KIM SACKS GALLERY
CLEMENTINA
VAN DER WALT
KIM SACKS GALLERY
REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY
AT THE OPENING OF AN EXHIBITION OF
RECENT CERAMIC WORKS
BY
CLEMENTINA VAN DER WALT
OPENING: SATURDAY 20th JUNE 2009 -10am – 5pm
PREVIEW: FRIDAY 19TH JUNE 2009 – 10am – 5pm
THERE WILL BE A DISCUSSION
AND
“A WALK-ABOUT”
WITH CLEMENTINA AT 3 PM
ON THE DAY THE EXHIBITION OPENS
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
The Gallery is open Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday 10am to 5 pm
And any other time by appointment – and with great pleasure!
Secure parking on the Property
Phone the gallery for opening times…
Telephones: (011) 447-5804 –
After-hours number 27-11-726-6420 (emergencies only)
THE WORK ON THIS EXHIBITION WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE TO CLIENTS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO VISIT THE GALLERY IN PERSON - THROUGH E-MAIL – BY REQUEST.
GALLERY ALSO OFFERS A COMPREHENSIVE SHIPPING
ALTERNATIVE TO CLIENTS WHO DO NOT RESIDE IN
EXHIBITION CLOSES ON SATURDAY 11th July – 2009.
Clementina Van der Walt's platters, bowls and cups serve as objects both for use and for contemplation. Ceramic objects are intimate ones that enter our space. They are touched by hand and lip as well as eye and mind. They underscore the ritualistic understanding of ordinary daily activities. As such they are understood (and critically assessed) in terms of their own definition. A central theme in this discourse is tactility. A repulsive surface, rough and harsh, repels. So too does heaviness, an aspect that contradictorily can be assessed with the eye. Van der Walt's ceramics do not fail in this respect. They seduce with the invitation to touch their buttery surfaces inflected here and there with a splash of red, the colour of ox blood. Textures are played off each other, the smooth gloss interior of a plate where the food is to rest is set against the matt surface of the rim - sufficiently rough to speak of baked earth but not coarse enough to repel the hand. Van der Walt demonstrates her mastery of the medium. Her forms are free formed but unforced. They are lyrical and light. They make reference to the African cultural and physical landscape in the play of colour - a dark brown of wet earth against the ochre of burnt veldt; the khaki of grass against the white of cloud, and always the grace note of that wonderful ox blood red. Occasionally an African motif appears transmogrified into her personal decorative language
Living on the southern tip of the African continent means that the African way is often evoked and idealised. A favourite riposte in the debate over art and utilitarian craft forms is to fall back on the argument that art in
WILMA CRUISE
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