SWIFT TRANSITIONS
University of Pretoria’s final year Fine Arts students
Until 4 December 2011
Henry Preiss Hall
The University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the Pretoria Art Museum, once again promises to entice both art lovers and academia with exhibitions of work by final year Fine Arts students. Seventeen students will exhibit their work in two exhibitions, both entitled Swift Transitions. The first group’s exhibition will be on view until Thursday, 27 October and the second group will open on 2 November at 18:30 for 19:00.
Each of the two exhibitions promises to showcase a wide variety of artistic practices ranging from traditional media (painting, drawing and sculpture) to new media and installation works. Experimental techniques, original approaches in art making, and a spirit of adventure are prevalent in the works of these young artists.
PLAY OFF
by Gordon Froud and Lance Friedlande
26 October 2011 to 22 January 2012
Alberth Wert Hall
This extensive exhibition of about 150 works featuring sculptures, photographs and etchings by Gordon Froud and paintings by Lance Friedlande. The opening will take place on Wednesday, 26 October, 18:00 for 18:30.
The PLAY-OFF exhibition calibrates and celebrates the individuality of the creative process, highlighting the similarities and differences between the activities practised by both artists to produce their work. Similarities include using creativity to resolve self-generated problems, using words to stimulate content, following an evolutionary process, and setting up an ongoing dialogue between the artist and the artwork. Also important to both artists is finding joy in the creative activity, resulting at times in playfulness in the process as well as in the completed artwork.
ERIC BOLSMANN – A RETROSPECTIVE
Until 4 December 2011
Henry Preiss Hall
Eric Bolsmann is a painter and writer known for his love of Pretoria, the city he has called his home for over thirty years. This love features in his books on wine and food and history and art, and also in many of his paintings. Eric Bolsmann – A retrospective is the artist's eleventh solo exhibition, and of the more than fifty paintings on view some are shown to the public for the first time. A number of the paintings, such as Pretoria 2005, the Pretoria Railway Station, Arcadia Hotel, The Floral Palette and The Moederkerk of Stellenbosch have been graciously loaned to the Art Museum by private collectors.
The opening of the exhibition coincided with the launch of Bolsmann's book Who wants to be a starving artist anyway? This, his fourth book dealing specifically with art, is an autobiographical account of his life as an artist. Woven into the narrative is a wealth of information that artists and art lovers will find fascinating.
Forthcoming Exhibitions
Pedestrian Paintings by Andries Gouws | East Gallery | Opening on 8 December 18:30 until 29 February 2012
Children’s Tile Art Project | East Gallery | 1 December 2011 to 29 January 2012