Turkana Boy is the common name for KNM-WT 15000, the nearly complete skeleton of a 12-year-old (or possibly 9-year-old) Homo erectus who died 1.6 million years ago. It was discovered by Kamoya Kimeu, a member of Richard Leakeys’ palaeontological expedition to Lake Rudolf Read more – ‘Turkana Boy’.
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’.
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’.
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 »’.
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’.
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’.
