Emma Nourse, Cave I, 2014. Wood, Brass, glass beads. Courtesy the artist and Brundyn+, Cape Town
Room 1
EMMA NOURSE
Pause
4 September – 18 October 2014
Emma Nourse’s first solo exhibition since graduating from the Michaelis School of Fine Art will be exhibited at the BRUNDYN+ gallery. Titled Pause, this body of work continues Nourse’s preoccupation with representations of environmental entropy and the deepening influence of human interference.
The works on exhibition poignantly depict crumbling glaciers and melting ice sheets in stages of depletion. Once thought to be inexhaustible, the degradation of our natural resources now brings into question our own existence and the advancement of the human project. Though this body of work illustrates the fragility and vulnerability of our natural environment, it also pays homage to its awe-inspiring strength and enduring will. […]
Chris Van Eeden, Radiant Cool, 2014. Umbrella, mirror ball, knife, mixed media. Courtesy the artist and Brundyn+, Cape Town
Room 2
CHRIS VAN EEDEN
Open
4 September – 25 October 2014
OPEN is an exhibition of new paintings, sculpture, video, found objects and things on top of other things by Chris van Eeden. Expanding on the exhibition’s conceptual framework, the artist posits:
I’m opening up. I’m not convinced. I’ve worked over some theories. This is my take, and we’re approaching a limit, possibly.
Edit.
Who knows. This theatre seems too small, baby; it needs a certain je ne sais quoi or at least more something, yeah. Global it may well be, but we’re stifled by our expanding horizons (u-turn now 2.9 miles from your current location). What is this place? There’s only one left: the center of nowhere. […]
Sidy Diallo, Points et Iténeraire 1, 2013.Acrylic and pastel on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Brundyn+, Cape Town
Room 3
SIDY DIALLO
Points et Itinéraires
4 September – 25 October 2014
Sidy Diallo will showcase his first solo exhibition Points et Itinéraires at the BRUNDYN Gallery. Points et Itinéraires meaning Points and Itineraries in English, alludes to movements to different parts of the world, continent, country or landscape and the activities that one engages in when in those spaces. The exhibition is an extension of key ideas that Diallo has explored in the past couple of years.
Among these are his fascination with the future of Africa and how it has been impacted on by global politics and economics. At the heart of this is his concern for the “African brain drainâ€, a phenomenon that sees numerous Africans migrating to Europe and America for education purposes and unfortunately never returning. Diallo perceives this as a loss for the continent, one that obviously requires the skills attained by these graduates that could potentially aid in the economic development of the continent. This insistence on returning to home is not a means used to prescribe and restrict the livelihoods of African scholars, but is rather a call to diversify the knowledge and skills found on the continent. […]
Video Room
ZINA SARO-WIWA
Phyllis
4 September – 25 October 2014
The film Phyllis by Zina Saro-Wiwa, takes its premise from Nollywood, the second largest film industry in the world, that has garnered much attention on the African and global stage. A medium made for and played on the small screen, these films are shown in private homes, hair salons, intercity buses and makeshift open air public parlours across the continent. According to the artist:
Nollywood is, in a sense, like soap opera on steroids. It’s what should have been on television, but was forced out into the open market to fend for itself, and it has mutated into this hybrid B-movie/soap operatic form where the films are often 3-4 hours long, hyperbolic, melodramatic but made for TV. […]
Brundyn+
ORO AFRICA Building (1st Floor)
170 Buitengracht Street,
Cape Town, 8001
South Africa
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Saturday: 10h00 – 14h00