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12 June 2006 by nathaniel

V / A & P (various art and press) updated below

The closing party this weekend at Outlet went well – aside from the aforementioned NY Arts and MacFormat features on the series, also check out these glowing reviews in Die Beeld (English translation) and Pretoria News; there’s not a bad one on LQF, either. Abrie has decided to let the show run an extra week, so get out to TUT campus if you haven’t yet!

Finally, take a look at my flickr to see pix from the closing on Saturday, from the Memento performance yesterday, and new images of Sidonie – now 20 days old!

update – beeld article translation now live (rumor has it that the original Afrikaans is way more poetic, but you get the idea)

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08 June 2006 by nathaniel

40x40x40 @ gordart

From Gordon Froud’s press release:

The concept behind this show is to showcase 40 youngish artists from across the racial and sexual classifications in South Africa in such a way that the works create conversations … [It takes] 10 of each male and female, black and white artists and gets them to make work within the same limitations resulting in a ‘supposedly’ truly representative(?) show.
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Each artist was required to make a piece of work 40cm x 40 cm (Frames were provided to keep a uniformity of visual appearance.) These were displayed as an exhibition at KKNK.
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Following on its success at the Klein Karoo Nationale Kunste Fees in Oudtshoorn, this show is being shown at gordart Gallery in June alongside a selection of other works selected from the festival by Gordon Froud. These include: Chris Diedericks (winner of the best show on the festival), Sandra Hanekom, Robert / Adle Hamblin, Colijn Stryjdom and Franci Cronje.

Nice show – especially the video work, including a beautiful piece by Franci Cronje and moving (as in touching, as in emotional) work by Robert / Adle Hamblin. Shout out to Ellen Papciak-Rose.

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02 June 2006 by nathaniel

Compressionism WorldWide

I was at Outlet yesterday, discussing my Time and Seeing exhibition of Compressionist prints with Brenton Maart. Maart normally does the Gauteng art listings for the Mail & Guardian, but we met about this show for a small review he’s doing in the next Art South Africa magazine. I never get over how happy it makes me when people respond very positively to my work… Also look out for Franci Cronje’s review of the show in Die Beeld next week.

This chat, and Cronje’s review, are timed really well, given that South Africa finally has the May issue of MacFormat magazine in stock, which has a full-color back page feature on me and the Compressionist series – click here, or on the thumbnail below, to read their take, see the images.

Don’t miss the Time and Seeing closing party at Outlet on 10 June (next Saturday), 16h00 – 24 du Toit Street, Building 10, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria.

Time and Seeing exhibits selections from nathaniel stern’s Compressionism – a "digital performance and analog archive.” Stern traverses bodies, spaces and objects with his scanner face, while the head is in motion. After being Compressed into digital images the size of a small sheet of paper, the files are then stretched, cropped and colored by hand. Compressionism is an exploration of media and perception, a transfiguration in Time and Seeing.

Compressionism in MacFormat magazine

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18 May 2006 by nathaniel

Humor and Materials

(Forgive the quality of this image – I broke my crap camera and will from now on be taking gallery pix on my even more crap phone…)

Spent much of Monday with Gordon Froud and Franci Cronje, both of whom will be writing pieces about my current show at Outlet gallery in Pretoria (Franci for Beeld, Gordon will see where he wants to publish after he writes it). After spending some time talking about my work with them, I head over to Gordon (the gallerist at Gordart)’s studio for the first time – it’s awesome. He’s got a collection of art, CDs, records and books that may just rival Warren Siebrits’, but Gordon mostly uses them to produce his own odd juxtapositional art. i think the most interesting thing in Gordon’s studio must be his collection of large pots and pans – the sourced / found objects he’ll be using to produce a huge 3D mobile for a recent CSIR (Science and Technology) commission. (Shown right, just half of one leg of this many-metered monstrosity.)

It was actually the first time I took a close look at Froud’s body of work (he took me through the books), and I have to say I’m a little humbled and awestruck by the scale, amount, and committment of/to his seriously/funny history.

Froud – where can we see more / online? The things you do with cups….

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