TJORTS!/CHEERS!
Marna Hattingh - Die wêreld is alles
Marlise Keith - Hens-Op!
John Murray - Opdrifsels (Jetsam)
Tina Jensen - Pencil Test: Brunette (Detail)
Liza Grobler - Bubbly botteltjies blou
Vivien Kohler - Act Two: The Ascent
Vivien Kohler - Faithfull in the little
Sandile Mhlongo - Chill
Sandile Mhlongo - On the train ride
THE AVA
in partnership with Spier
invites you to the opening of three exhibitions
TJORTS! /CHEERS!
Curated by Marna Hattingh and Liza Grobler,
Is a visual conversation between acclaimed and award-winning poet Danie Marais and participating visual artists Marna Hattingh, Tina Jensen, Marlise Keith, John Murray and Liza Grobler.
Opening Introduction by Danie Marais
GIVEN TO FLY
Vivien Kohler
RECENT WORKS
Sandile Mhlongo
Opening at 6 pm
Monday, 16 January 2012
Exhibition closes on
Friday 10 February 2012 at 13:00
Tjorts! /Cheers! In the Main gallery is an exhibition inspired by a single unpublished poem, Tjorts! By Danie Marais. It summarise living and working in Cape Town in the twenty first century. The direct and personal nature of drawing finds a resonance with the personal nature of Marais’ work. In this text Marais – whose work often conjures up strong visual associations- maps a space overtly familiar to all the participants (and also to most of the viewers).
Each artist responds to the text in a series of drawings. The drawings are associative rather than descriptive, and artists were encouraged to respond to the text in a range of media. Executions therefore vary from work on paper to site-specific spatial constructions. Artists also circulated some of the drawings in progress and responded to each other’s interpretations a deliberate effort to find synergies and stimulate ongoing dialogue.
Given to Fly is Vivien Kohler’s much anticipated first Solo exhibition at The AVA Gallery is sponsored by the National Arts Council of South Africa. This body of work negotiates the human urge to excel, the ability to control the trajectory of one’s life, and the social dynamics that hinder the realisation of childhood dreams. Kohler’s mixed media works create tensions through the illusionist approach to painting and the tactile application of sculptural components.
Sandile Mhlongo presents his recent paintings in the Artstrip. Mhlongo’s paintings capture a sense of his environment. A sense articulate and expressed through colour, a strain of lilac highlighted by a tiredness of blue weaves through the paintings as they negotiate the colour of poverty.
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