The Photographers Gallery za & ERDMANNCONTEMPORARY is proud to announce our association with the Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome, Italy. Since November 2009, we have hosted two projects as part of this new exchange program. The exhibition The World Needs Us, featuring the work of Karlien de Villiers, Collen Maswanganyi, Norman O’Flynn and Nomusa Makhubu was very well received by both public and media in Italy. The exhibition was opened by the South African Ambassador to Italy Ms Thenjiwe Ethel Mtintso. Makhubu and de Villiers both lecturers at universities in South Africa, presented illustrated talks about their work at the University of Rome.
The exhibition is currently on view at KYO Gallery in Viterbo (just outside Rome). Here the exhibition will form part of the VITARTE Art Fair and within that, it will form part of the festival L‘ Africa in their eyes – art from Sub-Saharan Africa.
We are all totally indebted to the staff of the South African Embassy in Rome for their support. In particular, Laura Allidi who was instrumental in securing the Viterbo leg of this tour.
The World Needs Us exhibition travels to Naples, Italy for an exhibition during May.
The Photographers Gallery za was extremely honored to host the debut solo exhibition by the Italian photographer, Erik Chevalier as part of this exchange program. Chevalier, was born in Rome, with a French father and Danish mother, grew up in Italy, moved to Ghana as a teenager and then settled in Canada for nearly a decade. In between that he studied briefly in Denmark.
His exhibition, The Family Safe, focuses on Chevalier paternal grandfather’s photo album. Most of the photographs had been removed over the years. The album had become a book with descriptions of places and people no one knew or remembered. Chevalier set out to take (or find) photographs which fitted the descriptions. Some of the photographs included had been taken by Chevalier while on holiday between the ages 6 and 10 years old. This fine exhibition was very well received and enjoyed by all who came to view it!
Chevalier lives and works in Sardinia. He is a self taught specialized tromp l’oeil painter.
If you missed this exhibition, view it here
Chevalier will be back in Cape Town by the end of this year for his next project.
Erdmann Contemporary is proud to announce that gallery artist Jan Neethling is included in the Bonhams Africa Now March 2010 auction opening on Wednesday 10 March 2010 in New York.Congratulations Jan!
Acrylic on board
121 x 93 cm
2009