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ART EXHIBIT
Twenty Artists|Twenty Portraits
Venue: UCA Gallery, 46 Lower Main Rd, Observatory. Tel: (021)
447 4132.
Gallery Hours: Tue - Fri: 10:00am - 5:00pm; Sat: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Duration: 17 Dec 2008 - 24 Jan 2009
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Twenty Artists |Twenty Portraits
is a dynamic group exhibition, showcasing work by established and emerging
local artists. The artworks in this salon style summer show range from
traditional to more conceptual approaches to the genre across a range of
media.
Whereas some of the portraits (such as Lionel
Smit’s Chris Divided) are of potentially recognisable, yet probably
unknown, individuals, the identities of the subjects in many of the other
works have remained deliberately obscured or secondary to metaphorical
emphasis and societal commentary.
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Gabrielle Raaff’s delicate, lyrical watercolour
portraits Returning 1-4, and the veiled and blindfolded figures in
Christopher Slack’s Virgin in Paradise and Julia Teale’s Annunciation are
of particular interest in this regard.
Though many of the works are figurative paintings
of individual subjects, Kim Gurney’s Disinheritance, depicting a series of
24 chromosomes related to a hereditary disease, and Robyn Cedras’s
sculptural installation Just as useless as the box it came in, mark less
traditional approaches to the tension between individual and societal
identity.
Other artists include Norman O'Flynn, Jacqui Stecher, Wonder, Rebecca
Townsend, Varenka Paschke and Christian Toujours.Work
by students from Julia Teale’s Spencer Street Studios in Saltriver will
also be on show.
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