Billy Mandindi 'Untitled'
Garth Erasmus - 'Emergency Series #1' 1987
‘S T O N E D’
Remembering the 80's
Curated by Cheryl Traub-Adler
27.04.23 - 08.06.23
This is an exhibition that constellates the work of artists that originated out of the Cape Town based Michaelis School of Art , Community Arts Project, and the Vakalisa Art Associates network.
These works and posters were produced during a critical moment of apartheid repression. A decade where Southern Africa was in an undisclosed civil war and artists utilized their skills as a form of resistance and expression of their trauma.
The use of printed medium, woodblock, scraper-board, linocut, pencil,and ball-point pen were put to use as social commentary and to disseminate information in a time before the internet.
As an archival show, the visual lens is not centered around aesthetics. The viewer is invited to participate in the activation of these memories, to think about our collective humanity and what is at stake If we disregard each other?
ARTISTS: Ângela Ferreira, Billy Mandindi, Brett Murray, David Hlongwane, Diane Paulse, Emile Maurice, Gaby Cheminais, Garth Erasmus, Grant Schreiber, Jane Solomon, Janet Purcell, Jann Cheifitz, John Muafangejo, Jonathan Berndt, Kevin Brand, Louise Linder, Lovell Friedman, Lynne Lomofsky, Manfred Zylla, Mario Pissarra, Michael Barry, Nicolaas Maritz, Patricia de Villiers, Paul Grendon, Roger van Wyk, Sophie Peters, Terry Kurgan, Zbigniew Kaczmarak.
'Mayday Is Ours' - Community Arts Project 1987 (Ângela Ferreira, Billy Mandindi, Brett Murray, David Hlongwane, Diane Paulse, Emile Maurice, Gaby Cheminais, Garth Erasmus, Grant Schreiber, Jane Solomon, Janet Purcell, Jann Cheifitz, John Muafangejo, Jonathan Berndt, Kevin Brand, Louise Linder, Lovell Friedman, Lynne Lomofsky, Manfred Zylla, Mario Pissarra, Michael Barry, Nicolaas Maritz, Patricia de Villiers, Paul Grendon, Roger van Wyk, Sophie Peters, Terry Kurgan, Zbigniew Kaczmarak.)
Mario Pissarra ‘Why Do You Have The Time?’ 1981
Nicolaas Maritz - 'Elephant Child' 1987