September 29th, 2010
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29 September - 6 November 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
First shown at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg and rated as one of the best three exhibitions of 2009 by The Sunday Independent, Alastair Whitton’s Patmos and the War at Sea will be shown in Cape Town at iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art in October 2010. Arts writer Mary Corrigall has described the body of work as a series of “astute statements…about the relationship between language and imagery that challenge our expectations of photography.”
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September 1st, 2010
— Jacqueline Nurse
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1 - 25 September 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
In her latest body of work, Blight, Marlise Keith is concerned with the ways in which we use and live with “nourishing” metaphors.
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August 4th, 2010
— Alex Emsley
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4 – 28 August 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
Sondeval, Sandra Hanekom’s most recent body of work, is at its core a conflation of two things. On the one hand, it can be regarded as a significantly emotional reaction against old-school “fire and brimstone” Christianity of the kind preached during her childhood. However, it is simultaneously a homage to Christian art of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.
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June 1st, 2010
— Jacqueline Nurse
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JUNE/JULY 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
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May 5th, 2010
— Jacqueline Nurse
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5 - 29 May 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
Conceptualised as a walk-in graphic novel, The best thing since spilt milk takes as its narrative core that things that are really bad for you can also be very good for you and vice versa.
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April 1st, 2010
— Jacqueline Nurse
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7 - 30 April 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
In this body of work, Madelein Marincowitz explores objects passed down through generations of her family. However, dislocated from their original contexts the objects operate as mnemonic devices for a collective melancholy nostalgia.
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March 4th, 2010
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12 March - 3 April 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
iArt Gallery, 71 Loop Street
For Visitor (The Square), Grobler has made a selection from Visitor at the Irma Stern Museum in 2009. As most of the work is context specific, the new venue will re-define the visual dialogue.
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February 3rd, 2010
— Jacqueline Nurse
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2009; acrylic ink on paper
27 January – 24 February 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
This exhibition consists of a collection of drawings by Colijn Strydom, inspired by the artist’s obsessive response to Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Poppies in October”.
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December 2nd, 2009
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Walter Meyer, Colesburg Scrapyard (1996)
2 December 2009 - 13 January 2010
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
Wembley Square, Gardens, Cape Town
This season, iArt Gallery Wembley will show ten paintings by Walter Meyer that have never before been shown.
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November 11th, 2009
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11 - 27 November 2009
In this body of work, Theo Kleynhans explores the inter-relatedness of our shared experience on this planet by presenting fragments on the picture plane.
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October 30th, 2009
— Jacqueline Nurse
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30 October – 6 November 2009
Showing in a whistle-stop time frame at iArt Gallery Wembley, if you go down to the subway today is a collection of work that takes a brief, tongue-in-cheek look at the idea of the human animal.
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October 1st, 2009
— Jacqueline Nurse
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2 - 28 October 2009
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
Wembley Square, Gardens, Cape Town
This exhibition provides a retrospective view of Colbert Mashile’s work on paper, between 2004 and 2009.
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September 3rd, 2009
— Jacqueline Nurse
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3 - 23 September 2009
iArt Gallery Wembley: A Project Room for Contemporary Art
Wembley Square, Gardens, Cape Town
In this body of work Hindley responds to the influence of his time spent in Berlin. Read together, the paintings form a lilting, uneasy dialogue – a multi-faceted narrative that is as lyrical as it is unsettling.
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