Oh No, Lino. Vuyile Voyiya at the AVA
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Pictured above, we can see the starving Zimbabwean artist, Dan Halter, stalking an unsuspecting canape waiter. Most of us polite gallery-goers were shocked to see such voracious consumption, two handed, but were impressed with the quality of the scraps we could salvage. Two thumbs up to Kirsty Cockerill and the AVA for providing sustenance at these upmarket functions.Later, I went and looked at the art inside. Then I started to down my wine at a fantastic rate. I don't have a problem with lino, per se. It's just, I believe, a fine line one must walk to pull it off, especially as it is a medium that has a large weight of heavy associations. Suffice to say that this was no John Muafengejo. Nor was it Wim Botha.
There was some paintings upstairs too.
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posted by Robert Sloon at 12:47 PM
2 Comments:
lino cuts were ok, quite impressed by the machine like precision of repetetive cuts...but one would definitely have been enough. Nice speech sorta, including ambiguous statements about cecil skotnes....paintings upstairs more intruiging, nice handling of paint, but again too much of a good thing and all that...perhaps they seemed better because they provided much needed visual relief from the monotony of bland lino cut over drive going on downstairs? overall not an exciting show, and curatorially risk free...except for the huge white space that is, that was a huge risk i'm trying to decide if it was accidental or if two works were swiped off the wall on opening, or if kirsty (despite managing to trump the canape angle) actually just doesn't have a fucking clue how to curate?
First of all, Sloon, "Large weight of heavy associations", Please explain... and dont start about childhood memories of cutting yourself in 2nd grade..
We're getting so used too sloppy techniques that we don't appreciate knowledge of a medium when we see it, these linocuts are actually quite remarkable, and yes, if it was about showing us technique, one would suffice, but just maybe this is the medium of choice for Vuyile Voyiya and there are possibly issues that he is dealing with going beyond the lino..
I agree that the curatorial choices seemed a bit odd, but these are not Kirsty's nor Vuyile's decisions. merely a fuck up on the framer's side according to my info.
Also, the paintings upstairs might feature because they throw some color in, but really, that's about it.
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