You are invited to THE STERN EXCHANGE
an exhibition by Lien Botha and Clementina van der Walt
on Saturday 4th October 2014 at 10:30
as part of Designing Destiny
an exhibition by Lien Botha and Clementina van der Walt
on Saturday 4th October 2014 at 10:30
as part of Designing Destiny
To be opened by Michael Godby
Exhibition styled in collaboration with EBONY
Walkabout on Wednesday 15th October at 10:30
Exhibition closes 25th October 2014
MOP6 Festival program 15 September – 31st October on www.photocentre.org.za
The UCT Irma Stern Museum
Cecil Road, Rosebank, Cape Town Tel. 021 685 5686
Opening hours:
Tues-Fri 10:00 - 17:00
Sat 10: 00 - 14:00
www.irmastern.co.za
The Stern Exchange
is a collaboration between lens-based artist Lien Botha and ceramic artist Clementina van der Walt and
will also be part of the Sixth Cape Town Month of Photography.
Whilst the artists will each independently
be investigating aspects of the Irma Stern Museum and reflecting these in
separate bodies of work in their respective mediums, the original idea was to present something along the lines of the
Grayson Perry installations in the British Museum – The Tomb of the Unknown
Craftsman – in 2011/12.
Botha, besides exhibiting work from two
existing portfolios called Moundou (2008)
and Plant Press (2009), also created a unique set of eight photographic prints,
featuring staff of the Irma Stern Museum and which can best be described as an
idiosyncratic insertion into the raison
d’être of this venerated building.
Van der Walt
will show ceramic works which embrace both the utilitarian and contemplative
aspects of the ceramic discipline. Much of the style and methods of working
have been inspired by experiencing two parallel lives – an urban life in the
City of Cape Town and a rural life on a farm outside Calitzdorp in the Klein
Karoo where she spends many weeks of the year.
Her intention is to ‘seek the sacred in the
ordinary’; “I endeavour to make contemplative objects which have a utilitarian
dimension. My aesthetic inspiration is drawn from the patterns, colours, light
and textures in the urban and natural African landscape.”
Finally, the interplay between ceramic work
and photographic prints will be tied together with furniture - supplied and
coordinated by Ebony Design.
*Esteemed academic and Art Historian,
Professor Michael Godby will open the exhibition.
*There will be a walkabout on Wednesday 15 October
with Irma Stern lucky packets available for sale.
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