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Southern Guild Exhibition: Transformation -
Guy du Toit – Stoele/Chairs -
Guy du Toit – Stoele/Chairs -
David Krynauw – Jeppestown Play Bench -
Adam Birch – Awkward Is Beautiful and Bone Bench -
Madoda Fani - Inguqu Installation -
Chuma Maweni and Madoda Fani – Metamorphosis -
John Vogel – Beauty's in the Beast -
Xandre Kriel – Nag Stoel/Night Chair -
Stanislaw Trzebinski – Meza ya Mwamba -
Conrad Hicks – Wife Bench -
Jesse Ede – Lunar Bench -
Trevor Potter – The Hunter and the Croucher -
Stanislaw Trzebinski – Aquarius' Vessel -
Sanell Aggenbach – Baby It's Cold Outside -
Otto du Plessis – Syriacus Rothschild
WORDS Amelia Brown IMAGES Adriaan Louw
The lines between art and collectible design blur at the exciting group exhibition currently running at Cape Town’s Southern Guild.
“Does a sculpture become design if it offers a useful surface? Is a chair cast in bronze or carved in marble a sculpture?” These are the questions Southern Guild Director Julian McGowan posed to a select group of South African designers and artists who were commissioned for Transformation. The result is an exhibition, running into the New Year at the Southern Guild Gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town, that challenges the traditional understanding of where artwork ends and functional design begins.
“We are working in a sphere where function becomes dysfunction, where location and dislocation exist side by side, and intention and disturbance converge,” says Julian. Here, this has been presented through experimentation in material and scale.
The exhibition will include over 15 creatives with work by Adam Birch, Conrad Hicks, David Krynauw, Dokter and Misses, Driaan Claassen, Guy du Toit, Trevor Potter, Jesse Ede, John Vogel, Madoda Fani, Michael MacGarry, Otto Du Plessis, Sanell Aggenbach, Stanislaw Trzebinski and Xandre Kriel.
Visit Transformation at Southern Guild, Unit 1, 10 Lewin Street, Woodstock, Cape Town, until 20 February 2017.
