As Cape Town turns to summer, the art world is warming to a new way of exhibiting the talent popping up all around the city. Opting for events that move on almost as soon as they appear, there is a shift away from overlong, classical exhibition structures.
Friends of Friends and Eclectica Contemporary are coming together to present a pop-up exhibition showcasing a unique variety of art and design in a shared space; Neue Times seeks to disassemble the white cube with a body of work that is sui generis. Manny and the Friends of Friends Soundsystem are set to create a backdrop of sounds ranging from house grooves, funk drive and gentle dub, setting the tone for a unique exhibition experience, right in the heart of Cape Town.
Alessandro Iovino
For a long time, I have run away from places, from my family. Where I live, colors are dull; grey in winter and way too bright in summer. But the truth is that all of us run away all the time, in order to be able to come back and see things with different eyes, to come back and see them for real.
For me, it is really important to learn how to look at things with new eyes. Not only what appears to us for the first time, but most of all what we are used to seeing every day of our life: people, spaces, trees, expressions. I believe my biggest ambition is to not become accustomed to what I have around me all the time.
Jordan Schiffer
Jordan Schiffer is a Graphic Designer & Illustrator from Cape Town. Her work displays a love for experimentation and imperfection.
Her designs have a modern twist, with the guidance of nostalgia. Schiffer is driven by creativity and exploration, using bold colors with pattern work to create a distinct look and feel.
Bradley Vermaak
Vermaak is a multidisciplinary creative, who works mainly in the medium of photography. He thrives on the feeling of making the ordinary extraordinary, seeing the beauty in everyday life.
Alexander Kibble
Based between Cape Town and Berlin, photography has been a part of Alexander Kibble’s life ever since a camera fell into his hands at the age of 10. Now, he seeks to capture nature, its elements, and people of the world within them.
Luke Doman
Luke Doman is a Cape Town based artist who found his way to photography through skateboarding and a passion for clothing.
He’d rather make and show his work, instead of talking about it.
LegakwanaLeo Makgekgenene
LegakwanaLeo Makgekgenene was born in Gaborone, Botswana, and holds a Master of Fine Art (New Media) from the University of Cape Town. Their work is a determined effort to bypass cultural censorship and to counteract the restrictions of toxic traditionalism, producing an elusive critique of state machinery and sociological constructions. Makgekgenene’s work engages with the evolution of Botswana’s women’s movements while exploring – specifically for black women – alternative points of access to critical and radical pedagogies.
Williams Chechet
Williams Chechet is a visual artist born in Kano, and raised in Kaduna in Northern Nigeria. Chechet is interested in popular images that circulate in our culture, focusing on cultural iconography of the African society through a Pop Art lens. Isolating photographs on a coloured, flattened plane, the images are taken out of context and overlapped with colorful accessories. His work pays homage to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, with references to artists such as Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat. Chechet obtained a BA/BSc in Industrial Design from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.