Skateboarding, graffiti, comics and design have not only affected fashion, music, literature and film but have also influenced a crop of young artists
? Giving voice to a new generation of young underground street artists is the new Durban contemporary art space, the Collective, whose new show, Follow Your Art, reflects the influence of youth culture on contemporary creativity. Skateboarding, graffiti, comics and design have not only affected fashion, music, literature and film but have also influenced a crop of young artists who identify with the lifestyle and counterculture these represent. Besides work in all mediums by more than 50 artists, Follow Your Art includes music, album covers, skateboards and zines that reveal the spirit and vitality of street culture and its ever-expanding influence on the youth.
The Collective, 48b Florida Road. Opening Monday September 5 at 6pm with live performances by Danti Daxi, the Otherwise and Asleep in Transit. Runs until October 1. Tel: 031 303 4891.
? Two classical art mediums are given a contemporary twist in Further, a series of bronze sculptures and oil paintings by Sarah Richards, who describes bronze as “a wonderful medium — versatile, strong, durable and aesthetically pleasing”. Richards has been creating bronze sculptures for the past 10 years. In this exhibition she extends her exploration and understanding of the male body, which represents her masculine element — organised, linear, strong, physical, athletic, yearning to be free and desperate to control her environment and her life. Also on show is extraOrdinary, an exhibition of photographs by Sally Giles — a dispassionate pictorial document of the South African middle class.
artSPACE durban, 3 Millar Road, off Umgeni Road, until September 10. Tel: 031 312 0793. Visit: www.artspace-durban.com.