Deep Skin à Cosmopolis, Nantes. 17 juin - 12 juillet - info: Nathalie MILTAT E-mail: contact@lanoiregalerie.com Tél : 00 33 1 42 39 17 66 Samuel Hendricks. Gavin Younge/Vanessa Cowling 2009 Deep par Maud de la Forterie (extrait du catalogue) Aux confins de la perception et du ressenti, les œuvres de Gavin Younge sillonnent les blessures traumatiques d’une Afrique du Sud en pleine mutation sans pour autant...

  Rooiland series - Nongoloza, 2009, Stencil on calf-skin, 980x800 The discourse of criminality in the Western Cape is suffused with the mythology of the Numbers. In the absence of written texts, researchers have had to rely on oral history. According to Jonny Steinberg, members of the 27s and 28s offer different explanations of the origin of their prison gangs. Steinberg, who interviewed gang members serving...

Commissioned by the Cape Town City Council. Collaborative work with Wilma Cruise. Unveiled by World Mayor, Helen Zille on the 24 September 2008. The memorial comprises eleven granite blocks. Two are placed on a raised plinth on the south west corner of church square close to the Iziko Slave Lodge. A further nine are grouped in a tight grid close to the Slave Tree plaque. Each block is 80 centimetres square....

Commissioned for the new ConventionTower building on Cape Town’s foreshore, Olduvai stands three stories high above the traffic on the Heerengracht. The title refers to the 5000 km long Rift Valley in Africa. The Olduvai Gorge has been a rich source of anthropological discovery, especially relating to our hominid ancestors. Olduvai attests to human endeavour, global commerce and travel. The sculpture is...

“La Noire Galerie has the pleasure of introducing to the Parisian public the work of Gavin Younge, an internationally renowned South African artist. Drawing from his experience of a society moulded by violence, Gavin Younge denounces that violence and analyses the social, political and cultural problems that it generates. The recurring use of vellum, a natural organic material, to wrap his sculptures, suggests...

Two Democracies consists of a vellum-covered chaise longue onto which a looped video image is projected. The form of the chaise longue references the psychiatrist’s couch and draws attention to the somatic states of longing, belonging, human frailty and notions of health and well-being. The vellum is sutured into place as an analogy for surgical procedures and as a metaphor for healing. The image consists...

Salles Jean-Hélion, Issoire. 5 July – 28 September 2008 Curated by Estienne Blécon, the exhibition profiles a projection by Gavin Younge (Curating the Waves) and installations by French artists Sagot+Becquimin (La Cellule), Sylvander, Fend and Everaert. Curating the Waves is a meditation on African wars and the persistence of memory.  Four distinct sites are evoked: the private swimming pool as a cypher...

En partenariat avec Art Actuel, la Ville de Levallois présente, à l’Escale, l’exposition dévoile en trois parcours, que la création contemporaine africaine, loin du cliché d’un certain artisanat de pacotille, a su s’approprier tous les fondamentaux de l’art actuel : abstraction et conceptualisation, engagement social et politique, nouveaux supports et installations. In partnership...