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TRANSFORMASIE/ TRANSFORMATION by contemporary Jeweller INGE MARAIS

An investigation of materials...
OPENING FRIDAY 11 January 2008 @ 18h00
Open: Saturday & Sunday 11-2
and Monday-Tuesday 11-5
for information 083 256 1170
“In my practical experiments I investigate, through various interactions with material and repetitive meditative actions, the transformation processes that occur in parallel with the transformation of materials. In this way traditional perceptions of value related to time, material and experience is also re-evaluated. The transformation of the material becomes a metaphor for the transformation that the manipulator herself experience during the creative process.”

Fever Jubilee

Julia Rosa Clark is inviting all interested parties to meet her for tea/beer/a chat and to collaborate on Fever Jubilee at blank projects. Call her (083 4392854)to meet at a time convenient to you...
otherwise join us for the closing on Thursday 3 January 2008 between 18h00 and 20h00 to view the final outcome of this festive installation.

TWO EXHIBITIONS OPENING AT BLANK ON THURSDAY 13th DECEMBER 2007

FEVER JUBILEE an installation by Julia Rosa Clark
Opening @ 18h00 on Thursday 13th December
• open every Thursday from 18h00-20h00 and by appointment
• ends 5th January 2008
FEVER JUBILEE, is a new installation and performance by Julia Rosa Clark. The artist will turn the gallery into a recuperative grotto-like space. The audience will be invited to just come and relax in this contemporary urban folley, or to grow the space from the inside, with the help of the artist. It is a festive holiday piece: a place in which the artist will spend some quality time resting, with friends and family.

The artist says, "2007 seemed like a long and difficult year for many people close to me. It is finally drawing to a close and it is time to take stock and clear out surplus". A jubilee marks the passing of a period of time, emancipation and a celebration. In this case, the artist celebrates sensuality, colour, music and a move away from sadness and fear. It is a corollary to HYPOCRITE'S LAMENT, her solo show earlier this year ( http://www.artjoao.co.za/exhibitions/exhib2007_clark.html). Whereas Lament was, in part, driven by a response to cycles of addiction and destruction, the artist is now excited by growth and restoration. As is often her process, Julia will use leftovers, clutter, collections of bits and pieces and lots of paper to make up the space.

2) At blank contemporary: WORKS ON PAPER
This group show by 10 well-known SA artists opens Thursday 13th December at 18h00



• Exhibition closes end of January 2008 (open by appointment)
Sanell Aggenbach, Wayne Barker, Jacques Coetzer, Jeanne Hoffman, Lindele Magunya, Thando Mama, Andrzej Nowicki, Linda Stupart, Johan Thom & Kemang Wa Lehulere

(All works on sale for R500 – R5000)

Gugulective

Untitled
Opens: 8 November 2007
Ends: 30 November 2007



Gugulective is an artist collective consisting of 7 members. The name Gugulective derives from the Xhosa word for pride (gugu). Although founded and developed in Gugulethu in 2006, artists from Langa and Khayelitsha have joined the group in the meantime. Due to a number of organisational and financial obstacles, the collective could only take up its practical work in the form of creative projects this year. Two exhibitions were put together in Gugulethu as well as a painting workshop with the local youth.
Gugulective is clearly not aiming at reactionary intervention, but is born out of the need for creative projects in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Art is seen as a means to promote development and create social cohesion within communities. Unfortunately, it is often neglected when crime and economic troubles are prevalent in everyday life. Many township schools for instance do not teach art any longer, and extracurricular activities in this field are largely lacking, too.
To date, their work have been realised in Gugulethu. Untitled is a group exhibition working in and with the blank projects space to create work which will create a conversation between two locations (blank projects in Cape Town and Kwa Mlamli in Gugulethu). The installation piece will consist of tables and chairs taken from Mlami's shebeen and installed at blank projects. Along with the chairs and tables, items of clothing will be installed.

“We aim to challenge the pre-conceived visual representation of shebeens in institutional and gallery spaces. In recent years, the shebeen has been portrayed as a negative and loud space, covered with wall paper, filled with people sitting on beer crates and lacking aesthetics and recreational values.
This piece is symbolic of absence in many ways: the absence of black artists and audience in gallery spaces, and also the fact that mobility structures hinder accessibility to institutional spaces and the city centre itself for individuals residing in Khayelitsha and Gugulethu.”

blank gains weight...

blank is expanding!!

We are opening a second space this month (as from 7 November).
In the room adjacent to blank, we will host a retrospective of past projects. The first show is simply titled: 'blank projects: selected work 2005 - 2007'.

Work by the following artists will be showcased:Nomthunzi Mashalaba, Pierre Fouche, Kerim Seiler, Abrie Fourie/Ella Ziegler, Gabi Ngcobo, ChristianNerf/Douglas Gimberg, Jackson Hlungwani and Barend de Wet.

This space will also be used by our residency artists and for blank admin.

Abrie Fourie & Ella Ziegler

See2 by Abrie Fourie & Ella Ziegler opens this Wednesday 17 October. The Show ends on Friday 3 November.



Image # 1

Unknown man climbing down the façade of Dianahof, Sunnyside, Pretoria, August 2007
Digital photograph

Image # 2

Untitled
Hyena Tail bought at a muti shop

Image # 3

Invisibility by mirrors

Mirrors and stoneware potters clay