South African Art Today Exhibition of 11 contemporary South African Artists

Fokke Simonszstraat 73 1017 TE Amsterdam www.artstable.eu

Uitnodiging

Ik heb het genoegen u uit te nodigen voor de feestelijke opening van de groepsexpositie
South African Art Today, waarop werk getoond zal worden van 11 Zuid Afrikaanse kunstenaars,

op zondag 28 september, 16:00 u
in galerie Art Stable

De tentoonstelling duurt  t.m. 16 november

Invitation

I am pleased to invite you to be present at the opening of the exhibition South African Art Today,
which will show works by 11 contemporary South African artists,

on Sunday. September 28th, at 4 pm
at the Art Stable Gallery

The works will be exhibited till November 16th.

Hans Mabelis

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	Anita Lategan Anita Kategan was born in 1956 in Lichtenburg and graduated in 1989 from the Pretoria Technikon, with distinctions in painting and jewellery design. From 1991 she lectured at the same institution (later renamed to Tshwane University of Technology, TUT). Since 2007 she works full time as an artist. Her works were exhibited at numerous solo- and group exhibitions in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Michigan (USA). In 2007 her work was shown at the 'Ubuntu' group exhibition in Amsterdam.
	Carina Claassens Carina Claassens was born and raised in South Africa, where she grew up on a wild life nature reserve. From 2000 to 2002 she has studied Fine and Applied Art at the Tswane University in Pretoria, with a main focus on Printmaking; Photography; Ceramics; Drawing and Art Theory. After living in Mozambique for some years, she recently moved to The Netherlands. Her main subject has to do with celebrating Female Forms in all its aspects, with figurative artworks in ceramics, paintings, drawings and etchings. Lately she has experimented with mixed media, Urban design and Video installations. Her preoccupation has shifted to documenting her own memories, using rope to tie them down…  so she may not forget: Who she is. Her artworks have been exhibited at several well-known institutions.
	Clifford Charles "Painting is an uninhabited space of not being - yet being. A contradictory and ironical motive: for the action of painting becomes an act of nothingness. Unbundled by the known. Active meditation and contemplation, not to defy or define - just being. Moving to a thoughtless moment of listening (to oneself), till one exhausts words. My South African lessons are many - the futility of ideological battles being only one. All this drew my art into an introspective gaze. Instead of being seduced by sentimental and melancholic images that reflect 'Post Apartheid' programmes, I gazed upon my own reflection. This 'talking to myself' became an attempt to assess my existing patterns of our thinking - a silent self-reflection, moving on to new plateaus."
	Danie de Wet Born in Bethal in 1944, Danie de Wet graduated from the Pretoria Technikon with a diploma in Higher Art Education in 1966. Only much later he went back to the Technikon to study painting, and went on to the University if Newcastle-upon-Tyne and at the Akademie der Bildende Künste, München. In 1993 he obtained a B.A. (Fine Arts) in painting at UNISA. Today, he is a Senior Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at the Pretoria Technikon and Head of Foundation Studies in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts. Amidst all the contrasting influences of his extensive formal education, de Wet developed his own particular, immediately recognisable, style of surrealism, strongly influenced by European Renaissance painting, the language and symbolism of which he regards as utterly meaningful for many modern observers. His mostly allegorical works are metaphors for particular personal states of mind, expressed through beauty and mystery. He is currently working on a Life Odyssey series, in which he highlights certain glimpses of a perceived journey through life. Danie de Wet has held two solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. In addition to private collections, he also has work in the Absa and Sasol collections.
	Justice Mokoena "I am thinking so loud whether to be or not to be… led to a collective loss of memory. Refusing to compromise knowledge in contrast to the notion of uncontaminated thinking, this moves ahead in time and space of any faculty. My work suggests an alternate space within which to position a rather disturbing personal experience. The excessive emotionalism and excitability that guides my activity at bringing about an act of anxiety to the mind and body of human’s reputation is quite playful. It’s just a mind’s game for me to help myself to learn and understand how love, mercy and peace relate to one another. I may wish to know or establish opinions and attitudes regarding my Individuality. African history has been erased to a point, where Identities are questioned and communities moved around. Some years ago we witnessed the shifting of politics in South Africa, which resulted in terms such as the Rainbow Nation. In 1997, President Thabo Mbeki coined the phrase “Those who have eyes let them see… African Renaissance is upon us. As we peer through the looking glass darkly, this may not be obvious. But it is upon us” We are facing a challenging task to build this African renaissance."
	Kgagelo Phiri I am Kgalalelo Phiri, 23 years old , B-Tech student in Fine Arts. Printmaking is what I do and I also did glass design. In printmaking I work with silkscreen and etching. I am highly influenced nature and the everyday paths of life. According to me and what I believe everything in life is defined by a line and shapes and repetition as some in life would all karma, what goes around comes around. My latest work is about the power of the mind and illustrates that
	Renier le Roux Renier le Roux graduated from the Technicon Pretoria with distinction in sculpture, drawing and painting and went on as part-time lecturer there. He participated in numerous group exhibitions in Pretoria and Johannesburg and won a number of awards (a.o. the Judges Award of the Sasol New Signatures Art Competition) At the moment, his main interest is in sculpture. Replicating common objects in unexpected materials, he draws attention to the exraordinary world of the ordinary.
	Runette Kruger Runette Kruger (1971) graduated cum laude from the Tshwane University of Technology in 1991 and has been extremely busy ever since, working as an art historian (she published, for example, about Piet Mondriaan) as well as an artist. She was drawn from the start to ceramics, moulding forms which vaguely resemble, but are not, pots and vases, thus exploring the tension between inside and outside. Of her current work she says: "I Explore the links between ceramics, De Stijl paintings, Mondrian’s writings and ideas, Delft, Eastern and Western philosophy. Tall organic shapes now have flat sections, decorated with Ottoman/Buddhist/Delft patterns; shapes are coiled and scraped. The finish is mat, with various hues of coloured under-glaze slips sprayed on in multiple layers. Unglazed. In my work I am trying to give form to the intangible as well as notions such as the fourth dimension as space, or as the "Eternal Now" of Eastern philosophy." In 2004 she was awarded first prize in the sculpture category at the National Ceramics Exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum.
	Moretse Moletsane Seretse Moletsane was born in Sowetho in May 1981. He studied Fine Arts at the former Pretoria Technikon. From 2002 untill 2005 he participated in a number of exhibitions, fashionshows and worked as a Printed image Technical assistant at the Tshwane University of Technology. In 2004 he produced commissioned work for women’s day and for Telkom’s corporate collection. Besides his work as a artist, Seretse is fashiondesigner for Feilpop.
	Zanele Muholi Muholi was born in Umlazi, Durban, in 1972 and lives in Johannesburg. Trained at the Market Photo Workshop, Muholi came to national attention in September 2004 with her exhibition Visual Sexuality at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Her work is without precedent in South Africa, where there are very few instances of black women openly portraying female same-sex practices. As a gender and sexual rights activist, and as a photographer, she confronts the notion that lesbian practices are alien to African cultures, and offers a radical break from stereotypical narratives about black female sexualities. She succeeds in transgressing the taboos surrounding black female same-sex practices because of her intimate relationships in these communities, negotiating the boundaries through trust and respect. Her photographs offer a view from the inside, a personal perspective on the challenges facing black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the townships and other communities. Muholi saw her work regularly published in magazines and participated in a number of conferences and exhibitions in South Africa( University of the Western Cape; University of Pretoria, Centre for African Studies, UCT) as well as abroad (International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, California, USA). She had a solo exhibition at the Vienna Kunsthalle project space, April 2006. Later that year her exhibition Only Half the Picture was presented in Galerie 32-34 in Amsterdam.