{"id":851,"date":"2005-10-21T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2005-10-21T08:47:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T06:47:30","slug":"jo-ractliffe-warren-siebrits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/jo-ractliffe-warren-siebrits\/","title":{"rendered":"jo ractliffe @ warren siebrits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jo Ractliffe, from her Real Life series, at Warren Siebrits gallery, Johannesburg
\nJo Ractliffe, from her Real Life<\/i> series, at Warren Siebrits<\/a> gallery, Johannesburg<\/small><\/p>\n

The beautiful and amazing Jo Ractliffe exhibits yet another beautiful and amazing show at Warren Siebrits<\/a> this month. The show opened on Tuesday eve (I had to go and leave early, since I teach those nights) to a crowd of interested and excited artists, scholars, art appreciators and your other usual suspects.<\/p>\n

The show is a follow up to her last Selected Works 1982-1999<\/i> exhibition at Siebrits, which focused solely on black and white, while this is color images and a video installation (Love, Death, Sacrifice and so forth<\/i>, 1999). It leaves out some of her more famous pieces to make room for new work: Real Life<\/i> (as above).<\/p>\n

The Real Life<\/i> series began as a bit of ‘an aside,’ maybe a joke, for Jo, when she was working on something else. It consists of images revealing garden-based plastic figurines, and surburban skies, at night and with a flash, printed on polished plastic. The finished works are obvious, ironic, funny, and would look great in my flat.<\/p>\n

Man, she is so clever.<\/p>\n

Also shown are some provocative strips from her Johannesburg Inner City Works<\/i> collaboration. Obviously, I believe Jo’s exhibitions to all, always be, must sees<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jo Ractliffe, from her Real Life series, at Warren Siebrits gallery, Johannesburg The beautiful and amazing Jo Ractliffe exhibits yet another beautiful and amazing show at Warren Siebrits this month. 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