A contemplative solo exhibition contrasts with a curated group show featuring some of the art world’s biggest names this week.
? Artist Jonah Sack is devoted to drawing and his atmospheric illustrations seem to concentrate on the way humans engage with one another and with their space. In his first solo show, titled Reading Room, Sack will present his work (drawings, prints and artist’s books) as an exploration of the gallery space itself. The work has been produced on old postcards, suggesting far-off places and furthering the themes of place and space. “The space in the postcard is meant to evoke detachment or to suggest a kind of remote longing,” he says. He has a masters in fine art from the Glasgow School of Art and undertook a research residence in the manga department of Kyoto Seika University in Japan in 2006.
Gallery Art on Paper, 44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf, from October 8 to 29. The opening is on October 8 at 2pm. Tel: 011 726 2234. More information at: www.galleryaop.com.
? Sixty artists have contributed to curator Ricky Burnett’s extensive exhibition, Horse: Multiple Views of a Singular Beast. At the invitation of Mark Read of the Everard Read Gallery, Burnett invited many of the country’s best-known artists to entertain the idea of the horse: partner, victim, harbinger of power, item of property and symbol of sexuality. As a result, the works — on paper, film and canvas, and in sound, light and performance — challenge our perceptions of a creature that has evolved with humans and shared our triumphs and ordeals.
Artists include Beezy Bailey, Wayne Barker, Deborah Bell, Georgina Gratrix, the Handspring Puppet Company, Zwelethu Mthethwa and Wilma Cruise. A publication on the exhibition will be released in late October with contributions from well-known writers.
Everard Read and Circa on Jellicoe galleries, Rosebank, until October 30.
For the exhibition blog, visit: http://horsexhorse.tumblr.com