Pietermaritzburg Tatham Art Gallery flooded
The basement of the Pietermaritzburg Tatham Art Gallery flooded this morning leaving around 400 artworks damaged. Although it has not yet been confirmed, gallery employees believe the two-day power outage caused a malfunction on one of the water pumps running below the gallery causing it to burst.
Read full article in Saturday's Weekend Witness.
The Fabulous Picture Show 2012.mov
The annual Fabulous Picture Show is organised by the Friends of the Tatham Art Gallery (FOTAG) Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, to raise money to buy works for the Gallery. This is a tightly edited glance at the business end of the Show held in the Gallery on the evening of Friday 30 November 2012.
PELMAMA at Oliewenhuis Art Museum 2007 Bloemfontein opening 1
PELMAMA at OLIEWENHUIS Art Museum Bloemfontein - guests arriving for the opening on 9th July, 2007
Music Revival Encore - O sole mio
After two hours of singing, the five opera stars at the Music Revival Grand Night of Italian Opera belted out an encore which had a passable brush with O sole mio with various obligato additions from all and sundry.
A Grand Night of Italian Opera on Friday 28 March 2014 at the Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Produced by Steinway pianist, Christopher Duigan, the concert featured South African singers Bongiwe Madlala and Loveline Madumo (sopranos), Violina Anguelov (mezzo-soprano), Njabulo Madlala (baritone) and special guest, Sipho Fubesi (tenor).
Concert sponsors were: La Società Dante Alighieri, Pietermaritzburg; il Consolato d'Italia, Johannesburg; Parklane Spar; Tatham Art Gallery and Christopher Duigan's Music Revival.
Meeting the Makers at Tatham
Meeting the Makers is a contemporary crafts as art exhibition at the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg, KZN. Work from artists all over the province are showcased.
SA Artists of the 20th century
Edendale Excels is an exhibition at the Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg in celebration of four great South African artists of the 20th century who lived in Edendale.
Walkabout of History will break your Heart by Kemang Wa Lehulere
History will break your Heart
Kemang Wa Lehulere: Standard Bank Young Artist 2015
12 February 2016
Oliewenhuis Art Museum hosted an exhibition of artworks by the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for Visual Art, Kemang Wa Lehulere from 11 February until 27 March 2016. Entitled History will Break your Heart, the exhibition showcased works by Kemang Wa Lehulere, Ernest Mancoba and Gladys Mgudlandlu, as well as works made in collaboration with the artist’s aunt, Sophia Lehulere.
The exhibition took its cue from the works of South African artists Gladys Mgudlandlu, Ernest Mancoba and writer Rolfes Robert Reginald ‘R.R.R’ Dhlomo. Employing strategies of remembering and re-enactment, the exhibition presented the fractured personal narratives of these artists in relation to Wa Lehulere’s own work, and questions the detrimental effects of society’s collective memory, or rather amnesia, on the lives of these artists.
Working within the genres of video, installation and drawing, History will Break Your Heart explored intimate narratives that spoke of the contradictions inherent in personal versus collective memory. Audiences had the opportunity to experience the artist’s object-filled installations comprised of fragments of worn-out school desks, combined with upturned gumboots with gold-painted soles. The pairing of these objects made reference to South Africa’s profoundly imperfect education system and the Marikana Massacre of 2012.
In his own words, Wa Lehulere described the exhibition as “a protest against forgetting”. In this sense, the exhibition seeks to uncover the narrative that lies forgotten between memory and history. As an action against the omissions of history, Wa Lehulere’s art remains clearly grounded in the present; the past and future are however implicated in its content and physical appearance. Central to his creative process is the act of erasure, exemplified by his ephemeral chalk drawings and the reinterpretation of discarded objects. Through his manipulation of materials and objects, Wa Lehulere was able to skillfully transform the notion of time into something tangible.
The exhibition also showcased a film that documents the artist’s excavation of forgotten murals by the self-taught artist, Gladys Mgudlandlu in Gugulethu. Another film incorporates footage from one of the last interviews with South Africa’s first black avant-garde artist, Ernest Mancoba.
A comprehensive monograph published alongside this touring exhibition traced the trajectory of Wa Lehulere’s artistic production. This book contains letters and interviews with the artist by leading critics and cultural commentators, and was on sale at Oliewenhuis Art Museum throughout the exhibition.
A version of the exhibition has been installed at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, the Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg and Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. After its stint at Oliewenhuis Art Museum, the exhibition travelled to the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (19 April - 25 June 2016), and the University of Potchefstroom Art Gallery, Potchefstroom (14 July - 18 August 2016).
Kemang Wa Lehulere presented a walkabout of his exhibition at 10:00 on Friday, 12 February 2016.
Oliewenhuis Art Museum is a satellite of the National Museum, Bloemfontein, an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture.
Exhibition Opening: History will break your Heart by Kemang Wa Lehulere
11 February – 27 March 2016
Oliewenhuis Art Museum hosted an exhibition of artworks by the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for Visual Art, Kemang Wa Lehulere from 11 February until 27 March 2016. Entitled History will Break your Heart, the exhibition showcased works by Kemang Wa Lehulere, Ernest Mancoba and Gladys Mgudlandlu, as well as works made in collaboration with the artist’s aunt, Sophia Lehulere.
The exhibition took its cue from the works of South African artists Gladys Mgudlandlu, Ernest Mancoba and writer Rolfes Robert Reginald ‘R.R.R’ Dhlomo. Employing strategies of remembering and re-enactment, the exhibition presented the fractured personal narratives of these artists in relation to Wa Lehulere’s own work, and questions the detrimental effects of society’s collective memory, or rather amnesia, on the lives of these artists.
Working within the genres of video, installation and drawing, History will Break Your Heart explored intimate narratives that spoke of the contradictions inherent in personal versus collective memory. Audiences had the opportunity to experience the artist’s object-filled installations comprised of fragments of worn-out school desks, combined with upturned gumboots with gold-painted soles. The pairing of these objects made reference to South Africa’s profoundly imperfect education system and the Marikana Massacre of 2012.
In his own words, Wa Lehulere described the exhibition as “a protest against forgetting”. In this sense, the exhibition seeks to uncover the narrative that lies forgotten between memory and history. As an action against the omissions of history, Wa Lehulere’s art remains clearly grounded in the present; the past and future are however implicated in its content and physical appearance. Central to his creative process is the act of erasure, exemplified by his ephemeral chalk drawings and the reinterpretation of discarded objects. Through his manipulation of materials and objects, Wa Lehulere was able to skillfully transform the notion of time into something tangible.
The exhibition also showcased a film that documents the artist’s excavation of forgotten murals by the self-taught artist, Gladys Mgudlandlu in Gugulethu. Another film incorporates footage from one of the last interviews with South Africa’s first black avant-garde artist, Ernest Mancoba.
A comprehensive monograph published alongside this touring exhibition traced the trajectory of Wa Lehulere’s artistic production. This book contains letters and interviews with the artist by leading critics and cultural commentators, and was on sale at Oliewenhuis Art Museum throughout the exhibition.
A version of the exhibition has been installed at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth, the Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg and Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town. After its stint at Oliewenhuis Art Museum, the exhibition travelled to the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (19 April - 25 June 2016), and the University of Potchefstroom Art Gallery, Potchefstroom (14 July - 18 August 2016).
History will Break your Heart was opened by Thembinkosi Goniwe, Artist and Art Historian at 19:00 on Thursday, 11 February 2016.
Oliewenhuis Art Museum is a satellite of the National Museum, Bloemfontein, an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture.
Ayanda Mabulu - Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein
Ayanda Mabulu's introduction at the launch of #Amandla![Re]form,Debate,[Re]dress? catalogue at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein on Thursday the 9th of February 2017.
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838 and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its Zulu name umGungundlovu is the name used for the district municipality. Pietermaritzburg is popularly called Maritzburg in English and Zulu alike, and often informally abbreviated to PMB. It is a regionally important industrial hub, producing aluminium, timber and dairy products. It is home to many schools and tertiary education institutions, including a campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. It had a population of 228,549 in 1991; the estimated current population is around 500,000 and has one of the largest populations of Indian South Africans in South Africa.
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A DROP IN THE OCEAN DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
Location: Tatham Art Gallery in Pietermaritzburg South Africa
Lara Kirsten plays Kereon by Yann Tiersen
Kereon (from EUSA by Yann Tiersen)
Recorded during the piano recital The Resonating Pulse performed by Lara Kirsten.
The Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
28 October 2018
Filmed by Bronwen Havard
Women's Monument to (25,000!) Anglo-Boer War Concentration Camp Victims (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
(Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa)
The first concentration camps were in ~1900 and almost exclusively White-on-White. Did you know that? Neither did I.
In Bloemfontein South Africa, just 20-30 years after their defeat/surrender in the Anglo-Boer War, the (mostly Dutch-derived, the first boat-full of them having arrived in 1652, ~250 years prior!) Afrikaner Boer (meaning farmer) people still living there set up this Women's Monument to remember the (mostly) women and kids who died of starvation, thirst and/or sickness in British-run concentration camps. (I s$%t you not!)
See the Boer fighters were organized into essentially-guerrilla commando militias. And they kept kicking the butts of the British who out-numbered and out-resourced them 10-to-1.
But while they were away out butt-kicking someplace, the wives were back on the farms taking care of things. So the British said screw this, and just burned/dynamited the farms, killed the livestock, and took the wives and kids hostage in these concentration camps.
This unplugged the Boer fighters provisions-wise, but that wasn't really the whole plan.
Taking the wives and kids hostage in this way, and passive-aggressively allowing them to die-off in bureaucratic fashion (Oh dang, we ran out of food for the prisoners again. --sound familiar?) not just humiliated the men emotionally and spiritually (worse than unbelievers, right?), but of course gave them dang good reasons to give up and surrender, and quickly, which they did.
You might just have to agree that genocide worked. But try not to think about it.
No wait. I mean: YES PLEASE DO try to think about it!
(And what if they'd thought of this when fighting General Washington and his people in the Revolutionary War, hmm?)
Lara Kirsten plays Porz Goret by Yann Tiersen
Porz Goret (from EUSA by Yann Tiersen)
Recorded during the piano recital The Resonating Pulse with Lara Kirsten.
The Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
28 October 2018
Filmed by Bronwen Havard
Lara Kirsten plays Penn ar Roc'h by Yann Tiersen
Penn ar Roc'h (from EUSA by Yann Tiersen)
Recorded during the piano recital The Resonating Pulse performed by Lara Kirsten.
The Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
28 October 2018
Filmed by Bronwen Havard
Singing for the Ambassador
The French ambassador to South Africa, Elisabeth Barbier, paid a flying visit to Pietermaritzburg on 30 May to be guest of honour during the commemoration of the 135th anniversary of the death of the Prince Imperial, Louis Napoléon, who died on the battlefield during the Anglo Zulu War on 1 June 1879.
Above is Yivani Ndizana of Hilton College who sang the French classic 'Romance' by Claude Debussy.
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