NEXXUS
17.08.23 - 28.09.23
Caroline Sohie
‘Space Entangled’
168cm(h) x 88cm(w)
Unique Giclée Print on Watercolour Paper with hand painting
2023
R12,500(excl. VAT) Unframed
'Space Entangled'
Drawing is used by Caroline Sohie to engage with complexity, tracing tangible and intangible relations, betweenelements and territories in space and time. It is used as a medium for exploration and reflection, creating a depthof field assumed through a subjective point of view.Inspired by chronophotography, Space Entangled starts with tracing still-motion pictures extracted from the videorecorded by the artist’s first exploration of the AVA Gallery space. The spatial attributes are expanded, extrapolatedand deconstructed into a series of rhythms and entangled elements in perpetual motion.Overlaying layers of meaning, lines and surfaces fold; foreground turns into background, voids and solids arebroken and reformed again into a new fragmentary order. In between the debris are spaces that are unseen. In thisinvisible space, the drawing mediates a new world of observation, ideas, interrogation and possibility.This collapsed world is released from its inherent structural order and constraints, unravelling a new spectacle.The objects, volumes, lines and surfaces act in a performative environment, unleashing new realities and the potentialof renewal in a speculative space.
NEXXUS is a collaborative exploration between poets, visual artists, musicians, a composer and architect. The creative platform draws its name from the participatory act of connection between the artists as well as the causal relationship between the artworks. Voice and sound reverberate in the visual, in turn translated through the medium of space, and echoed in human connection. The cross-fertilisation between creative practices, enables the binding of concepts, knowledges, languages into a new existence.
Find out more: Link in bio.
@nexxus_collab
@carolinesohie
@spierartstrust
@westerncapegov
NEXXUS
17.08.23 - 28.09.23
Sonya Rademeyer
‘seemingly sonic’
70cm(h) x 50 cm(w)
Pen drawing on Artistico Fabriano 300gms
2020 – 2023
R5 500 (excl. VAT) Unframed
NEXXUS is a collaborative exploration between poets, visual artists, musicians, a composer and architect. The creative platform draws its name from the participatory act of connection between the artists as well as the causal relationship between the artworks. Voice and sound reverberate in the visual, in turn translated through the medium of space, and echoed in human connection. The cross-fertilisation between creative practices, enables the binding of concepts, knowledges, languages into a new existence.
Find out more: Link in bio.
@nexxus_collab
@sonyarademeyer
@spierartstrust
@westerncapegov
@cityofct
#NEXXUS #collborativeexchange #artcollaboration #culturalconnection #performanceart #artperformances #visualartexhibtion #crossingdivides #diversity #diverseculturalconnection #fragmentation # KingdomoftheNetherlands #embassyoftheKingdomoftheNetherlands #AVAgallery #capetownart #TUTCreativeResearchLab
#southafrica #capetownsouthafrica #art #artwork #painting #installation #video #photography #ava #southafricanart
SASOL NEW SIGNATURES ART COMPETITION 2022
‘Art Beyond Imagination’ - The annual Sasol New Signatures Art Competition, established by the Association of Arts Pretoria, is open to all South African artists over 18 years who have not yet held a solo exhibition. Being the longest-running competition of its kind in South Africa, Sasol New Signatures plays a pivotal role in unearthing new South African talent and providing a platform from which emerging artists can launch their artistic careers. Artists can submit up to 2 artworks in all artistic mediums.
Submissions for Sasol New Signatures 2022 will be accepted at several collection points across the country, amongst which the AVA Gallery, on Tuesday, 7 June and Wednesday, 8 June 2022.
Pick up your entry forms at the AVA or apply online now.
For more information please follow the link in Bio.
@sasolsa
#artwork #southafrica #capetownsouthafrica #painting #installation #video #photography #ava #performanceart
TEXTURES AT THE AVA:
‘Location’ in the Long Gallery.
The guiding premise of the exhibition is that of memory as a site of study. How do we come to remember ourselves, and in that process of remembering how do we make ourselves? This notion of the 'making of ourselves' is prioritised in this exhibition.
Collage, understood here as 'a collection or combination of various things', is our mode of investigating identity-making and place-making in the works of the artists in the exhibition. This 'making of ourselves' takes the physical and the metaphorical 'making' into consideration. Modes of remembering and 're-memory' are also investigated in how the materials and media are engaged with and used in the artists' processes of making. This exhibition aims to serve as a prompt, or a gesture, into the processes of the 'making of ourselves', and the study of memory. - Curated by Lesole Tautswala and Shakes Mbolekwana
On display until the 09.06.22
Detail of Vanessa Tembane
‘Os filhos da água II'
(The children in the water II)’ 2021
Acrylic and digital print on triple
Thread Fabric
150cm x 100cm
R12000 (incl. VAT)
Find out more: Link in bio.
@vanessa_tembane
@shakesdollasign
@westerncapegov
@cityofct
#artwork #southafrica #capetownsouthafrica #painting #installation #video #photography #opening #ava
ARTIST WALKABOUT WITH KATHERINE BULL:
‘The Pieces That Find Us’
Come and join the artist Katherine Bull on Saturday 21 May at 11am in the Main Gallery.
This exhibition by Katherine Bull is assembled from works by the artist spanning twenty years of practice in printmaking, performance, painting, drawing and collage. Sourced from the artist's personal collection.
Approached in the spirit of collage - a strategy that has the potential to bring both fresh potentials and uncomfortable juxtapositions - Katherine Bull reflects on the different ways that she returns to a fascination with the unresolved nature and shifting technologies of perception.
Link in Bio:
@kathbull
@westerncapegov
@cityofct
#artwork #southafrica #capetownsouthafrica #painting #installation #video #photography #opening #ava #walkabout
JOIN US FOR FIRST THURSDAYS TONIGHT: Current shows are DARK, V E R S E and TIME IS A BROKEN UMBRELLA.
TEXTURES AT THE AVA:
‘Dark.’
Detail of ‘Circles of Confusion’ by Sinead Mason currently on show in the Long gallery at the AVA: ‘Dark.’ The works in this exhibition articulate themselves within the gaps of documentation and challenge the hegemonic archive. The apparent linearity of knowledge is reinforced by the ways in which we ingest knowledge, with the most obvious example being that of the codex.
‘Circles of Confusion’ 2020
Sinead Mason
Lithographic Print on Munken paper, Edition 1/3
R10 000 (incl. VAT)
Currently on show at the AVA until 21.04.2022
@goldentinks
@firstthursdays_za
Find out more: Link in bio.
#artwork #southafrica #capetownsouthafrica #texture #lithography #photography #munkenpaper
TEXTURES AT THE AVA:
‘Time is a broken umbrella'.
Detail of ‘Conversation 1’ by Matty Monethi currently on show on the Mezzanine gallery at the AVA: 'Time is a Broken Umbrella' is an experiment that sets out to see if it is possible to disperse and decentralise curatorial logic and to substitute the contained convolutions of a single brain for a thinking network, or networked thinking.
‘Conversation 1’
Matty Monethi
Oil and pencil on canvas
R18 400 (incl. VAT)
Currently on show at the AVA until the 21.04.2022
Time Is A Broken Umbrella: Facilitated by FORMS Gallery with writing by Chloë Reid.
@formsgallery
@chloerrreid
@matty_monethi
Find out more: Link in bio.
#artwork #southafrica #capetownsouthafrica #texture #paint #pencil #oilpaint
TEXTURES AT THE AVA:
‘Time is a broken umbrella'.
Detail of ‘Gutsy’ by Hedwig Barry currently on show on the Mezzanine gallery at the AVA: 'Time is a Broken Umbrella' is an experiment that sets out to see if it is possible to disperse and decentralise curatorial logic and to substitute the contained convolutions of a single brain for a thinking network, or networked thinking.
‘Gutsy’
Hedwig Barry
Enamel and automotive paint on polyurethane
R16 000 (incl. VAT)
Currently on show at the AVA until the 21.04.2022
Time Is A Broken Umbrella: Facilitated by FORMS Gallery with writing by Chloë Reid.
@formsgallery
@chloerrreid
@watchhedwigwork
Find out more: Link in bio.
#artwork #southafrica #capetownsouthafrica #texture #paint #sculpture
Unique ♻️ notebooks from our archives! Come pick out your favourite today!
Artworks in the making... come be part of the process today!
"before four and after two" by Christian Nerf, currently running at AVA, until 07.10.2021.
"We agree, Michele! Making art can be messy work, which is exactly why we need spaces like August House !
See new works by Michele Rolstone in “The cultural life of space(s)”, a collaboration with @meta.foundation, in the Mezzanine Gallery until 26 August
Come see our latest group show featuring Thalente Khomo!
“The cultural life of space(s)” is a collaboration Meta Foundation and August House , on in the Mezzanine Gallery until 26 August.
This project is supported by the National Arts Council.
Welcome back to the AVA, Vivien! See new works by Vivien Kohler in “The cultural life of space(s)”, a collaboration with Meta Foundation, on in the Mezzanine Gallery until 26 August. Looking forward to your visit!
