MICHAELIS GALLERIES 24 September 2011 – 22 October 2011 Threshold implies an upper limit to tolerance levels as climate change shifts the balance long established in ecosystems. The exhibition, as its title suggests, engages the premise that not only are the climatic conditions of the planet at a tipping point, but that we need to [...] Read more – ‘Threshold – climate change and environmental concern’.
Samuel Hendricks 2009 Archival ink on paper 1950 x 1120 (Assistant: V. Cowling) Hiératiques, frontaux, glorieux. Nulle aspérité, nulle transfiguration de la réalité ne vient entacher la confrontation directe avec l’appareil photographique lorsque Gavin Younge, le temps d’une série de clichés, cristallise des portraits d’hommes noirs sur fond blanc au sein [...] Read more – ‘Nofound_photofair. Garage Turenne, Paris. 11-14 novembre 2011’.
EXPOSITION Après avoir, le temps de la manifestation nationale Monuments et Animaux, colonisé divers sites à travers la France, certaines bêtes hivernent à Paris. Elles viennent peupler une forêt mystérieuse implantée au sein de la Conciergerie. En s’aventurant dans cet espace sauvage, le public fera d’étranges rencontres. Au gré de sentiers à thème – l’allée [...] Read more – ‘Bêtes Off’.
The Foster Gang forms part of a visual art research project centred on the historical stratification and hybridity of a post-colonial landscape known as the Cradle of Humankind. The project includes drawings, paintings, sculptures and photography relating to en-situ research at Swartkrans, Cooper’s, and Plovers Lake (three of the Cradle of Humankind sites) under the initial guidance of [...] Read more – ‘Cradle Snatcher’.
The Foster Gang forms part of a visual art research project centred on the historical stratification and hybridity of a post-colonial landscape known as the Cradle of Humankind. The project includes drawings, paintings, sculptures and photography relating to en-situ research at Swartkrans, Cooper’s, and Plovers Lake (three of the Cradle of Humankind sites) under the [...] Read more – ‘Cradle Snatcher’.
Excerpt: I Feel Therefore I Think Goliath Extending trauma studies into new territory, Jill Bennett proposes a philosophically informed way of engaging politically with traumatic feeling in visual art. She does not present a new philosophical theory of affect, but her mapping of observations from trauma studies onto Gilles Deleuze’s perspectives on art and thought [...] Read more – ‘‘Forces Favourites’ – part of « Deep Skin »’.
deepskin7works Looped video showing Quagga Project; Gilets de Sauvetage; Natives to Police; Rooiland series; 28 series; Guns R Us; Daniel van Wyk. Prices and info from Nathalie Miltat (contact@lanoiregalerie.fr) Read more – ‘View QuickTime movie of « DEEP SKIN »’.
Par Nathalie MILTAT Le travail de Gavin Younge pose la question de la représentation de la violence mais aussi des traumatismes qui en découlent, et qui traversent toute l’histoire de son pays, l’Afrique du Sud. Dans quelle mesure les arts visuels peuvent-ils matérialiser les blessures physiques et psychiques, l’altération des lieux et des choses, et [...] Read more – ‘La Noire Galerie présente “Deep Skin” par Gavin Younge’.
Resistance Register « Marlene Dumas – 1976 » Gavin Younge, 2009 Serigraphie sur papier coton, 594 x 840 Originally produced in the mid-1970s at the time of political unrest following renewed attacks on the Black Trades Union movement, this series called on artists to ‘resist’. The series included Bruce Campbell-Smith, Nial Kramer, Michael Oblowitz, Paul Stopforth, Rosemary [...] Read more – ‘Resistance Register (Marlene Dumas)’.
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 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 [...] Read more – ‘Deep Skin’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘Deep Skin – Rooiland series’.
“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 [...] Read more – ‘Prosthesis – Le Cloître des Billettes, 24 rue des Archives, Paris. May – June 2007’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘SpierContemporary – Johannesburg Art Gallery. January – March 2008’.
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: [...] Read more – ‘A la Claire Fontaine’.
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 with Art [...] Read more – ‘(Re)-Connaître l’Afrique’.
