{"id":528,"date":"2005-01-21T13:27:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T11:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2005-02-03T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T18:00:31","slug":"jacki-mcinnes-and-james-de-villiers-at-gordart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/21\/jacki-mcinnes-and-james-de-villiers-at-gordart\/","title":{"rendered":"jacki mcinnes and james de villiers at gordart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/jackimcinnes.jpg?w=850\" alt=\"jacki mcinnes at gordart\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"meta\">jacki mcinnes&#8217; work at gordart<\/div>\n<p>OK, so admittedly, I didn&#8217;t have much time to spend at this show, but with a quick squizz through, I could see that Cape Town-based McInnes has a real mastery of evoking and provoking in the variety of media she works with. I love her use of metal, sand, text, cages and found objects to create spaces that could just as easily be ripe with stories as they are banal &#8211; but tend towards the former. And the fact that Robyn Sassen opened the show (titled <i>the vocabulary of ambiguity &#8211; for her<\/i>. which began 16 Jan and ends 29 Jan) leads me to believe that there is even more to her work than meets the eye (which is quite a bit).  James de Villiers also shows some work in <em>forty hand-painted pictures<\/em>, which exhibits in the far room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jacki mcinnes&#8217; work at gordart OK, so admittedly, I didn&#8217;t have much time to spend at this show, but with a quick squizz through, I could see that Cape Town-based McInnes has a real mastery of evoking and provoking in the variety of media she works with. I love her use of metal, sand, text, [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-8w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":424,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/04\/cypres-turbulence-franchise-gordart\/","url_meta":{"origin":528,"position":0},"title":"cypres, turbulence, franchise, gordart","author":"nathaniel","date":"04 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Left, there's a picture of Claire Metais, communication officer from cypres. 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