South Africa

Posted on 29-08-2008

^{Exhibitions at Blank Projects: September & October 2008}

^{BIANCA BALDI}

^{HIM & HER (2008)}

^{Opening Thursday 4th  September @ 1800 hrs and carry's on to 26th September 2008}

^{Bianca Baldi's new project plays with ideas of public Baffection, fantasy and the cinematic image - combining actors, fiat seicentos, complicity and hefty logistics to stage a Grand Romantic Gesture.}

^{This participatory project will develop with events during the month of September.}

^{NIKLAS WITTEBERG}

^{Opening Thursday 4th September 2008 @ 18h00 and  ends on the 26th September 2008}

^{Niklas Wittenberg's work encompasses painting, drawing, objects and installation. Working within the Romantic tradition, he creates highly personal environments where a murky ambiguity is privileged over the bright clarity of day.}

^{Despite these Romantic preoccupations, however, the artist approaches the visual non sequitur with the energy of a snapshot. A delicate drawing might be shown alongside a found object he has crudely reworked, or photographs preoccupied with an airy take on dislocation.}

^{His approach can be claustrophobic, abstracted with self-absorption or erupting without warning into a muted sensuality. His unabashed lyricism - concerned with rapidly shifting contexts, disintegration and visual saturation - is as 21st-century as channel-surfing.} 

 ^{KATHERINE BULL
 Data Capture: A Muse
The exhibition opens on the 2nd October and closes on 24th October 2008}

^{The main focus of data capture: a muse will be a series of live portrait drawing performances playing on the tradition of life drawing and the artist’s search for a muse.
This exhibition forms part of an ongoing series in which I am creating low-resolution portraits on the verge of recognition and explore the relationship between the real-time projected image that mirrors the drawing process and its output as print. This for me both re-focuses the emphasis onto the act of looking and drawing itself and plays with the different perspectives of the public performance as spectacle and the private moment between the artist and sitter.
Through this process I continue to attempt to bring the physical and virtual into a closer dialogue. The contextual references reflected in my interrogation of the technology of drawing and print continue to include an alchemy of the art historical, the scientific and the medical in search of finding a position for the contemporary portrait as more than the sum of its parts; an exchange of energy rather than a mechanical process of representation.}

^{Blank Projects is located at 198 Buitengracht Street, Bo-Kaap,Cape Town.}  

^{For more information on the artist or the exhibition, Liza 083 256 1170 / Jonathan (072 198 9221) or visit http://blankprojects.blogspot.com/}