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Pauline Gutter wants to understand and comprehend the substance of the land, the people and the cattle by interweaving them metaphorically into figures of each other, almost like images that are reflected mutually between three mirrors. A struggle for survival prevails in the dangerous world that is projected to us in the paintings on exhibition. The viewer observes the land, the people and animals in the extreme, depicted as soft targets and voiceless victims.

The violence we perceive is not depicted explicitly; rather it is embodied in the medium of paint. The manner in which the artist has approached the creation process has resulted in an extraordinary variety of exceptional marks and motifs -sometimes applied energetically, brusquely and even violently, at times rashly and aggressively, on other occasions with remarkable skill and with a refined and sophisticated touch.

Afrikaans Version

Pauline Gutter wil land, mens en bees peil deur hulle metafories te vervleg tot figure van mekaar, amper soos beelde wat onderling tussen drie spieëls gekaats word. Daar heers ’n oorlewingstryd in die gevaarlike wêreld wat die werke op hierdie uitstalling vir ons projekteer. Ons aanskou land, mens en dier in extremis, want hulle word voorgestel as sagte teikens en stemlose slagoffers.

Die geweld word nie openlik uitgebeeld nie, maar eerder in die skilderkunstige medium beliggaam. Die skilderkunstige maakproses ontplooi en ontrafel in hierdie werke tot ’n buitengewone verskeidenheid van merke en motiewe – soms energiek, hardhandig en selfs geweldadig aangewend, op bepaalde punte kroes en kras, by tye egter ook met ’n uiters behendige en verfynde aanslag.

 

  • RENDEZVOUS - BLOEMFONTEIN

  • Terra Nullius - Pretoria

  • STRYDOM GALERY - George

  • ABSA KKNK - OUDTSHOORN

  • Linking Up

Exhibition

Oliewenhuis Art Museum cordially invites you to the opening of:

RENDEZVOUS
Focus Painting

A traveling exhibition of artists
who use painting as their medium

The exhibition will be opened by
Annali Cabano-Dempsey
Curator: University of Johannesburg Art Gallery

at 19:00 on Thursday, 19 April 2012

RSVP before 17 April 2012
at 051-447 9609 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

Exhibition

Terra Nullius Group Exhibition
WALKABOUT AND CLOSING PARTY - Saturday 21 April 2012, at 12 noon

Venue: Fried Contemporary Art Gallery, 430 Charles Street, Brooklyn, Pretoria
Phone: 012 346 0158 or 082 523 6989
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For more information go to:
Fried Contemporary Art Gallery

Terra nullius is the second in a series of four curated exhibitions that explore the rela­tionship of the self to place, land, soil or earth. The works on exhibition attempt to un­cover how we relate and emotionally attach ourselves to the land, and how we project hope, expectations and even our identity on a piece of earth.

In an ambivalent sense, the notion of terra nullius relates to an earth that is brimful of memories and histories and yet at the same time, remains buried and invisible to the eye, almost suggesting unoccupied, virginal land. In the context of world economic crises; ecological, planetary changes; and new emerging cultural patterns in the global area, the exhibition theme is relevant and points to how people often have to start ‘all over again’, adapt and reinvent themselves, sometimes in totally new environments. In this process, memory and rewriting become two core aspects of the course of action in order to set up mediating links between the old and the new.

 

 

Exhibition

STRYDOM GALERY - George

Circles, Cycles and Seasons

Opening: Sunday, 1 April 2012 at 11:00am (Opening Speaker: Gordon Froud
Date: 1 - 30 April 2012
\ Place: 79 Market Street, George
GPS Co-ordinates: 33º57'42.66"S - 22º27'24.54"E

Website: www.artaffair.co.za

Tel: +27 44 874 4027

Exhibition

Exhibition

ABSA KKNK - OUDTSHOORN

Ik ben een Afrikander
NOMINATION: Kanna for Best Visual Arts Exhibition

PLACE: Prince Vincent Gebou
DATES & TIMES: 31 Maart 09:00 • 1 April 09:00 • 2 April 09:00 • 3 April 09:00 • 4 April 09:00 • 5 April 09:00 • 6 April 09:00 • 7 April 09:00

Ik ben een Afrikander is ’n groepsuitstalling deur Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars onder kuratorskap van Teresa Lizamore. Afrikaanse identiteit is gewortel in die behoefte om hierdie kontinent as ’n tuiste te bevestig. Die stem van nuwe Afrikaanse kunstenaars, digters en denkers word al meer gehoor om die konsep van ’n Afrikaneridentiteit wat nie net ’n skandalige titel is uit ’n tyd wat almal probeer vergeet nie, maar ’n kultuur wat opsigself net so Afrikaan is soos enige ander…

Ik ben een Afrikander is a group exhibition by South African artists under curatorship of Teresa Lizamore. Afrikaans identity is rooted in the need to confirm this continent as our homeland. The voice of new Afrikaans artists, poets and thinkers are heard all the more as the concept of an Afrikaner identity. This is not only a scandalous title from a time everyone would like to forget but also a culture which in itself is just as African as any other…

 

 

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(Photo: Exhibition at Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein)