Port Elizabeth: MyPE - Present and Scheduled Art Museum Exhibitions

www.MyPE.co.za: From now until 11 April 2010 you can view a selection of 20th Century South African Art. This is an exhibition of works spanning the 20th Century from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum's Permanent Collections.

Early 20th Century South African artists on show include some of those associated with the New Group who were influenced by avant-garde art in Europe. Famous names in this group include Maggie Loubser, Maude Sumner, Walter Battiss, Wolf Kibel and Gregoire Boonzaaier, who was one of the founding members.

Two famous family groups represented are Dorothy Kay and her daughter Joan Wright, together with Bertha Everard and her two daughters Ruth and Rosamund, who form part of the Everard group. Working as excluded artists under apartheid during the 50s and 60s were George Pemba and Gerard Bhengu.

Highlights from the late part of the 20th Century include works by William Kentridge, Helen Sibidi and Penny Siopis. Landscapes by artists Robert Brooks, Jennifer Crooks and Nigel Mullins, who were influenced by or participated in the Grahamstown Group, hang alongside conceptual landscapes by Keith Dietrich and Larry Scully.

Directly after visit and see a collection of Animals in art until 2 May 2010.

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum's exhibition entitled Animals in Art features a menagerie of animals and other creatures, both weird and wonderful, from the Art Museum's permanent collections.

The works include paintings, drawings and sculptures that are grouped according to themes featuring domestic and wild animals, farm animals in pastoral settings, insects and abstract creatures and monsters of the deep.

The artists have looked at animals and nature for inspiration, from Hylton Nel's humorous worm and delightfully expressive cats to Gladys Mgudlandlu's red-beaked crows, Ardmore Studio's animal inspired designs, Derrick Erasmus's exaggerated chameleons and Walter Oltmann's cockroach.

Parralel to the Animals in Art exhibit Photography and video from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum's Permanent Collections will be on display from 17 April to 16 May 2010.

This exhibition represents the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum's determination to achieve a top photographic and video collection. Highlights include video art by internationally acclaimed artists Berni Searle and Churchill Madikida as well as local Eastern Cape artist Brent Meistre. Nomusa Makhubu's set of three photographic prints, Inquietude, will be on show with a selection from two very important portfolios which represent Nelson Mandela Bay, Rob Duker's Red Location series and Marc Shoul's Beyond Walmer.

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