In this short article I will limit myself to the viewing of four installations included in the exhibition as I feel that they specifically demonstrate Ingrid Bolton’s competent manipulation of copper as an artistic medium and they also represent the continuity of the artist’s artistic approach in her art making which I hazard to call the ‘concretization of scientific themes within the visual art domain’.… Read More Connect Disconnect
Viewing this art exhibition with the awareness of the artist’s earlier work the viewer will realise a remarkable move towards suspended installation. Punctuating this recent development is the fact that the five works comprising this exhibition are traditionally viewed on pedestals with a top down view. Whereas the ‘108’ installation is at eye level.… Read More Poorvi Bana’s search for Serenity
an emotionally moving story about courage pitted against the odds.… Read More The Way Back
f one approaches Fall of the Tomb looking for solutions as to where our society should be headed as far as social cohesion is concerned one will fail to encounter any whatsoever. Fall of the Tomb is a provocative work that seeks to re-center sensitive issues of identity and space domination in an evolving society back on the pedestal of discussion and reassertion. What the viewer will take with them is the questioning of how we are continuing our historical narrative and the dangers that impede on our progress when we do not consider the danger of poor historical narrative as a result of removal of past historical memories embodied in artifacts such as memorial sculptures.… Read More Pule Diphare and the New Consciousness
To whom does South Africa belong? to whom does Pretoria belong to? Fall of the Tomb reaffirms that it is only through a discursive contest of grounds that our flawed past can be grappled with mercilessly, looking at things as they were and are right now rather than wishing for a utopian version of our lives to meet us at our doorstep when we rise each morning.
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