ART EXHIBIT

Saturnine, Cosmos and Cigpix at the AVA

Venue: AVA, 35 Church St, Cape Town. Tel: (021) 424 7436.
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri: 10:00am to 5:00pm, Sat: 10:00am to 1:00pm
Duration: 15 Jun - 3 Jul 2009

In Saturnine, Connor Cullinan utilizes acrylic paintings and screen prints to explore the victim/victimizer relationships.  Stylistically, Cullinan applies Op Art devices to figurative painting; this unsettling visual effect creates a tension between a sense of intrigue and repulsion.

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Steve Bandoma will be exhibiting Cosmos in the Long Gallery. Cosmos includes an installation and new photographic works created while Bandoma was in Zurich. Bandoma born in the Democratic Republic of Congo interrogates politics, power and colonialism
 
Upstairs in the Artsstrip D Rooster makes an entrance with his first solo exhibition Cigpix.  Hundreds of ball point pen draws the size of playing cards line the gallery wall with obsessive mark making and fanciful explorations.

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