The ‘apocalyptic’ is a saturated field of representation comprising stock imagery and a worn currency of metaphor and metonymy. How might art face up to droll dystopian fantasies of social and environmental collapse? How might it challenge the oddly consoling idea of absolute conclusion? How, in doing so, might art subvert theological logic and, in doing so, help to secularize the imagination?
For this group exhibition the curators have selected a small number of artists who they feel work in contexts and/or methods consistent with ‘End Times’ musings. The exhibition represents a variety of media – painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and video.
apocalypse Diane Victor dystopia environment geo-political Goethe Institut group exhibition Jacki McInnes Jane Alexander Jyoti Mistry Marianne Halter Mario Marchisella Michael MacGarry Moffat Takadiwa Mohau Modisakeng pro Helvetia Stephen Cohen Susan Bristow UCT utopia Volker März WAM Collection Willem Boshoff WITS
Participating artists: Jane Alexander, Willem Boshoff, Steven Cohen, Mario Marchisella & Marianne Halter, Michael MacGarry, Volker März, Jacki McInnes, Jyoti Mistry, Mohau Modisakeng, Moffat Takadiwa, Diane Victor, WAM Collection: Susan Bristow
Curators: Jacki McInnes, Jyoti Mistry, Michael Titlestad
Essays by: Jyoti Mistry, Michael Titlestad
Gallery: Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg; Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town
Dates: 15 March – 29 May 2016 (Wits Art Museum), 11 July – 5 August 2016 (Michaelis Galleries)
Website: (Review) http://artthrob.co.za/2016/09/09/student-review-when-tomorrow-comes/
Pages: 22
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