Review of a Visual Art Exhibition

Art Exhibition

The name of the gallery is Nirox Projects, and the name of the exhibition is “I TAKE IT ALL BACK”

The exhibition will be open from the 8^th June till the 8^th July 2014, Open from 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Sunday Mondays they are closed.

There are many artist that are participating in this show these are the following names:

Adele Adendorff, Colleen Alborough, Maaike Bakker, Vincent Bezuidenhout, Lien Botha, Tegan Bristow, Jean De Wet, Jayne Crawshay-Hall, Stephan Erasmus, Francois Jonker, Marlise Keith, Isabella Knemeyer, Dale Lawrence, Givan Lotz, Amita Makan, Maja Maljevic, Isabel Mertz, Dalene Victor Meyer, Elsabe Milandri, Daniella Mooney, John Murray, Marcus Neustetter, Lyndi Sales, Skullboy, Nina Torr, Mj Turpin.

NIROX projects is a gallery space affiliated to Nirox Foundation’s sculpture park and residency located 45 minutes outside of Johannesburg, in the heart of the Cradle of Humankind. The project space hosts regular exhibitions of both local and international artists. NIROXprojects, 264 Fox Street, Arts on Main, Maboneng Precinct, Johannesburg CBD.

The group exhibition I take it all back, aims to expose the instances between vulnerability and security, so often presented as an underlying dialogue within the works of the exhibiting artists.

The show explores aspects of shame, vulnerability, excess and embarrassment. It justifies the freedom and honesty that comes with not holding anything back – negotiating a sense of transparency, the works are a variation of works including photography, painting sculpturing, and fine arts.

There’s a variation of artist that are displaying their work, because this exhibition is Mixed Media therefore there is different types of works.

The mediums displayed in this exhibition vary from, photography, painting, sculpture and multimedia. The exhibition explores a gallery space that embodies the norms and boundaries, and the liminal space in between. This threshold becomes the breathing space, the contemplation of the dialogue that has been exposed within the constructed space.

I take it all back filters the relationship between the chaos and the more considered version thereof. 

The exhibition alludes therefore, to the ambiguous and the risky, and plots a relationship between the space and the viewer. The relationship between the exhibition to the local content is very different because I take it all back attempts to mediate the madness, yet also provide a space for it to exist in society.

Curated by Maaike Bakker & Jayne Crawshay-Hall NIROX projects is a gallery space affiliated to Nirox Foundation’s sculpture park, and is a very liberated space in terms of the displaying of the works, with good lighting to add more life to the gallery making the overall presentation of the works work together as a whole, so I think that the curatorial decisions taken when it comes to displaying the images play a major role to the works working together to create a visually appealing space.

The title of the work is “SUCK ME SLOWLY UNTIL I DISAPPEAR” (RED ROCKET FLAVOUR) (2014)

ISABEL MERTZ is the artist; the medium of the work is sculpturing

The appearance of the work is hard candy, with a variation of different dimensions to show the work in a more interesting way. The work shows us how the artist might have love for sweet things, telling by the way the work has been sculptured in a very well composed manner, with her paying careful attention to the colour and the detail of every piece, in order for it to create unity through the form of different shapes. I think that the conceptual intentions of the work is to show an ironic side to life, telling by the title of the work ”SUCK ME SLOWLY UNTIL I DISAPEAR”, I get an idea from the artist, who might be trying to communicate something quite serious but could be misunderstood at the same time.

The context of the work might also be telling us that we should live life to the fullest potential until we get what it is that we want in order for us to succeed
Exhibition