Exhibiting artists are: Francis Burger (ZA), Léa Lagasse (FR), Jelena Martinovic (CH), Chloe Reid (ZA) and Fabian Saptouw (ZA).
The Parking Gallery’s guest speaker for Wednesday the 16th of May is: Akiko Miki, Senior Curator at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
The event starts at 18:30
Address: VANSA Offices, Craftsman Centre, 5th floor, 289 Fox Street, City and Suburban, Johannesburg
Since joining the Palais de Tokyo in 2000, Miki has curated number of projects including those of Tobias Rehberger, Rivane Neuenschwander, Meschac Gaba, Navin Rawanchaikul, Henrik Håkansson, Allora & Calzadilla and Christian Marclay. She has a wide experience of working in international contexts as the Artistic Director of Yokohama Triennale 2011, Co-director of D2 Art Project, Guest Curator of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, as well as curated shows at major institutions such as: the Benesse Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan; the Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; and the Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria. Some further examples of her exhibitions are: TransCulture (1995 Venice Biennial) ; Taipei Biennial: Site of Desire (1998); Nobuyoshi Araki Retrospective (2005) ; Chalo! India (2008); Naoshima, archipel d’art et d’architecture (2009); and French Window (2011).
The visible project, initiated and supported by Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation and
Fondazione Zegna, is pleased to announce the presentation at the CHR – Center for Historical Reenactments in Johannesburg. On the 18th of May, starting at 6:30 pm, a talk around the visible platform will take place as well as a roundtable involving a group of South African artists and collectives, some of whom are already part of the visible network. The event, curated by Matteo Lucchetti, co-curator of the visible project, and Gabi Ngcobo, member of the curatorial advisory board, aims to present the project to the local audience engaging in a conversation around some of the common issues and topics for art practicioners that operate in a constant dialogue with the social sphere.
IF YOU WANT COFFEE, YOU CAN HAVE COFFEE, BUT YOU HAVE TO BRING “SOMETHING” IN EXCHANGE:
This “something” can take the form of a story/book/photograph/
newspaper cut-out/new flavor of coffee/ shoes/hat/ornament/gadget/ poster/dvd/mixtape/… (drawings, artworks, doodles are not accepted)
The Parking Gallery’s exhibition in May is themed around books and text. Exhibiting artists are: Francis Burger (ZA), Léa Lagasse (FR), Jelena Martinovic (CH), Chloe Reid (ZA) and Fabian Saptouw (ZA).
The opening will be on Wednesday 9 May, when our guest speaker is:
Jasper Walgrave
(see here for more details)
The event start at 18:30
Address: VANSA Offices, Craftsman Centre, 5th floor, 289 Fox Street, City and Suburban, Johannesburg
The Parking Gallery speaker for Wednesday 9 May is: Jasper Walgrave
Arts administrator Jasper Walgrave, a Belgian based in South Africa since 2003, is going to be speaking about an project concept concerning the Cape Town Stadium, built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, involving architecture, activism and documentary film.
From 2003 until 2006, Walgrave worked as project coordinator for the Flemish-South African project on Community Arts Centre at the Department of Arts and Culture. Since 2007 he is the Head of Pro Helvetia, the Southern African liaison office of the Swiss Arts Council. Since graduating in History, Political Sociology and development studies in Belgium, he has built up an extensive amount of experience in management and administration of arts projects and arts-related structures, mostly in Portugal, Belgium, Mozambique and South Africa. His primary focus has been on the exchange between and within Western Europe and Southern Africa.
At the same time, we will also be opening our new exhibition, which is themed around books and texts.
Images from Léa Lagasse
Exhibiting artists are: Francis Burger (ZA), Léa Lagasse (FR), Jelena Martinovic (CH), Chloe Reid (ZA) and Fabian Saptouw (ZA).
An old philosophical thought experiment about reality, presence and perception.
‘But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [...] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [...] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.’ (George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710)
If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no one there to hear it, but there’s a tape player recording the event…(David E Romm, Speculative speculation, 1996)
A quick Google image search reveals:
Maurizio Cattelan, If a Tree Falls in the Forest and There Is No One Around It, Does It Make A Sound?, 1998
Ted Miliband on labour issues
Tree-Falling-Design, from www.iwasntthere.com
Context
Michaelis Galleries (Cape Town)
16 Feb 2012 – 07 Mar 2012
Curated by Michaelis lecturer Fabian Saptouw, Context draws together artists who use the book-object as a conceptual point of departure for the exploration of the printed text. The artists’ projects engage the history, value and institutional importance afforded to the book-object. The works on display grapple with the materiality and influence of the idea of the book and the way the notion of the book is related to artistic practice.
Traditional approaches to the production and preservation of books will be artistically explored through loans from public and private collections, including the UCT Rare Books library. Other pieces on display include book-printing equipment such as movable type and printer’s quoins, which will be exhibited alongside the art of prominent and emerging artists.
Participants:
Fritha Langerman, Colin Richards, Pippa Skotnes, Phillip Raath, Chloe Reid, James King, Tanya Barben, Morne Visagie and Fabian Saptouw
