Main Gallery

Emma Willemse  l  dis[place]

8 May – 1 June

dis[place] is a reflection of Willemse’s continued interest in the phenomenon of displacement and its effects. Working from her own experiences of displacement, she employs materials found in demolished houses to construct her installations. Alongside these she also exhibits print works created through a lengthy process of hand built collage, digitally edited and re-edited, and printed in the photogravure method, as well as monotype and ink & jik prints.

Upstairs Gallery

Group Exhibition  l  No Place Like Now

8 May – 1 June

Curated jointly by Emma Willemse and Tamzin Lovell Miller

No Place Like Now addresses questions such as:

• What is the significance of place in an era where technological reliance denies a sense of physicality in place?
• How do people relate to and experience place today and how does it contrast with experiences before our time?
• What are the historical, sociological and psychological meanings generated by place and space?
• What is the relationship between place and memory and place and identity? 

This exhibition will run in the Upstairs Gallery from the 7^th May (opening reception on the 8^th of May) until the 1st June 2013.

Emma Willemse

Neill Wright

Benon Lutaaya

Neville Petersen

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Manav Gupta

June – July

“Using long prevailing cultural and spiritual idioms in India I have used the earthen lamp as a metaphor to create minimalistic installations of contemporary art that raises thought provoking questions on some of the key global issues that form the BRICS dialogue. It seeks to contribute significantly to the softer dimensions of human psyche to build up of sensibilities towards development of humanity and establish a more equitable and fair world that respects earth and the equitable and responsible use of its resources,” commented the artist Manav Gupta about the exhibition. “It is indeed a pleasure and an honour for me to be adding my drop in the ocean of South Africa and India’s rich legacy of cultural history and building more bonds between the two countries in the extraordinary commonalities of profound cultural heritage of the two countries,” -Gupta.

Gupta currently works in New Delhi and is best known for his pioneering collaborative art as performances and mega murals. He won international acclaim for the first-of-a-kind, six storey high, (5000 sq ft in facade and 10000 sq ft of total painted surface), commissioned mega mural at the headquarters of leading telecom corporate giant in Gurgaon; he pioneered co-creations with his “Jugalbandis” (Collaborations) with leading musicians, poets and dancers, including Dr L.Subramanium, Shubha Mudgal, Anup Jalota and Rahul Sharma where he translates a performing artist’s oeuvre live on stage onto canvas; his works have been sold by Christie’s Christie’s, Bonhams, Philip de Pury and are in leading permanent public collections around the world ; he has co-authored a book of poems and paintings with former President of India Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, published by Penguin India.(2002–2005); he delivered guest lectures on art, environment and collaborative public art practices at the San Jose State University and the ICD, Berlin in 2010 and he creates single edition functional sculptures and public installations with varied media including iron, steel, wood, discarded roots of trees, glass, recycled scrap metal and clay for interior and exterior corporate and private spaces.