ERIC BOLSMANN – A RETROSPECTIVE

Until 4 December 2011

Henry Preiss Hall

Eric Bolsmann is a painter and writer known for his love of Pretoria, the city he has called his home for over thirty years. This love features in his books on wine and food and history and art, and also in many of his paintings. Eric Bolsmann – A retrospective is the artist’s eleventh solo exhibition, and of the more than fifty paintings on view some are shown to the public for the first time. A number of the paintings, such as Pretoria 2005, the Pretoria Railway Station, Arcadia Hotel, The Floral Palette and The Moederkerk of Stellenbosch have been graciously loaned to the Art Museum by private collectors.

The opening of the exhibition coincided with the launch of Bolsmann’s book Who wants to be a starving artist anyway? This, his fourth book dealing specifically with art, is an autobiographical account of his life as an artist. Woven into the narrative is a wealth of information that artists and art lovers will find fascinating.

 

PLAY-OFF

by Gordon Froud and Lance Friedlande

26 October 2011 to 22 January 2012

Alberth Wert Hall

This extensive exhibition of about 150 works featuring sculptures, photographs and etchings by Gordon Froud and paintings by Lance Friedlande. The opening will take place on Wednesday Wednesday, 26 October, 18:00 for 18:30.

The PLAY-OFF exhibition calibrates and celebrates the individuality of the creative process, highlighting the similarities and differences between the activities practised by both artists to produce their work. Similarities include using creativity to resolve self-generated problems, using words to stimulate content, following an evolutionary process, and setting up an ongoing dialogue between the artist and the artwork. Also important to both artists is finding joy in the creative activity, resulting at times in playfulness in the process as well as in the completed artwork.

 

CHILDREN’S TILE ART PROJECT

3 December 2011 to 29 January 2012

East Gallery

The Children’s Tile Art Project is held anually and consists of Saturday workshops presented to vulnerable children. The workshops are held with the cooperation of a formal NGO involved in the intervention of social ills. This year the museum was privileged to work with Future Families, an organisation that does social work in Sunnyside. At each workshop the children are introduced to a different art-making technique. An exhibition of their best artwork is then held in commemoration of World Aids Day.

 

A STORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN ART

This exhibition includes works of early 20th Century painters , Resistance artists of the 1980s and artists of the 21st century

 

COROBRIK COLLECTION

A selection of ceramics representing the development of studio ceramics and the work of traditional rural potters of South Africa over the past thirty years

 

STUDY COLLECTION

Art media and techniques are illustrated in the Information Centre

 

ART LIBRARY

We invite you to make use of our Art Library which houses books on South African Art, African Art,  Western Art as well as Crafts and Ceramics. Our library is accessible by appointment from Tuesday to Friday 10:00 to 03:00.

 

Enquiries, please contact us on

Tell: 012 344 1807/8

Fax: 012 344 1809

email: art.museum@tshwane.gov.za

website:  http://www.pretoriaartmuseum.co.za/

 

 

 

 

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