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1 December 2012 – 26 January 2013

‘I‘d Rather Be Swimming’ End of year Group Salon in association with the  I AM WATER ocean conservation trust, featuring some Salon91 favourites as well as some fresh all-new local talent.

As passionate Ocean lovers, I AM WATER, founded by champion freediver Hanli Prinsloo, strives to share the joy aquatic with as wide an audience as possible. With the help of Salon 91 water will once again take centre stage, as it should! We are all Water, and we all share the opportunity and challenge to protect our last wilderness beneath the waves. The I am Water Ocean Conservation Trust aims to do this through education and awareness, spreading the love and protection of the oceans through introducing South Africans from all walks of life to the ocean environment & important conservation issues.

Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe, best known for her beautiful swimmer sculptures, which were installed at the Sea Point Promenade until recently, will be the guest speaker at the opening.

Salon91 &  I AM WATER will be hosting a beach clean up on Sunday the 20th of January 2013 at 10:00 am. We would love for the Salon91 community & everyone who appreciates nature, art or the ocean to get involved. Please contact us on info@salon91.co.za if you would like to help out.

Artists to be participating in ‘I’d rather be swimming’:

Adam Shear

Adrie Le Roux

Alice Edy

Alice Toich

Ben Winfield

Bruce Mackay

Cameron Richards

Candace Di Talamo

Carla Kreuser

Carlo Milandri

Caroline Mackintosh

Christiaan Conradie

Clinton Osbourn

Donna Solovei

Dylan Culhane

Elsabé Milandri

Elise Wessels

Elize Vossgatter

Emalie Bingham

Emily Jane Long

Fred Clark

Gabby Raaff

Galia Gluckman

Hugh Byrne

Ian Engelbrecht

Jaco Haasbroek

Jade Klara

Jean de Wet

Johke

Jo O’Connor

Justin Southey

Katrin Coetzer

Katrine Claassens

Kirsten Beets

Kirsten Lilford

Kirsten Sims

Lara Feldman

Lisa Firer

Lorraine Loots

Lucie Demoyencourt

Lucinda Mudge

Maaike Bakker

Maria Lebedeva

Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe

Mariëtte Bergh

Marlise Keith In association with Brundyn + Gonsalves

Mia Chaplin

Michael Tymbios

Michele Rolstone

Nicola DeJager

Pascal Paquette

Paul Senyol

Rebecca Haysom

Rikus Ferreira

Rohan Etsebeth

Sarah Pratt

Shan Fischer

Simon Berndt

Susana Paez

Swain Hoogervorst

Warren Lewis

You’ve Changed

Zelda Weber

& more…

 

Wed 27 June – 28 July 2012

 


 

ABOUT ~ {Impression : Sunset} a new collection of contemporary painters.
This exhibition comprises a broad spectrum interpretation of contemporary painting using Monet’s famous image “Impression; Sunrise” as a point of departure. The exhibition features the works of Grace Cross, Alexandra Karakashian, Hugh Byrne, Lorraine Loots, Mia Chaplin, Swain Hoogervorst, Chris Auret, Galia Gluckman, Lara Feldman, Christiaan Conradie, and Mariëtte Bergh. Medium: paper, canvas, board, enamel, resin, oil, ink and acrylic.

 

After 2 years living in London and eleven years of working in New York, Israeli-born artist Galia Gluckman returns to South Africa, where she grew up and the place she calls “home”. Her works are bold and tactile, a balance between intricate detail and abstraction, combining the disciplines of painting and collage. What results in large-scale colourful landscapes, develops from intricate patterns. The element of detail in her work recalls the gem-like mosaic quality of Gustav Klimt’s pictures. For Galia, the engaging repetitive process of mosaic is a form of meditation, and she finds a kind of creative catharsis in the idea of ‘order, arising from disorder’. The artist has a unique way of viewing art and pattern – ‘Pattern, whether in nature or in art, relies upon three characteristics: unit, repetition and a system of organization,’ she says, “I question how these regular patterns develop and what rules shape the patterns in the world around us’. In 2009, the artist won the Global Green Artist Challenge at the International Art Expo in New York. As part of a beautification project in New York, she was commissioned by the Mayor of Great Neck, New York to design a public artwork, which is displayed in a train station spanning an area of 7,3 x 1,2 metres. Galia has exhibited in New York, California, Boston and Cape Town. Galia currently works from her studio in Constantia.