's paintings have an eery quality, ghostlike and spectral that is enduring, emphasised by Kramer's ability to paint the soft light, streaming across the latticed penumbra of the Karoo." Lin Sampson / Opens 18 June. HERE La Motte Museum CT - Celebrating the love of Art A personal selection by Hanneli Rupert-Koegelenberg / La Motte owner Hanneli Rupert-Koegelenberg invites art-lovers to an exhibition of rare and important artworks that shares some favourite works from her collection as well as the Rupert Art Foundation. / Until 25 July. HERE 131 A Gallery CT - Michael Amery - Van Riebeeck's Hedge  solo exhibition, 19 June 2021. HERE Dylan Lewis Sculpture Garden CT - A New Installation The Dylan Lewis Sculpture Garden on the outskirts of Stellenbosch has a new installation in the Grotto. Regular visitors to the garden will also notice a number of new works sited along the 3 km of paths in the Sculpture Garden, the remarkable 7-hectare open-air gallery that Lewis has created on the slopes of the Stellenbosch Mountains. / Contact reservations@dylanart.co.za to make a booking. HERE UCT Irma Stern Museum - Irma Stern Nudes, 1916-1965 The painter, sculptor, printmaker and draughtsperson Irma Stern is central to the canon of South African art. From at first being derided and misunderstood in her early career, to an internationally celebrated mid- and late career, Stern's art continues to be a noted part of South Africa's cultural heritage. The UCT Irma Stern Museum is excited to host the exhibition 'Irma Stern Nudes, 1916 1965', curated by Michael Godby / Until 02 July. HERE Salon91 Gallery CT - As Far as Forever Will Take Us An intimate group exhibition featuring the works of Paul Senyol, Elléna Lourens, and Keya Tama. - The Artists, each in a different stage of their career, have a visuality strongly rooted in the language of graphic street art and urbanism. As Far As Forever Will Take Us brings the artists together to collaborate and converse, through painting, the strange concept of forever. / 09 June - 03 July HERE The Viewing Room Art Gallery At St Lorient PTA - Make The Circle Bigger Ilandi Barkhuizen's solo exhibition / I ask the question, 'Am I African now?' to bring attention to the fact that, under the current trend of being a white South African, you are not automatically considered African. Once a white South African seeks more knowledge about the vast African ethnic groups, there is almost always an accusation that cultural appropriation is taking place. Until 31 July HERE EDG2020 Gallery JHB - Persona Personas are created in literature and the arts, entailing the interests and characteristics that set a person apart from others. The exhibition will show a varied range of figurative artworks dealing with the notion of persona, understood as a combination of aspects perceived by others as making up a person's character. It has to do with the way a person presents himself or herself to the world. Until 15 July HERE RK Contemporary Riebeek Kasteel - Falling In - a solo exhibition by Gordon Williams A lifetime of appreciating objects of beauty and a deep love for nature has inspired much of Williams' work - the rugged landscape of the Swartland region in particular.  His paintings are a unique combination of Expressionism and Impressionism and encapsulate the wild, ever changing landscape of the region. Until 27 June. HERE Everard Read CT - Vago Lucy Jane Turpin's latest solo exhibition. Until 30 June. HERE Oliewenhuis Art Museum BFN - 2020 Lockdown Art Quilts An exhibition of quilts by members of the Oranje Quilters' Guild. Quilt art, sometimes known as art quilting, is an art form that uses both modern and traditional quilting techniques to create art objects. Practitioners of quilt art create it based on their experiences, imagery and ideas, rather than traditional patterns./ Until 20 June. HERE Spin Street Gallery CT - One day at a time - 366 works by Neeske Alexander One day at a time' is a collection of 366 artworks created by Neeske Alexander - one for every day of 2020. This visual journey showcases the raw process of style and skill development that results from continued observational drawing and experimental mark making. Until 12 June. HERE Rust en Vrede Gallery CT - Give Me Space - Craig Cameron-Mackintosh, 2019 Portrait Award Winner Solo Exhibition / Not a Portrait - Group Exhibition featuring work by the 2019 Portrait Award Top 40 Finalists / Discarded – Tarien Engelbrecht 2019 Portrait Award Gallery Selected Artist – Solo Exhibition / All 3 exhibitions until 25 June HERE Eclectica Contemporary CT - Odyssey - Group exhibition - A showcase of North African artists. Ibrahim Khatab, Hussain Salim, Mimouni El Houssaine, Kamal Al-Feki, Mohamed Rabie - The title Odyssey refers to a long and adventurous pilgrimage home after war, as the ancient Homeric Poem narrates./ Ongoing show for June/July HERE Nel Art Gallery CT - Oupa Sibeko's Performance Installation Black is Blue Oupa Sibeko is an interdisciplinary performance artist whose work moves between performance installation, photography, film and community-based activism. Oupa's playful, often humorous and at times satirical approach deals with the matter and politics of the body as a contested site of labour, and as an object that assimilates the spirit of the moment and adapts to its environment./ Until 19 June. HERE ARTGO Call For Entries The Art of Innovation - Call for entries for the 2021 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition  Entries are now officially open for the annual Sasol New Signatures Art Competition 2021. Being the longest-running competition of its kind in South Africa, Sasol New Signatures has become a platform for unknown artists to break into the mainstream art stage. Sasol has sponsored this important art competition for over 30 years and has launched the careers of many household names in art currently working in South Africa and globally. HERE The Endangered Wildlife Trust Contemporary 21 Local artists are invited to submit works that speak to the EWT's vision of a healthy planet and an equitable world that values and sustains the diversity of all life for an exhibition entitled The EWT Contemporary 21. The exhibition will be held at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Illovo, Johannesburg, from Saturday 4 September – Sunday 12 September 2021. HERE Discovering New Breed Art  The New Breed Art Competition invites new and emerging Free State-based artists to enter and take a step towards being discovered as a new breed of artist. Competition entries for the 2021 New Breed Art Competition opens on 13 September 2021 and closes on 19 September 2021. HERE 35th Edition of Absa L'Atelier challenges young African artists to 'Act their Art' Proudly African bank Absa, in partnership with the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA), officially opened applications for the 2021 Absa L'Atelier art competition and invite young artists from across the continent to enter. HERE SA Auction / Action Strauss & Co UPCOMING ONLINE-ONLY AUCTION Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, and Wine 8:00am Monday, 5 Jul 2021 → 8:00pm Monday, 12 Jul 2021 Strauss & Co UPCOMING LIVE VIRTUAL AUCTION JH PIERNEEF: IN/SIGHT A single-artist auction dedicated to a modernist master 7:00pm Monday, 19 Jul 2021- Johannesburg 5th Avenue Auctioneers Next Auction - 2pm Saturday 19th June 2021 Persian & Oriental Carpets, Rugs, Runners & Kelims Auction Preview: Thursday 17th & Friday 18th of June, 09:00 to 17:00 and Saturday 19th of June, 09:00 – 13:00 Russell Kaplan Auctioneers Consignments are now open for our July Wunderkammer Auction Art Times June/July Edition Available now! 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