Power of Site - Winter Sculpture Fair 2019

POWER OF SITE

An exhibition of sculptures, installations & performances

Winter exhibition May – July 2019 / NIROX Sculpture Park Curated in collaboration with Lorena Guillén-Vaschetti (Argentina) & Adam Jeppesen (Denmark)

31Energy has engulfed humanity since it mastered control over fire in the Cradle of Humankind. Some 4mil years past, our human ancestors who had settled in the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountains, found mastery over fire, beginning a fascination with energy that has fuelled human evolution – providing at once the wonders, the horrors and the controversies we face today in its wake.

Science grapples with our understanding of energy and our strategies for accessing and using it without the continuing depletion and contamination of the natural world. These efforts are entwined and often corrupted by economic, national and other vested interests. Mystics look beyond the physics for an alternative understanding of energy. Artists inspire new avenues of thought and fresh ways of seeing…

Against this backdrop curators, Lorena Guillén-Vaschetti and Adam Jeppesen, invite artists to awaken our perspectives…in this place known as the Cradle of Humankind, recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site for its wealth of ancient geological and paleo-anthropological resources and its rich potential for research and education. NIROX Sculpture Park lies at its heart…

Left: Katharien de Villiers, Umhlanga Above: Raimi Gbadamosi, The Republic Faces The Sun Following Page: Angus Taylor, Morphic Resonance

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35Above: Sun Boat - Moataz Nasr (Under Construction) Left: William Kentridge sculpture. Following Page: Raimi Gbadamosi ‘The Republic Faces The Sun’

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List of participating artists: Willem Boshoff (SA) Olu Oguibe (USA) Moataz Nasr (Egypt) Marina Abramović (USA) Danae Stratou (Greece) Richard Forbes (SA) Marco Meihling & Michael Mieskes (Germany) Lorena Guillén-Vaschetti (Argentina) James Webb (SA) Richard Long (UK) (Existing works) Rhett Martin (SA) Jake Singer (SA) Riyas Komu (India) 58 Collective: Elena Rocci (Italy) & Hester Reeve (UK)

The exhibition is kicked off on May 4th with the event Long to Long - a night walk. This event brings the audience to the backcountry neighbouring the NIROX Sculpture Park, to visit a truly unique work of art, by the British artist Richard Long. Audience will experience the transition from dusk to darkness and will be provided with solar powered lanterns by the Danish/Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, called Little Sun. The following day, May 5th will see official opening of the exhibition.

Above: Amphitheatre Right: Sean Slemon, Facing The Sun

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