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’.