Michelle Matthews
Alliance Franaise, 155 Loop Street. Steve Daly, a twotime Emmy Awardwinning documentary producer for CNN, presents images from Nepal and Tibet. Until April 31. Tel: 423 5699.
Arts Association of Bellville, Library Centre, Carel van Aswegen Street, Bellville. Cristina Bryer holds a ceramics exhibition, called Sacred Geometry, in the Vestibule Gallery. The association presents regular workshops call for details. Tel: 918 2301.
Association for Visual Arts, 35 Church Street. Three exhibitions run here simultaneously until May 5. Photographer Roger Ballen shows work from his latest book, Outland. His previous works have been photodocumentary, but these new pictures have more fictional elements. Diana Page exhibits new paintings in the Long Gallery. Her works, which border on abstraction, are narratives of her life in the city. Pierre Antoine, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, shows photographs he took during a National Geographic workshop in Cuba. Website: www.ava.co.za. Tel: 424 7436.
Bang the Gallery, 21 Pepper Street. Worth of the Sky/Colour of My Land is the latest exhibition by Alex Hamilton at his own gallery. Until May 11. On May 12 and 13, The Villainous Animators will have an exhibition of live graffiti art here. Tel: 422 1477.
Chelsea Gallery, 51 Waterloo Road, Wynberg. An exhibition of multimedia canvases, collages and sculptures by Hannes Harrs runs until May 12. Tel: 761 6805.
DCArt, Riebeeck Square. Marlise Keith shows Kroesies Porcelain, an exhibition of mixedmedia works on etching paper that is an “apology to her mother because she disregards her as an individual”. Until May 19. Tel:423 6939.
Hnel Gallery, 84 Shortmarket Street. Currently showing is Nigel Mullins’s Hopeful Monsters. The artist has painted semiabstract heads and has also created An Aesthetic for Cruelty and Violence, 42 interrelated paintings. Until May 31. Tel: 423 1406.
In Fin Art, V&A Waterfront. See Uwe Pfaff’s mythinspired new works in metal here. Tel: 418 4008.
Joo Ferreira Fine Art, 80 Hout Street. In association with the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, Joo Ferreira presents new paintings and monotypes by Robert Hodgins. In celebration of his recent 80th birthday, Hodgings has produced works in his trademark style, treating serious and sinister themes with surface humour and vibrant colour. Tel: 423 5403.
Klarity Art Gallery, 59 Lower Main Road, Observatory. There will be two exhibitions in this newish gallery during May. From May 1 to 15, United Kingdom artist Helen Johnson exhibits dynamic charcoal and mixedmedia drawings reflecting her outsider’s perspective of South African life. After that, Evan Oberholster, who was exhibiting at Fiddlewoods, shows nudes here until the end of May. Tel: 448 2322.
Lipschitz Modern, 138 Buitengragt Street. From May this renamed gallery hosts exhibitions by cuttingedge artists, curated by themselves.
NationalLibrary of South Africa, 5 Queen Victoria Street. A collection of memorabilia and documents pertaining to the AngloBoer South African War, called Reconciling Our Losses, is on view until April 30.
Oak and Vine Art Gallery, Greyton. The gallery hosts an exhibition of paintings by Piet Kannemeyer and Derric van Rensburg until April 30. Tel: 082 576 2160.
Obz Caf, 115 Lower Main Road, Observatory. On the Way Up features two artists Scott Fowler with his series called The Big Wave and Vuyisa Nyamende with his Afropop paintings. The exhibition opens on Sunday April 28 and there will be a wine tasting at 6pm. Tel: 448 5555.
Rose Korber Art Consultancy, 43 Sedgemoor Road, Camps Bay. Korber has sourced some exciting new works by perennial collector’s favourites William Kentridge, Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell, Sam Nhlengenthwa and Robert Slingsby. Tel: 423 4682.
South African National Gallery, Government Avenue, Cape Town. Two new exhibitions opened recently. Exchange Values by Shelley Sacks is an installation that has as its basis 20 boxes of Windward Island bananas. The artist traced each box back to its origin in the Caribbean and recorded the voices of the growers. There will be a walkabout of this installation on Thursday April 26 at 1.05pm. Inferno and Paradiso showcases 18 of the world’s most acknowledged photojournalists. Each photographer was asked to choose two pictures their most painful and most joyful which are presented as alternating slide projections. Also see in view of you, a multimedia exhibition by artistinresidence Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, until April 28. The installation looks at the effects of the bombings in Cape Town between 1998 and 2000 on those who were there and was developed in collaboration with Veronika Klaptocz, Renate Meyer, Jane Appleby and James Webb. Soul of Africa, which opens on May 19, is a selection of African art collected by Swiss connoisseur Han Corey. Patrons pay R5 entrance. Closed on Mondays. Tel: 465 1628.