http://www.gavinyounge.com Recent Work Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:47:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.gavinyounge.com/forces-favourites-part-of-%c2%ab-deep-skin-%c2%bb/current-and-recent-exhibitions 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) http://www.gavinyounge.com/view-quicktime-movie-of-deep-skin/current-and-recent-exhibitions  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 ... http://www.gavinyounge.com/la-noire-galerie-presente-deep-skin-par-gavin-younge/current-and-recent-exhibitions 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 ... http://www.gavinyounge.com/resistance-register-marlene-dumas/current-and-recent-exhibitions 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 [caption id="attachment_67" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Samuel Hendricks. Gavin Younge/Vanessa Cowling 2009"][/caption] Deep par Maud de la Forterie (extrait du catalogue) Aux confins de la perception et du ressenti, les œuvres de Gavin ... http://www.gavinyounge.com/deep-skin-2/current-and-recent-exhibitions   [caption id="attachment_58" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Rooiland series - Nongoloza, 2009, Stencil on calf-skin, 980x800"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.gavinyounge.com/deep-skin-rooiland-series/current-and-recent-exhibitions 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 ... http://www.gavinyounge.com/the-cape-town-slavery-memorial/site-specific-installations 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 ... http://www.gavinyounge.com/olduvai/site-specific-installations “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 ... http://www.gavinyounge.com/prosthesis-le-cloitre-des-billettes-24-rue-des-archives-paris-may-june-2007/current-and-recent-exhibitions 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 ... http://www.gavinyounge.com/spiercontemporary-johannesburg-art-gallery-january-march-2008/current-and-recent-exhibitions