The Durban Art Gallery will be entering into the 2010 fever with an exhibition curated from the permanent collection and other collections. It will be held in the rectangular gallery which will be transformed into an installation resembling a football pitch.

Stern colonial figures peer down from the walls. The space is almost a perfectly proportioned football pitch, but the chalk markings are not regulation: they reflect another set of rules we are going to have to learn. Football-type figures rub shoulders with Mr Wobblyman; scale is distorted, and order absent in some spaces and militarised in other areas - reminiscent of an army command operation’s room layout with tiny icons being pushed about to represent a battlefield. The action draws
different players in - only to discard them and move on.

Image: Isolde Krams
The Monument 1985
Cement fondue, resin & oil
H: 183 cm


Gallery details

Name:	Durban Art Gallery
Phone:	031 2023072
Address:	31 Clyde Ave, Berea, Durban.