Kirsten Beets – Salon Ninety One Contemporary Art Collection

RAISING AWARENESS

The Wavescape Art Board Project has been raising awareness and funds for ocean related charities since 2005. Run by the Wavescape Festival, each year, artists are invited to turn signature surfboards into works of art for an exhibition that ends with an auction. Salon Ninety One is proud to announce participating gallery artists Paul Senyol, Kirsten Beets and Andrew Sutherland…

This year’s exhibition and auction night will be presented by Jack Black Beer, with support from the South African PET Plastic Recycling Company, Cape Town and Western Cape Film and Media Promotion (a division of Wesgro), Long Beach Capital, York, Gone, & Mami Wata. The Main beneficiaries of the project are the NSRI, Shark Spotters, 9 Miles Project, Adaptive Surfing South Africa, Ocean Pledge and the Beach Co-op. Contributing artists have included Asha Zero, Jake Aikman, Sanell Aggenbach, Andrew Whitehouse, Willie Bester, Conrad Botha, Beezy Bailey, Wim Botha, Guy Tillim, Brett Murray, Conn Bertish, Kirsten Sims, Justin Fiske, Roger Ballen, Peter Eastman, Richard Scott, Gabby Raaff, ND Mazin, Mikhael Subotsky, Richard Hart, Anton Kannemeyer, Peter van Straten, Kim Longhurst, Scott Robertson, Zapiro, Chip Snaddon, Mr Fuzzy Slipperz, Varenka Paschke, Osnat de Villiers & more. These and many other artists have kindly donated their time and talent to make the ArtBoard Project a success.

The exhibition will be open for viewing from 10am until 5pm daily from the 20thof November and will run until the 28thof November. On the 28thdoors open at 6pm and the auction will start at 7:30pm. Venue: The Jack Black Tap Room, 10 Brigid Road, Diep River. Call 021 205 1991 or visit www.wavescapefestival.com for more info.

View the full auction catalogue here:
https://bit.ly/2z7zf51

FNB JOBURG ART FAIR 2018

06 – 09.09.2018

Salon Ninety One participating in the 11th annual FNB Joburg Art Fair. Visit us at Booth C02.

ARTWORKS:

HEIDI FOURIE

KATRIN COETZER

KIRSTEN BEETS

KIRSTEN SIMS

Triptych

LINSEY LEVENDALL

PAUL SENYOL

DREAMLAND

04.07 – 04.08.2018

A solo exhibition by Kirsten Beets

“I am a big fan of daydreaming. I try to let my imagination run wild. Where else can you be completely free but in your own mind?” – Kirsten Beets, 2018

Dreamland is Kirsten Beets’ fourth solo exhibition at Salon Ninety One. Her ongoing investigation into human relationships with spaces of leisure imaginatively comments on the distancing between people and the wildness of the natural world. She playfully depicts tigers and deer in images of parks and topiaries and inserts a wry humour into her scenes of swimmers and sunbathers on flat picture planes of blue, pink and green.

Throughout her series, Beets delights in constructing safe moments of viewing and dreaming. The works are characterised by the overall feeling of a summer lethargy, which she uses to enable the sense of ‘dreamy versions of a real place.’ What Beets seems to suggest by way of her imaginative Dreamland is the possibility that a taming of place, plant and species in human leisure spaces has done little to suppress the wildness in human nature. It is in the daydreams of the artist that we are able to entertain this idea.

Included for the first time on exhibition are watercolour monotypes and ceramic sculptures. Prescribed by a playful and loose approach to the medium these works further the narrative of dreamland by being moments of intuitive creation that mirror the act of surrendering to dreaming. Her monotypes succeed in disrupting the photorealism of her oil paintings with a dream-like use of a Technicolor palette and loose marks. Her ceramic works populate the gallery like the imaginative elements in her paintings. While the majority of her oil paintings continue to play with the figure verses ground relationship, her watercolour monotypes realise a hazy sense of a reality seen through a sleep-laden memory of place.

Dreamland surprises and delights the viewer with imaginative interjections into ordinary life making the everyday a little more remarkable. Beets’ choice of subjects, medium and use of colour provokes a playful comment on spaces of leisure and an amusing look at the assumption of tameness within contemporary society.

ARTWORKS:

ORIGINALS

MONOTYPES

CERAMICS

INSTALLATION VIEWS

BEHIND THE SCENES | KIRSTEN BEETS IN HER STUDIO

ARTICLES RELATED TO THIS EXHIBIT:

ART TIMES | June Edition 2018. P40 – 47

“In Conversation KIRSTEN BEETS Dreamland”

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TURBINE ART FAIR 2018

12.07 – 15.07.2018

Booth Number GH13 | Turbine Hall | Johannesburg

Salon Ninety One is a Cape Town based gallery, presenting works by emerging and established contemporary artists of all disciplines, passionate about developing a new brand of local talent. The gallery specializes in accessible contemporary South African Art, Design and illustration. Founded during 2008 by Monique du Preez, (Married name, Foord), curator and director to the space and its highly energized exhibition program. The gallery presented a selection of contemporary work ranging from painting, textile, print, drawing, and to a smaller degree photography and sculpture, with a special emphasis on collaborative projects and bridging the traditional divide between disciplines. Salon91 offered international and local collectors, as well as first-time buyers unique investment opportunities into the emerging South African art market.

Salon Ninety One exhibited at the Turbine Art Fair at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the fifth consecutive year. Visitors to the gallery’s booth did enjoy works by their regular Salon Ninety One TAF favourites such as Amber Moir, Andrew Sutherland, Black Koki, Bruce Mackay, Cathy Layzell, Georgina Berens, Kirsten Beets, Kirsten Sims, Mareli Esterhuizen, Paul Senyol, Heidi Fourie, and Zarah Cassim, to mention only a few, as well as exciting newcomers to the fair, including Chloe Townsend, Berry Meyer, Katrine Claassens, Lili Probart, Matthew Prins, NEBNIKRO, Renée Rossouw, Sarah Pratt, Tara Deacon & more. Expect to see collage, painting, photography, ceramics, monotypes, reverse glass works, and drawings, executed in a rich winter’s palette, articulated with cool midnight hues, and bursts of warm jewel colours. The space did feature large and medium sized works by the various exhibiting artists, as well as two group projects, including a collection of diminutive works.

INSTALLATION PREVIEW IN TURBINE #3 | ‘SHEATHED’ by JENNA BARBE

ARTWORKS:

ADELE VAN HEERDEN

AMBER MOIR

ANDREW SUTHERLAND

BERRY MEYER

BLACK KOKI

BRUCE MACKAY

CATHERINE HOLTZHAUSEN

CATHY LAYZELL

CHLOE TOWNSEND

GEORGINA BERENS

HEIDI FOURIE

JACO HAASBROEK

JEANNE HOFFMAN

JESSICA BOSWORTH SMITH

KATRINE CLAASSENS

KIRSTEN BEETS

KIRSTEN SIMS

LILI PROBART

LINSEY LEVENDALL

MARELI ESTERHUIZEN

MARIA VAN ROOYEN

…to follow

MATTHEW PRINS

NEBNIKRO

PAUL SENYOL

RENEE ROSSOUW

SARAH PRATT

TARA DEACON

ZARAH CASSIM

INVESTEC CAPE TOWN ART FAIR 2018

16.02 -18.02.2018

SALON NINETY ONE | BOOTH B4 | Cape Town International Convention Centre

Featured Artists:
Kirsten Beets
Zarah Cassim
Heidi Fourie
Black Koki
Cathy Layzell
Linsey Levendall
Tahiti Pehrson
Paul Senyol
Kirsten Sims
Maria van Rooyen

ARTWORKS:

BLACK KOKI

CATHY LAYZELL

COLLABORATION | CATHY LAYZELL AND PAUL SENYOL

HEIDI FOURIE

KIRSTEN BEETS

KIRSTEN SIMS

LINSEY LEVENDALL

MARIA VAN ROOYEN

PAUL SENYOL

TAHITI PEHRSON

ZARAH CASSIM

ARTIST BIOS:

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ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Black Koki

ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Cathy Layzell

ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Heidi Fourie

ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Kirsten Beets

ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Kirsten Sims

ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Linsey Levendall

ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Maria van Rooyen

ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Paul Senyol

ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Tahiti Pehrson

ARTIST BIO [CTAF2018] Zarah Cassim

FIELD

25.10 – 25.11.2017

Group Exhibition

Featured Artists:

Kirsten Beets
Georgina Berens
Heidi Fourie
Jeanne Hoffman
Kirsten Lilford
Berry Meyer
Natasha Norman
Gabrielle Raaff
Kirsten Sims

ARTWORKS:

KIRSTEN BEETS

GEORGINA BERENS

HEIDI FOURIE

JEANNE HOFFMAN

KIRSTEN LILFORD

BERRY MEYER

NATASHA NORMAN

GABRIELLE RAAFF

KIRSTEN SIMS

EXHIBITION INSTALLATION VIEWS

TREES MAKE FORESTS

02.12.2017 – 20.01.2018

SALON NINETY ONE end-of-year group show in aid of the Peninsula School Feeding Association | Saturday 02 December at 11AM | 91 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town

This year, 10% of all sales will go towards the Peninsula School Feeding Association and the many children they support.

Hungry children struggle to concentrate and the deficits of under-nutrition becomes irreversible if not addressed. The Peninsula School Feeding Association provides breakfasts and lunches to 27 270 hungry learners at a total of 160 educational institutions across the Western Cape. These meals provide regular balanced nutrition across all food groups as well as incentive to attend school and to help children focus on their studies. For more information, please visit their website.

For any enquiries, please contact the gallery on 021-424-6930

Exhibiting Artists:
Amber Moir
Andrew Sutherland
Berry Meyer
Black Koki
Carla Kreuser
Cathy Layzell
Donna Solovei
Gabrielle Raaff
Georgina Berens
Gerhard Human
Hanien Conradie
Heidi Fourie
Jaco Haasbroek
Jade Klara
Jeanne Hoffman
Katrine Claassens
Kirsten Beets
Kirsten Lilford
Kirsten Sims
Lara Feldman
Maaike Bakker
Mareli Esterhuizen
Maria Lebedeva
Matthew Prins
Maximillian Goldin
Mieke Van Der Merwe
Natasha Norman
Paul Senyol
Peter Claassens
Sean Gibson
Zarah Cassim

ARTWORKS:

AMBER MOIR

ANDREW SUTHERLAND

BERRY MEYER

BLACK KOKI

CARLA KREUSER

COLLABORATION: CATHY LAYZELL | PAUL SENYOL

DONNA SOLOVEI

GABRIELLE RAAFF

GEORGINA BERENS

GERHARD HUMAN