Dada South?
Friday, October 23, 2009
Had a bit of a meltdown on the site yesterday, hence the very strange title hanging around. But, this show looks like it will be the big big winner of the year.
Dada South? at IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL GALLERY
12 December 2009 to 28 February 2010
In this exhibition, South African artworks from the 1960s to the present are exhibited alongside a collection of artworks and publications by historical Dada artists. The juxtaposition invites a fresh enquiry into South African artistic production by highlighting some similarities in method, strategy and imagery, between socially critical South African art and the art of Dada.
In Dada South? curators Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith consider the legacy of socially critical and experimental South African art in relation to the influence of Dada. Many people are familiar with South African ‘resistance art’, produced in the late 1970s to early 1990s, which deals with political subject matter in a direct way. Dada South? is a chance to broaden this view to include art which criticises and mocks any political and social forms and institutions. It is also an occasion to reconsider the influence of non-western cultures on Dada activities.
Also get to see live works by Hoch, Arp, Duchamp, Ray and others, along with South African artists like Alexander, Goedhals, Hlobo and many more. Wow.
posted by Robert Sloon at 12:03 PM
5 Comments:
o0o0o0o0ohhh.
About time somebody made that rather staggeringly obvious point. Well done, guys, for making it. Baby steps necessary for overseas audiences to understand what the f*** we actually talk about here. Oh, and you might want to explain what Dada is to art critic Alex Dodd.
o0o0o0o0ohhh.
About time somebody made that rather staggeringly obvious point. Well done, guys, for making it. Baby steps necessary for overseas audiences to understand what the f*** we actually talk about here. Oh, and you might want to explain what Dada is to art critic Alex Dodd.
Feeling cynical today?
What do you mean by the Alex Dodd comment?
baba mama dada dodo
Ja, what do you mean about Alex Dodd, meanie?
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