South Africa

^{Posted on Monday, 5th May, 2008}

Walter Oltman and Peter Schutz

at the Goodman Gallery Cape

^{GOODMAN GALLERY CAPE
proudly presents
WALTER OLTMANN & PETER SCHÜTZ
Opening  Thursday 8 May  at 6:00pm
Exhibition closes 31 May 2008}

^{Walter Oltmann, recipient of the 2001 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art and winner of the 2007 Sasol Wax Art Award, exhibits new works employing both human and insect aspects to explore the paradoxes of vulnerability and the monstrous. Oltmann’s obsessive explorations of the natural world have resulted in drawings in ink and bleach and woven wire constructions that reference local craft traditions. Walter Oltmann is a senior lecturer at the Wits  School  of the Arts, Johannesburg.}

^{KwaZulu Natal-based artist, Peter Schütz, is widely known for his finely carved and painted wood sculptures that present imaginative, witty ruminations on religious, mythological and cultural icons. For this new body of work Schütz draws on a wide range of sources that include Zulu and African Zionist church regalia, beliefs and cosmologies to imbue his sculptures with particular aesthetic forms and spiritual potencies.}

^{While Oltmann often works on a monumental scale and Schütz, by contrast, prefers an intimate approach, both artists are celebrated for their superb craftsmanship and extraordinary attention to detail and finish.}

^{UPCOMING EXHIBITION}

^{Power Play: 5 – 28 June}

^NEWS

• ^{Willie Bester, Norman Catherine, David Goldblatt, William Kentridge, Ezrom Legae, Sam Nhlengethwa, Tracey Rose, Penny Siopis, Nontsikelelo Veleko and Sue Williamson feature in Apartheid: The South African Mirror which can be seen at the Fundacion Bancaja in Valencia from 17 April to 29 June. Emma Bedford was an Art and History consultant for the project.}
• ^{Hasan and Husain Essop, Frances Goodman, Brett Murray, Peter Schütz, Kathryn Smith, Hentie van der Merwe, Jeremy Wafer and Sue Williamson show on Spier Contemporary curated by Clive van den Berg, which opened at the Johannesburg Art Gallery on 15 March and runs until 31 May before moving to the Durban Art Gallery from 15 August to 1 November.}
• ^{Frances Goodman, Moshekwa Langa, Mikhael Subotzky and Nontsikelelo Veleko are amongst the young artists selected by Marlene Dumas, Kendell Geers, Berni Searle, Minnette Vári and Sue Williamson for .za: giovane arte dal Sudafrica at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, until 4 May. See www.papesse.org} 
• ^{David Goldblatt, Mikhael Subotzky and Nontsikelelo Veleko are included in Reality Check curated by Pam Warne for the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin and currently on view at Iziko South African National Gallery until 25 May.}
• ^{On March 19 2008 the Vaal University of Technology conferred an honorary doctorate on David Koloane, whose 70th birthday is celebrated with a solo exhibition that opens at The Goodman Gallery this month.}
• ^{William Kentridge’s Tide Table will be screened on the ‘Best of Animation’ at the 15th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film from 1 to 6 May. What will come features on the group show, ‘Peripheral Look and Collective Body’ at Museion, Bolzano from 24 May to 21 September. www.museion.it}
• ^{In April the University of the Witwatersrand conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Literature on David Goldblatt.}
• ^{Mikhael Subotzky has been selected for New Photography 2008, the Museum of Modern Art, New York’s annual showcase of significant recent work in photography. He will be presenting his Beaufort West body of photographs. Subotzky was also awarded the prestigious ICP Infinity Young Photographer Award by the International Center of Photography, New York and a residency at the Civitella Ranieri in Umbria, Italy, which he will take up in September.}
• ^{As winner of the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2008 for Visual Art, Nontsikelelo Veleko presents her solo show, Wonderland, at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown from 26 June to 5 July.}
• ^{Sue Williamson and Veleko  are included on The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art curated by Alisa LaGamma, Curator of African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lynn Gumpert of Grey Art Gallery, New York University from 16 September through 6 December 2008.}
• ^{Veleko and Moshekwa Langa are included in Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York until 29 June.}
• ^{Jodi Bieber will exhibit her series Las Canas at the first international Biennial of Photography in The Islamic World to be held in May 2008. She has been invited to present a photographic workshop at PHOTO ESPANE in Spain and at TPW (Toscana Photographic Workshop) in Italy  this summer. Bieber was recently a jury member for World Press Photo.}

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