A new show explores the violence of conflict zones.
? Contemporary artist and clinical and educational psychologist Ronit Judelman’s new exhibition, Weapons of Mass Destruction, has biographical resonance. As a second-generation Holocaust survivor, Judelman’s self-confessed drive is to ‘aesthetise the deadly”. Besides being an expression of personal pain, her art also addresses global social issues. Inspired by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it has been transformed into an expression of catharthis, personal as well as political.
Circa on Jellicoe Gallery, 2 Jellicoe Road, Rosebank, daily from 9am until Sunday July 10. For more information on the exhibition, phone 011 768 4805 or visit www.circaonjellicoe.co.za. To read more about Judelman and to see her work, visit www.ronitjudelman.com.
? The contrast between the material used by German sculptor Robert Schad — solid, hard, heavy steel bars — and the light, almost weightless appearance of his sculptures is explored and played with in his exhibition, Steel Time, at Arts on Main in the Maboneng Precinct in Jo’burg. Schad’s sculptures examine the line and physical movement created by the steel structures, comparable to drawings in space.
Seippel Gallery at Arts on Main, 264 Fox Street, Maboneng Precinct, Jo’burg. Entrance is free. For a little taste of Schad’s work, visit www.artnet.com/artists/robert-schad.