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Wind Blowingon theCape Flats
January –March 2013
Exhibitions& Events
Peter Clarke
Exhibition Peter Clarke: Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats
16 January – 9 March 2013
Above and opposite: The Wake, 1970, Colour-reduction linocut, 220 × 170 mm, Courtesy of private collection;Listening to Distant Thunder, 1970Oil and sand on board, 610 × 764 mm,Courtesy of Johannesburg Art Gallery
Front and back cover: Coming and Going, 1960, Oil, 511 × 409mm; Self Portrait, 1953, gouache, 700 × 350mm;All © the artist, courtesy of private collection
Peter Clarke is recognised as a ’the quiet chronicler of South Africa’. Over 60 years his enduring interest has been to observe and comment on his country and its people. His prolific creativity — as a painter, printmaker, writer and poet — is inspired by South Africa’s recent social and political history. From apartheid through to the ‘new’ South Africa, his work is a memoir of his everyday lived experience told through paintings, prints, woodcuts, collages, sketchbooks and artist books.
Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats is a major retrospective and the first substantial exhibition of Peter Clarke’s work in the UK.Over 80 works chart his development as a largely self-taught artist who is part of a lost generation, a voice that has been largely unheard in Europe.
Presented by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) in partnership with the South African National Gallery (Iziko Museums of South Africa)
Peter Clarke Exhibition opens Hans Ulrich Obrist with Peter ClarkeCo-Director of the Serpentine Gallery, Hans Ulrich Obrist continues his on-going Conversation Project (1996— ) with artist and writer Peter Clarke.
‘You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town’Internationally acclaimed writer Zoe Wicomb reads from her work — short stories and novels, set in both apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa — and reflects on key issues in relation to Peter Clarke’s work. Wednesday lunchtime tour Prints as Weapons: Printmaking CourseInspired by the history of printmaking from the Mexican Revolution to the recent Occupy Wall Street movement, this 5 session printmaking course explores how printmaking techniques can give a voice to political thought and actions. Course dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 February 2013, £50 incl. materials.
Curator’s TourTessa Jackson, Iniva’s Chief Executive and co-curator of Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats leads a tour of Peter Clarke’s retrospective and expands on his life and work.
Stuart Hall Library Research NetworkPostgraduate students present and discuss an aspect of their research. Follow @StuartHallLib on Twitter for details of each discussion.
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Talks and Events Wednesday lunchtime tour Ingredients for Debate?Gillian Slovo, well known novelist, playwright and memoirist in conversation with Tamar Garb, University College London, about how she has drawn upon personal history and experience to debate the politics of South Africa, including its Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Visual Traditions, past and presentProviding a context for Peter Clarke’s work, a panel including independent curator Christine Eyene, share their knowledge of recent visual arts developments in South Africa.
Stuart Hall Library Research NetworkPostgraduate students present and discuss an aspect of their research. Follow @StuartHallLib on Twitter for details of each discussion.
Wednesday lunchtime tour Art & Activism in Contemporary South AfricaThis lecture by Annie E. Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture at Birkbeck College, explores women’s art practice in South Africa as alternative political space. Peter Clarke Exhibition closes Keywords Exhibition opens Stuart Hall Library Research Network
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Group tours and discussionsIniva offers facilitated tours and discussions around our exhibitions for groups including Education, Community and Professional. Email [email protected] for bookings and further information.
Booking your ticketsFor more events information, to buy tickets and reserve your place at events visit www.rivingtonplace.org or call 020 7749 1240. Contact [email protected] to book a place for the Stuart Hall Library events.
Things to do New in Stuart Hall Library‘The special library for international visual arts in London’ Roshini Kempadoo, artist
Browse the new artists’ books exhibition inspired by Peter Clarke’s work or view the catalogue at www.iniva.org/library before your visit. Email [email protected] to book an appointment. Check our opening times online.
Shutterbug Café & BarA creperie and bar in the heart of Shoreditch with sweet and savoury crepes to eat-in or takeaway. Fully licensed until midnight with heated outdoor area, it’s great for an after work drink or pre-party bite. Also available for private hire, suits 60 –120 people. Follow us at @ShutterbugLDN or www.shutterbug-london.com for menu updates, events and promotions.
Who we are Rivington Place, a visual arts space designed by David Adjaye OBE, is home to both Iniva and Autograph ABP. Iniva, (the Institute of International Visual Arts) works at the intersection of society and politics through the visual arts. It initiates exhibitions, digital initiatives, education projects and publications, to reflect the diversity of contemporary society.
www.iniva.org @iniva_arts Autograph ABP was established in 1988 and is a charity that works internationally in photography, with a particular emphasis on issues of cultural identity and human rights. We champion historically marginalised photographic practices through our programme of exhibitions, education, publishing and the creation of an archive of culturally diverse photography.
www.autograph-abp.co.uk @autographABP
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Research, reflect & connect
New in the Autograph ABP Archive The new Autograph ABP Archive and Imagebank now accessible — browse thousands of photographs digital and analogue, including a newly preserved, largely unseen portfolio of 100 portraits by the late Raphael Albert, promoter of Black beauty pageants in West London, 1963 – 1980s.Online at www.autographabp.co.uk/image-bank. Visits by appointment only, please contact [email protected] to book.
Sign up and find out more We’ve got a brand new newsletter called the Rivington Place Fortnightly. Sign up for invites, events, news and offers at www.eepurl.com/cTtIk and tell us what you think.Khadija Saye @Saye_Photo Insightful artist tour this evening @Iniva_arts by Kimathi Donkor! Beautiful images with such powerful histories! #inspired — 1 November
Raphael Albert, Miss Black & Beautiful, London, c.1975. Courtesy Autograph ABP.
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