{"id":1284,"date":"2006-07-30T23:22:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T21:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/30\/ismail-farouk-and-the-parking-gallery\/"},"modified":"2006-07-31T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T05:53:15","slug":"ismail-farouk-and-the-parking-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/30\/ismail-farouk-and-the-parking-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"ismail farouk and the parking gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JHB626GP,
JHB626GP<\/em>, on the parking gallery roof. Photo by Christo Doherty<\/sup><\/p>\n

JHB626GP, <\/em>Ismail Farouk’s solo exhibition of a video produced for the Venice architectural biennale and photographs shot of a burning house in Ellis Park, was an amazing testament to the urbane provocations alive and well in downtown johannesburg.  Between a great SAarts article by Rat Western<\/a> and Matthew Krouse’s interview in the M&G<\/a>, a lot has already been said recently about this entertainer \/ artist – I highly recommend both of these pieces, and won’t repeat their content here. I will say that his evocative and emotive images resounded with a plea to look again and work at our country, while his stylistic video (I could admittedly have done without the Mendoza track in the sound, but rumour has it that the British producers insisted, believing it to be more ‘authentically’ South African) portrayed a sympathetic but vibrant rhythm to our city.<\/p>\n

I am biased, without doubt, but I also think this show concretizes Simon Gush as one of SA’s rising gallerist stars. His experience as an exhibition hanger, dabbling with curatorship, and artistic sensibilities – as well as an innate fearlessness around risks and complex set-ups – helped to create the perfect spaces for Farouk’s cityworks.<\/p>\n

Best show I’ve been to in a long while. Congratulations to Ismail, Simon, Rat and Max. (And to Lindsay Bremner, for a great opening speech – a textured and inviting mediation in under 5 minutes, as an opening text should be…. And that was the most unpretentious use of Deleuze I’ve ever heard…. She and Farouk are the leftmost peops in the pic below. Oh, and many thanks to Christo Doherty for the use of his beautiful photos.)<\/p>\n

\"Lindsay
Lindsay Bremner and Ismail Farouk, left, in front of the latter’s images at his solo exhibition.
Parking Gallery, Johannesburg. Photo by Christo Doherty<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JHB626GP, on the parking gallery roof. Photo by Christo Doherty JHB626GP, Ismail Farouk’s solo exhibition of a video produced for the Venice architectural biennale and photographs shot of a burning house in Ellis Park, was an amazing testament to the urbane provocations alive and well in downtown johannesburg.  Between a great SAarts article by Rat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,4,9,25,13,2,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-reviews","category-simon-gush","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-kI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1355,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/sightings-of-robert-sloon-parking-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":1284,"position":0},"title":"Sightings of Robert Sloon @ Parking Gallery","author":"nathaniel","date":"10 October 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Robert Sloon, editor of South Africa\u2019s Best Contemporary Art Gossip Blog ArtHeat, is having his first solo show at The Parking Gallery on the 13 of October at 6pm.\u00a0 The one-night event will present a series of photographs, entitled Sightings of Robert Sloon.\u00a0 It will also be the first acknowledged\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/sloon.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1269,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/07\/unseen-video-nathaniel-stern-parking-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":1284,"position":1},"title":"Unseen Video: nathaniel stern @ Parking Gallery","author":"nathaniel","date":"07 July 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.parking-gallery.net 149 Pritchard Street, downtown Johannesburgnathaniel sternUnseen Videovideo art produced but not yet screened in South Africaopening 13 July 18h00 by appointment til 16 Julyscreen shot from \u201cat interval\u201dThese two video pieces, both part of nathaniel\u2019s \u201clanguage lapse\u201d series,\u00a0 use found footage and pop iconography, along with a combination of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"parking gallery","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/image.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1209,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/17\/bronwyn-lace-parking-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":1284,"position":2},"title":"Bronwyn Lace @ Parking Gallery","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 June 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Bronwyn Lace, 1.618 @ KZNSA Bronwyn Lace 77\/21Opening 22 June 7:30 Until 12 July http:\/\/www.parking-gallery.net 149 Pritchard StreetSecure parking available in basementFor directions to gallery:http:\/\/www.parking-gallery.net\/images\/map.jpgViewing by appointment only, For more information contact Bronwyn on 0832844726 or Lester on 0835158704","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bronwyn Lace, 1.618 @ KZNSA","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/50\/129903600_46741bc95f.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":407,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/consular\/","url_meta":{"origin":1284,"position":3},"title":"consular","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 August 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Ismail Mahomed and Mary Jeffers, from the Public Affairs office of the American Consulate here in Johannesburg. 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