Ctn gallery guide - May 05, 2011

Published May 5, 2011

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blank projects, 113-115 Sir Lowry Rd,

Woodstock. Tel: 072 198 9221:

Some Dance to Remember, Some Dance to Forget. Sanell Aggenbach pays tribute to music as muse, by reproducing seminal albums and iconic rock images as a series of monotype prints. Until Saturday.

AND Enchanted Forest. Adriaan de Villiers presents an installation of phallic/religious tower-like sculptures that crowd the exhibition space. Think Gaudi and Hundertwasser. The erotic symbolism of Gustav Klimt meets the South African flower kingdom. Until Saturday.

Café Neo, 121 Beach Rd, Mouille Point. Tel: 021 433 0849:

Aqua Floral. Photographer Cara Saven’s series has been inspired by the way florals “dance in water”. Until Saturday.

Casa Laba, 192 Main Rd, Muizenberg. Tel: 021 788 6068:

Ubuntu Bethu. A mixed media exhibition by Lindile Magunya and Gerald Tabata. Ends May 29.

Donald Greig Gallery and Foundry, West Quay Rd, V&A Waterfront. Tel: 021 418 0003:

Bronze art by Donald Greig. Watch the bronze pouring process, displaying the lost wax casting process at 2pm, Mondays to Thursdays, and at 11am on Fridays.

ErdmannContemporary & the Photographers Gallery za, 63 Shortmarket St, CBD. Tel: 021 422 2762

After the Master-Class. An exhibition at Auto Atlantic BMW Mini Dealer on the Foreshore of photography by Yazeed Kamaldien, Jenny Altschuler, Ant Strack, Sarah-Kate Schafer, Retha Ferguson, Lindeka Qampi, Clara Tilve, Eric Miller and Barry White.

Photographers Gallery Library of the Infinitesimally Small and the Unimaginably Large. By conceptualist Barbara Wildenboer, a who works with paper construction and altered books. The written word is brought to life through animation, sculpture and photography and books were chosen not only for physical characteristics, but also subject matter. Ends May 21.

Everard Read Gallery, 3 Portswood Rd, V&A Waterfront. Tel: 021 418 4527:

UK artist Ed Hodgkinson exhibits new large-scale enamel on aluminium paintings based on his figurative line drawings. Until May 19.

G2 Art, 61Shortmarket St, between Loop and Bree sts, CBD. Tel: 021 424 7169:

Navigating Time. A new body of work by Uwe Pfaff, shape-shifting from earlier gleaming nickel-plated works to nuanced copper and brass. Until June 11.

Iziko SA National Gallery, Government Ave, Company’s Garden, CBD. Tel: 021 467 4660:

Endgame. By Michael MacGarry, Standard Bank Young Artists for Visual Arts 2010. His work is focused within the context of sub-Saharan Africa and is principally concerned with investigating how exploitation of hydrocarbons is an extension of the colonial-era legacy of mercantile capitalism. Ends May 15.

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Rhodes Drive, Newlands, Tel: 021 799 8899:

Untamed. A project between sculptor Dylan Lewis, architect Enrico Daffonchio and poet Ian McCallum. Ends 2012.

Tokara Winery, crest of the Helshoogte Pass on R310, between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek. Tel: 021 808 5900

Wat Kyk Ons? Curated by Julia Meintjes. A selection of 45 works by artists such as Walter Battiss, Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge, David Koloane, Maggie Laubser, Louis Maqhubela, Frans Oerder, Stanley Pinker, Cecil Skotnes and Guy Tillim. Ends May 31.

Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection, 91 Kloof St, Gardens. Tel: 021 424 6930:

Phantasmagoria. Paul Painting mixes his fascination with traditional painting techniques and film to give us mugshots of vicious criminals rubbing shoulders with stuffed gorillas, concrete dinosaurs that square off against burlesque wrestlers – a phantasmagoria of ill-starred misfits. Until May 21.

South African Print Gallery, 109 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock. Tel: 021 462 6851:

Tim’s Print Studio Show. A selection of collaborative works from Tim’s Print Studio, Midrand. Participating artists include Colbert Mashile, David Koloane, Willem Boshoff, Kim Berman, Paul Molete, Zak Benjamin, Elza Botha, Pat Mautloa, Cheryl Gage and Michael Chiboga Khumalo. Until May 31.

l E-mail all art-related info to [email protected] by Tuesday.

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