Rooftop II, a Group exhibition
31 Jul 10 - 28 Aug 10
An indoor and outdoor sculpture exhibition entitled Rooftop II will be hosted at the UJ Art Gallery from Saturday 31 July to 28 August 2010. This show, including over 60 works by 48 artists, will be curated by Gordon Froud.
Froud has a long history of curating exhibitions all over South Africa and is an active sculptor with more than 300 exhibitions to his credit. He also curated the previous Rooftop exhibition that was shown at St Lorient Art and Fashion Gallery in Pretoria and went on to a very successful run at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery that has a rooftop grass park designed as a sculpture park.
This exhibition was hugely successful drawing hundreds to the opening and garnering various media articles and television coverage. Based on its success, Lucy Anastasiadis of St Lorient again asked Gordon Froud to curate Rooftop II for the Pretoria venue, this time to coincide with the world cup in June and July. Froud suggested a subtheme of glass as sculpture for this year’s show to which artists were encouraged to respond but were not held to at all. This has resulted in interesting collaborations between sculptors and glass artists.
The UJ Art Gallery has invited the show to be moved to their gallery in August where it will be shown outdoors. A larger sculpture show will be showcased in the magnificent gallery indoors affording a greater number of sculptors to participate.
Some of the artists participating include Lukas Thobejane, Marina Aguiar, Craig Muller, Patrick Jabour, Paul Boulitreau, Renier le Roux, Stephanie Fassler, Retief and Marilene Van Wyk, Rhuan Janse Van Rensburg, Richard Forbes, Ronit Judelman, Rosemarie Marriott, Rossouw Van der Walt, Sanna Swart, Moses Seleko, St John Fuller, John Hodgkiss, Steven Delport, Sybrand Wiechers, Seitisho, Isolde Krams, Robin Geduld and Zweletu Nanise.
The exhibition will be opened by Antoinette Murdoch, chief curator the Johannesburg Art Gallery on 31 July 2010 at 12:00.
Image: Sybrand Wiechers: Title: “Says I” Medium: steel
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