(Work by Leoni Needham)
Isabel Roos, curator and owner of Imbizo gallery in Ballito,
has gathered together five specific artists for an absorbing joint exhibition
which offers an intriguing mix of sculpture and painting.
A rather fresh take on this shared exhibition is that Roos
has concentrated on inviting predominantly sculptors, as opposed to painters,
for a showing of some vastly different styles and skills ‘in the round’.
Terri Broll, who has a Master’s degree in Fine Art and a
Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, will anchor the exhibition’s wall space
with her extraordinarily strong paintings which she chooses to describe as a
kind of ‘fascination horror’. She works in oil and wax, the wax giving the work
a texture that suggests images that are both disturbing and humorous.
The theme and title of the exhibition is No Tomorrow, which according to sculptor
Marke Meyer, was chosen as he and his fellow artists and colleagues live and
create in this way. “To create, an artist needs to immerse himself in the
present. One loses track of time,” he explains, “hours may pass without the
artist being aware of it. When I get into this incredible space, it’s as if
there is ‘No Tomorrow’. One lives in the moment with a reckless abandon.”
Izidro Duarte agrees with a twinkle in his eye and adds that
creating as if there was ‘No Tomorrow’ urges him not to let the fear of future
consequences deter him “from pursuing the work which gains a life of its own in
the present moment. It’s liberating.”
The remaining two sculptors, Michael Canadas and Leoni
Needham, are known throughout South Africa and abroad as the co-founders of The
Loop Art Foundry. They have been responsible for casting a great deal of state
commissioned sculpture in-between casting the work of more than 400 individual
sculptors’ work. Nowadays, Michael heads the foundry on his own, but both
remain sculptors of considerable stature.
In summary, artists exhibiting include Marke Meyer, Izidro
Duarte, Michael Canadas, Leoni Needham and the ‘painter amongst the thorns’,
Terri Broll.
The exhibition will be opened by actress and presenter
Barbie Meyer at Imbizo Gallery in the Ballito Life Style Centre on August 14 at
18h30. Everyone is welcome to come along to the exhibition, enjoy a glass of
wine and chat to the artists who will be in attendance. The exhibition will
then be open daily until September 30, 2014.
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