n o | t h i n g to see in Cape Town
n o | t h i n g, a show of intentionality and a reaction against the filling up of art with meaningless and superfluous things, is running at the UCA Gallery, 46 Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town, from 18 November to 12 December 2009.
The contemporary art exhibition n o | t h i n g links together a group of five innovative artists into a mergence that explores those blank, empty and evaded spaces that exist in space, mind and emotion.
The show finds the gallery space divided into allocated areas, starting with Bronwyn Lace, who has worked an installation into an existing space occupied by nothing. 'Anemophilous' - which literally means 'wind loving' - is an installation articulating the progression of a concept that has evolved from the simulation of dandelions blowing in the wind to the de-construction of a found-object - a pheasant hide - and its subsequent re-construction into suspension. Consequently, feathers have been systematically dispersed through space.
The negation of emotion
Engaging in a dialogue about the negation of emotion, Greg Streak exhibits installation works that are bleached of emotion. Using a monotone colour scheme, Streak's clever conceptualisation embodies minimal works that are about nothing, but naturally about something.
Seduced by liminal spaces, Trasi Henen re-interprets things that are still waiting to become something into dryly analytical, yet sensuous paintings. She ambiguously explores the empty spaces left behind by something or someone that is missing.
The nude areas of the page
Ricky Burnett's streamings of consciousness over 12 works on paper in a series of marks, scribblings and gestures, exposes the nude areas of the page. Highly evocative, he allows a deceptive naivety to occupy what is essentially a blank page, a place of personal space.
Performing a sound installation using no-input sound on the opening night, Righard Kapp will produce unique sound art that will be recorded and looped during the course of the exhibition. Kapp's intuitive improvisational process generates complex and sublime sound-scapes that explore infinity.
Bronwyn Lace, Greg Streak, Ricky Burnett, Righard Kapp and Trasi Henen look at the concept of nothing and reveal those empty spaces we experience. A show of intentionality and a reaction against the filling up of art with meaningless and superfluous things; works without frills, without things, with nothing added on are compiled into this definitively minimal show.
UCA Gallery
+27 (0)21 447 4132 | info@ucagallery.co.za |www.ucagallery.co.za
46 Lower Main Road | Observatory | Cape Town | 7925
Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm | Sat 9am - 1pm
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