implicit art

^{from Laure Djourado’s Metaphysique du lien}

So after my illness, my trip, and all my busy bees  of bumbly beginnings in the new year, I’m finally starting to emerge again and cover artwork in Jozi a bit more. My guest bloggers, it seems, have mostly deserted me (I’m still, and always, open for more, if you want to cover art or the like in your area!), but I’m still trucking…

On Sunday, I hit the Gordart opening of  UPS and DOWNS (Susan Jowell and Ellen Papciak-Rose) in Melville. Lots of red and green stickers on paintings and prints that have a formula like:

I had missed Gordon’s opening of his project room the week before – very exciting, this space is for short, 2-week exhibitions of artists who’ve shown little (or not at all) in Johannesburg. He starts with  Laure Djourado’s Metaphysique du lien from Paris. These are also very fun and interesting and sexy and new – a nice juxtaposition with the aforementioned. The G-man and I spoke about a second potential Project Room that can be for on-the-fly art (this one is already booked for the whole year!), and perhaps a connection between it and SAartsEmerging.