Brodie/Stevenson invite you to - THIS IS YOUR WORLD IN WHICH WE GROW, AND WE WILL GROW TO HATE YOU, a solo exhibition by Michael MacGarry.
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The exhibition runs until 19 March 2010.
Brodie/Stevenson
Ground floor, 373 Jan Smuts Avenue
Craighall
Johannesburg.
Telephone +27 (0)11 326 0034
Hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am to 5.30pm, and Saturday from 9.30am to 3pm.
Brodie/Stevenson is pleased to present its first exhibition of 2010: In the Red/In the Black, an exhibition by Sean Slemon comprising installation, drawing and prints.
The exhibition will open on Thursday 14 January, 6-8pm. The gallery is open from Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am to 5.30pm, and Saturday from 9.30am to 3pm.
Brodie/Stevenson
Ground floor, 373 Jan Smuts Avenue
Craighall
Johannesburg
Telephone +27 (0)11 326 0034
Fax +27 (0)11 326 0041
Brodie/Stevenson is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Anton Kannemeyer.
Kannemeyer will show a variety of original drawings and editioned prints, including drawings from the artist’s sketchbooks and works selected from his extensive archive of rare, older prints.
The exhibition will comprise two bodies of work: politically orientated pieces, which take a highly satirical approach to historical and contemporary situations in Africa, and a selection of more personal works, focusing on self-portraiture as well as idiosyncratic characters in whom Kannemeyer has taken an interest.
The exhibition runs from 12 November until 15 December.
Brodie/Stevenson
Ground floor, 373 Jan Smuts Avenue
Craighall
Johannesburg.
Email info@brodiestevenson.com
Telephone +27 (0)11 326 0034
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In his latest body of work Conrad Botes takes the title of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s famous novel as a starting point to explore the intricacies of guilt and complicity and their relationship to violence.
These are recurrent obsessions for Botes, whose previous solo show, Cain and Abel (at Michael Stevenson in January 2009), reflected on the origins of violence by invoking the very first tale of murder as related in the Bible and Qu’ran. Botes uses archetypal stories embedded in the psyche as a framework or prism through which to explore political and social issues that are of relevance today. These allegorical works convey a pervasive sense of horror, a feeling the artist has described as ‘like shrapnel under the skin’. Works on the exhibition will take the form of wall drawings, large-scale reverse glass paintings, sculpture and installation.
The exhibition runs from 13 August - 5 September 2009
Brodie/Stevenson
Ground floor, 373 Jan Smuts Avenue
Craighall
Johannesburg
Hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am to 5.30pm, and Saturday from 9.30am to 3pm.
Email info@brodiestevenson.com
Telephone +27 (0)11 326 0034
‘SCUSE US WHILE WE KISS DA SKY (AS IN WE’VE HIT THE CEILING) - a solo exhibition by AVANT CAR GUARD
Exhibition opens - 18h00 Thursday 4 June 2009
For the solo exhibition at Brodie/Stevenson AVANT CAR GUARD will present large-scale paintings, sculptures, editioned prints, video and installation.
AVANT CAR GUARD are a Johannesburg-based three member visual art collective, exhibiting and authoring as a singular artist. They have produced three publications on their work, titled Volume I, Volume II and Volume III respectively, and have exhibited at a national and international level for several years, with their production being based on a conceptual, self-reflexive and satirical approach to the art world – it’s markets, practitioners as well as the process of creating itself. This is manifest across multidisciplinary means; through photography, sculpture, performance, multiples, installation and painting.
Brodie/Stevenson
373 Jan Smuts Avenue
Craighall
2196
Johannesburg, South Africa
T +27 (0)11 326 0034
F +27 (0)11 326 0041
Brodie/Stevenson presents Self/Not-Self, a two-part curated exhibition that explores modes of self-representation across a range of contemporary art practices.
Bearing in mind critical debates about the symbolic violence that often accompanies attempts to speak on behalf of others, this exhibition asks questions around what it means to ‘speak for oneself’ in our times.
The exhibition considers concepts of self-portraiture and the role of the artist/author. While it is undoubtedly reductive to interpret all work as autobiographical, the significance of how artists ‘write themselves into’ their work is fundamental to contemporary art practice. This ‘writing in’ may occur in various ways including performance, the gestural mark, the trace, the alter-ego, autobiography (both real and fictitious), confession and absence. The two parts of this exhibition focus on two central modes.
The first exhibition (19 February – 21 March) explores direct means of self-representation, looking at diverse works that utilise an embodied version of ‘writing in’. Aspects of this approach include the present body, corporeal traces and other markers of presence, and the self as subject, artist or protagonist. While embodied self-representation possesses an immediacy that speaks of individual agency, such declarations are also haunted by the potential that these bodies may be (symbolically) ‘owned’ by their viewers. Embodied representation is at once empowering and threatening.
Artists on the first show include Serge Alain, Pieter Hugo, Lunga Kama, Anton Kannemeyer, Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi, Tracy Payne, Richard Penn, Berni Searle, Lerato Shadi and Penny Siopis.
The second exhibition (26 March – 25 April) looks at indirect or ‘absent’ self-representational approaches, where strategies of surrogacy, projection and alternative personae are employed. Aspects of this approach include the object as stand-in for the self, self as alter-ego, self as artwork, as another’s body, and as text. These approaches contain an inherent sense of remove, and allow for a mode of autobiography through a third-person or object. In their ‘looking outwards’ to the world, these artists offer a challenge to the very idea of a coherent or contained self.
Artists on the second show include Avant Car Guard, Conrad Botes, Wim Botha, Reshma Chhiba, Paul Edmunds, Simon Gush, Nicholas Hlobo, Lawrence Lemaoana, Michael MacGarry, Athi-Patra Ruga, Wilhelm Saayman and Sober and Lonely.
Together, this pair of exhibitions offers an extended exploration of the productive tension that exists between various modes of self-representation, and the implications of such practice within larger debates around representation.
The exhibition will run until 21 March 2009
Brodie/Stevenson
ground floor, 373 Jan Smuts Avenue
Craighall
Johannesburg
info@brodiestevenson.com
Telephone +27 (0)11 326 0034
Fax +27 (0)11 326 0041.
Hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am to 5.30pm, and Saturday from 9.30am to 3pm.
