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ART EXHIBIT
Dark Side of the Moon
Venue: UCA Gallery, 46 Lower Main Rd, Observatory. Tel: (021)
447 4132.
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri: 10:00am - 5:00pm; Sat: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Duration: 1 - 24 Jul 2009
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A group exhibition of artists who choose to use traditional
media for expression in inventive and innovative ways, ‘exploring the
unknown’ so to speak. The artists featured will be Julia Mary Grey,
Wonder, Albert Coertse, Shani Nel, Colijn Strydom, Vusi Beauchamp, and
Conor Ralphs.
Since we never get to see the ‘dark side of the moon’ as the
moon’s rate of rotation has become (almost) synchronized with its orbit,
it has become synonymous with the unknown and unexplored places of ones
own imagination. The unknown factor exists and permeates everything but
that which cannot be explained and which is veiled from conventional
conscious knowledge.
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Certain artists, in the past and present, have always found
it necessary to explore this ‘other’, unknown/sub-conscious side of
themselves and their imagination, and in so doing have created works that
can be playful, fantastic or dark and ominous.
Being freed from the necessity of depicting the world in a
traditional naturalistic way by new forms of media like photography and
film, artists have been able to explore and offer new forms/shapes and
imaginary landscapes and in so doing find new ways of expressing the
subconscious world (which is another symbolic link/association that we
have given to the moon – the dream world) and fantasy worlds.
In dark side of the moon the selected artists all have this
quality of exploring and experimenting, be it visually or conceptually, by
using the traditional mediums in a new and exciting way, pushing the
boundaries of the imagination and giving us new insight as to what art can
potentially be or should be, perhaps, to test the limits of the
imagination.
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