Running in the KZNSA’s Park Contemporary Gallery is Cheryl
Penn’s An Encyclopaedia of Everything and
Other Matters.
Since concluding her Masters Degree in 2010 and the
accompanying exhibition, The Reading Room,
Cheryl Penn has continued to investigate the artists’ book as an art medium.
The schizoid nature of these works - textual/verbal,
visual/pictorial and public/private has meant that this form of art can flaunt
such a complex multiplicity of forms that “the book will never be done”. We
live in Technology Times, where prognosticators continually predict the death
of the book, but exhibitions such as this prove that “everything in the world
exists in order to end up in a book.” - Stephané Mallarmé (1876)
The exhibition displays Cheryl Penn’s current work in
progress - the international collection, collaboration and display of over 385
small bookworks explicitly assembled for an installation titled An Encyclopedia of Everything. Other
book collaborations and artists’ books are also on display.
An Encyclopaedia of
Everything and Other Matters runs at the KZNSA Gallery until October 26. The
KZNSA Gallery is situated at 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood, in Durban. More
information on 031 277 1703, fax 031 201 8051 or cell 082 220 0368 or visit www.kznsagallery.co.za
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