South Africa

_{Posted on Wednesday 29-8-2007}

Johann Louw - A Mid-Career Retrospective

_{An exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by Johann Louw over two decades.}

_{Sanlam Art Gallery}

_{2 Strand Road Bellville}

_{19 September 2007 – 2 November 2007}

_{As an artist and painter Johann Louw stands out as rather unique, comments Stefan Hundt, curator of the Sanlam Art Collection and gallery.}

_{“His ability to manipulate and model paint and engage the inner psyche of the viewer through this medium, place Louw as one of the few painters that have transcended the parochial self-indulgence that has characterised contemporary art in South Africa. Although his imagery remains enigmatic and may not be clearly explicable, it has become part of the iconography reflecting South Africa’s evolving society,” Hundt contends.}

_{Over the past twenty years Louw has stood out as one of the foremost painters in South Africa. Although he has exhibited regularly in Cape Town and Johannesburg it has been hard to form a broad overview of his oeuvre.}

_{The exhibition in the Sanlam Art Gallery will show works from when Louw completed his studies at the University of Stellenbosch in the 1980s to the present. It is supplemented by an extensively illustrated catalogue of 60 pages with contributions by Professor David Bunn (head of the department History of Art at the Wits School of the Arts) and Andries Gouws, philosopher and acclaimed painter in his own right.}

_{In all, Hundt believes this should to some degree ameliorate the difficulty of assessing Louw’s work and provide the viewer or reader with a broad perspective on the paintings, drawings and graphic works that he has produced over the last two decades.}

_{The exhibition will be opened by Melvyn Minnaar, arts writer, at 19:00 on 18 September 2007 in the Sanlam Art Gallery, at 2 Strand Road, Bellville.}

_{More information: Stefan Hundt
Curator: Sanlam Art Collection
021 947 3359 / 083 457 2699}
 

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_{Johann Louw – ‘n Terugbliktentoonstelling}

_{‘n Tentoonstelling van Johann Louw se skilderye, tekeninge en kunsdrukke die afgelope twee dekades.}

_{Sanlam-kunsgalery
Strandweg 2
Bellville}

_{19 September 2007 – 2 November 2007}

_{As ‘n kunstenaar en skilder kan Johann Louw geredelik as uniek uitgesonder word, meen Stefan Hundt, kurator van die Sanlam-kunsversameling en -galery.}

_{“Sy vermoeë om verf te manipuleer en vorm daaraan te gee en deur dié medium die innerlike psige van die kyker te betrek, maak Louw een van die min skilders wat die bekrompe selfbevrediging wat soms hedendaagse Suid-Afrikaanse kuns kenmerk, te bowe gekom het. Hoewel sy verbeeldingswêreld geheimsinnig bly en dalk nie duidelik verklaarbaar is nie, het dit deel geword van die ikonografie wat Suid-Afrika se ontvouende gemeenskap weerspieël,” voer Hundt aan.}

_{Oor die laaste twintig jaar het Louw hom as een van Suid-Afrika se voorste skilders gevestig. Hoewel sy werk gereeld in Kaapstad en Johannesburg ten toon gestel word, bly dit moeilik om ‘n oorkoepelende indruk van sy oeuvre te vorm. Die tentoonstelling in die Sanlam-kunsgalery oorspan die tydperk sedert 1980. Dit word aangevul met ‘n omvattend-geïllustreerde katalogus van 60 bladsye met bydraes deur prof. David Bunn (hoof van die departement Kunsgeskiedenis aan die kunsteskool by Wits) en Andries Gouws, filosoof en hoogaangeskrewe skilder uit eie reg.}

_{Hundt meen dat dít in sekere mate alles makliker sal maak om Louw se werk te waardeer en die kyker of leser ‘n breë perspektief sal bied oor die skilderye, tekeninge en grafiese werke wat hy die afgelope twee dekades geskep het. Die tentoonstelling word op 18 September 2007 om 19:00 deur die kunsteskrywer Melvyn Minnaar, in die Sanlam-kunsgalery, Strandstraat 2, Bellville geopen.}

_{Nadere inligting: Stefan Hundt
Kurator: Sanlam-kunsversameling
021 947 3359 / 083 457 2699}

_{Submitted by Sanlam Art Gallery (sanlamart@sanlam.co.za)
PR Company: Sanlam
Telephone Number: 021 947 3359
Cellphone Number: 083 457 2699
Client's name: Sanlam Art Gallery}

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