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\"Venice<\/a><\/p>\n

16 April 2015<\/p>\n

The South African Pavilion at this year\u2019s Art Biennale will be curated by Christopher Till and Jeremy Rose. The title of the exhibition is What remains is tomorrow.<\/p>\n

What remains is tomorrow<\/em>
\nTaking their cue from Okwui Enwezor\u2019s title for the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, All the World\u2019s Futures, Rose and Till present an array of works by artists who are deeply invested in local iterations of power, freedom, and civil liberty. The curators wish not only to represent recent, important work from South Africa, but also to set in motion a complex and dynamic debate about the relationship between the contemporary moment and the narratives of the past.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, they have sought ways of inserting new works into a series of historic moments without, in any way, making those moments explicit or suggesting a crass opposition to or identification with history. Rather, they see\u2014and seek to represent\u2014the past as an alluvial undertow in South Africa\u2019s fractured and multivocal present, a stream of dreams, desires, and memories that frequently boil to the surface in ways both useful and destructive.<\/p>\n

The contemporary works on the exhibition pose a series of counter moves. Some are little interested in history and focus instead on ruptures in the present. Some embed themselves in regurgitated narratives of liberation and national identity with the view to unsettling the certainties of these narratives. Some, through their representation of the fraught particularities and singularities of individual lives, interrogate the grand myths of democracy and nation building. Some are subtle meditations on loss or escape or hope; others, strident refusals of the normative.<\/p>\n

Given the strength of the works to be presented, the curators face the challenge of saying too much or offering too confused an experience of the works and their disparate imperatives. They thus bring to bear on the conceptualising of this exhibition, their combined experience\u2014from work in the public sector, the management of museums and biennales, curatorship, architecture, gallery and museum design\u2014of locating and communicating a strong but multilayered curatorial idea that encourages critical debate and brings fresh insights to our own particular contemporary moment.<\/p>\n

Artists<\/strong>
\nWillem Boshoff
\nHaroon Gunn-Salie
\nAngus Gibson
\nMark Lewis
\nGerald Machona
\nMohau Modisakeng
\nNandipha Mntambo
\nBrett Murray
\nSerge Alain Nitegeka
\nJo Ractliffe
\nRobin Rhode
\nWarrick Sony
\nDiane Victor
\nJeremy Wafer<\/p>\n

Curators<\/strong>
\nJeremy Rose formed Mashabane Rose Associates cc (MRA) with Phil Mashabane in 1996. Rose has been principal architect on several museum, heritage, and public art projects, including the Mandela Capture Site Museum, the Mandela Cell sculpture, Freedom Park Museum, Nelson Mandela \u2013 \u2018Prisoner to President\u2019, Paris, Goodman Gallery Cape, the Mandela House Visitors\u2019 Centre, the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the Apartheid Museum, Liliesleaf Liberation Centre, Rivonia, the Origins Centre Wits University, the Mandela Capture Site public sculpture (with artist Marco Cianfanelli), Moving into Dance, Newtown, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, and the University of Johannesburg Arts Centre. MRA was the 26th Sophia Grey Memorial Laureate, was shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival (Barcelona) culture category for Freedom Park Museum, and won commendation from the World Architecture Festival (Barcelona) for the Freedom Park Memorial. MRA won the Institute of South African Architects Award of Merit for Liliesleaf Liberation Centre, the Pretoria Institute of Architects Award of Merit for Freedom Park, the Cube Award for Public Space for the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the Institute of South African Architects Award of Excellence for the Apartheid Museum and the Grand Prix Loerie Award for the Apartheid Museum.<\/p>\n

Christopher Till began his career as Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe before serving as Director of the Johannesburg Art Gallery from 1983 to 1991. During his tenure he was responsible for several\u00a0 groundbreaking exhibitions, including The Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of South African Art<\/i>, secured the Brenthurst Collection of African Art, and commissioned several major sculptures for the collection. As Director of Culture for the City of Johannesburg, he established the city\u2019s first cultural office and helped with the formation of arts and culture policy.\u00a0He was responsible for establishing the Johannesburg Biennale in 1995 and the Johannesburg Arts Alive International Festival in 1992, and for the re-building of the Civic Theatre (now Joburg Theatre).\u00a0He was a also seminal roleplayer in the redevelopment of the Newtown Cultural Precinct.\u00a0He is a founding board member of the International Council of Museums Fine Art Committee, Chairman of the Cape Town Triennial Organising Committee, and an executive committee member of the National Arts Festival, in which capacity he was responsible for the fine art component of the festival and the Standard Bank Young Artist Award. He has served on selection panels for the Sasol New Signatures Award and the Valparaiso, S\u00e3o Paulo, Abidjan, Ivory Coast and Venice biennales. He is Director of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and the Gold of Africa Museum in Cape Town, in both of which he has organised exhibitions on Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Oliver Tambo and the Women\u2019s March. Till is also the principal driver in the development of the Mandela Capture Site<\/i> in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal and is currently directing the planning and development of the new Javett Art Gallery and Museum at the University of Pretoria.<\/p>\n

Implementing Agents<\/strong>
\nThe Apartheid Museum
\nMashabane Rose Associates cc<\/p>\n

Dates of the Biennale<\/strong>
\nVernissage: 8 May 2015
\nOpen to the public: 9 May to 22 November 2015<\/p>\n

Venue<\/strong>
\nSale d\u2019Armi, Arsenale<\/p>\n

All press communication (requests for images and interviews) can be addressed to Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, info@thesouthafricanpavilion.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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