Now Showing
Big Wednesday - Summer Group Exhibition
10 December 2008 - 17 January 2009
OPENING: Wednesday 10 December 2008 18h00 - 21h00
Holiday Season Viewing Times: Open Throughout, but closed Dec. 25, 26, 31, and Jan 1
Installation View
BIG WEDNESDAY
“Stay Casual, Barlow!”
- ‘Fly’ ( Robert Englund, Big Wednesday )*
For its final show of 2008, Whatiftheworld / Gallery will present a major group exhibition entitled Big Wednesday,* the first in a series of annual summer group shows. This year’s exhibition is co-curated by Julia Rosa Clark & Daniel Levi, and features a collection of new works by both resident and associated artists from Whatiftheworld.
The gallery’s stable of noteworthy talent includes up-and-coming young painter Andrzej Nowicki (now based in New York), who will be submitting a series of new watercolours and works on paper in his signature style. Matthew Hindley has recently returned from a successful 3-month studio residency in Berlin, and will be showing a selection of new large scale oil paintings. Gifted Michaelis Prize winner Rowan Smith will be submitting two new works, and has just been selected for the exhibition ‘Objects of a Revolution’ at Gallerie Fiat in Paris in January 2009. In collaboration with Brodie/Stevenson in Johannesburg, Athi-Patra Ruga will be exhibiting selected works from his recent solo exhibition …of bugchasers and watussi faghags.
Other participating artists include: ABSA L’Atelier Winner James Webb, Zander Blom (who will be featured at Kucke+Kuckei in Berlin - January 2009), new paintings by Tom Cullberg as well as a new work by Dan Halter (MTN New Signatures 2008). Also expect to see selected works by AVANT CAR GUARD, Stuart Bird, Linda Stupart, Liam Lynch, Georgina Gratrix, and others.
2008 was a year that saw some significant firsts for Whatiftheworld, including their successful participation in the inaugural Johannesburg Art Fair, a debut London exhibition, the launch of a new publications department, as well as features in a number of international publications (most recently W Magazine). In 2009, the gallery looks to expand its profile and network overseas with 3 international art fairs scheduled, as well as the introduction of several new artists to the programme.
*Big Wednesday , 1978 , A Coming of Age film about a group of young surfers poised for success, failure and change in their lives as the world transforms around them.
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