Hermanus FynArts 2019 Celebrates Art and Culture

HERMANUS FYNARTS 2019

Celebrate South African arts and artists in Hermanus, 7 – 17 June 2019.

Hermanus FynArts, a fusion of arts festival and winter school, presents more than 150 events, including the work of nearly 200 artists, as well as talks, workshops and tours.

Exhibitions Phillemon Hlungwani is the 2019 Festival Artist. His exhibition of etchings will be opened by Trent Read on Saturday 8 June at 14:00 at the FynArts Gallery.

Curator Gordon Froud has focussed on the notion of abstraction for Sculpture on the Cliffs. Abstrakt 2019 is therefore about form, shape, colour, texture, pattern and suggestion rather than the realistic portrayal of the subject matter. Smaller sculptures by current and past participants in this exhibition will be displayed in the Auditorium.

Once again, the work of finalists in the Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Art Award will be exhibited on heads of barrels containing award-winning Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc in the Bouchard Finlayson Wine Cellar.

Two other established FynArts exhibitions - ceramics and fibre art - will each feature more than thirty artists in a diversity of styles, colours and textures, at the Windsor Hotel and Old Synagogue respectively.

Participating galleries will present a wide range of new and exciting exhibitions. Meet the resident artist at five participating galleries: Terry Kobus at Originals Gallery and goldsmith Geta Finlayson at the Geta Finlayson Studio.

Diane Heesom, Greene

17

Try Nukuna and Irma van Rooyen

Lizette Chirrime

Crouching Angel

Aloe Racket

Above: Hannalie Taute Right: Ann Marais

18 WWW.ARTTIMES.CO.ZA

Both artists will present solo exhibitions. Makiwa Mutomba (Makiwa Gallery) will exhibit with a group of colleagues, while Lize van der Walt will present her work at her gallery together with Anton Burger. At Studio G festival goers will find local sculptor, Gerhard van Niekerk, who will present a group exhibition of sculpture and painting.

Walkerbay Gallery will feature paintings by Mandy Herdien while at Kunskantoor 2 non-traditional portraiture by Bastiaan van Stenis and Karlien de Villiers will be showcased. Kunskantoor 1 will exhibit four large embroideries by artists of the Keiskamma Art Project.

Forty x 40 will offer an exhibition of paintings and ceramics, while Pure South will offer a group exhibition of ceramics.

Two pop-up galleries are dedicated to artwork by members of two Hermanus societies: paintings by the Hermanus Art Circle (Whale Museum) and work by the Hermanus Photographic Society (Herman Swart Hall, Dutch Reformed Church).

A first for FynArts! An exhibition of drawing, painting, mixed media, frottage, printing and ceramics by children and young teenagers from Zwelihle (Enlighten Education Trust.)

A little further afield the Volmoed artists will exhibit their paintings at the Volmoed Retreat - R320 in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley.

Wine farms along the R320 will also showcase artworks: Ataraxia (Tay Dall, abstract painting); Bouchard Finlayson (Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Art Award finalists, tondi); Creation (Nanette Ranger, ceramics and sculpture); La Vierge (Carole Carr, suspended art installations); Newton Johnson (Gill Allderman, painting); Whalehaven (Stanislaw Tzrebinski’ painting). And Benguela Cove, on the R43 to Hermanus, will exhibit paintings by Floris van Zyl.

“150 events, including the work of nearly 200 artists, as well as talks, workshops and tours.”

20 WWW.ARTTIMES.CO.ZA

Strauss & Co Series of Talks and Presentations

On the opening Saturday, ten short films, made by William Kentridge between 1989 and 2011, will be screened in three sessions. Each session of Drawings for Projection (also known as The Soho Chronicles) will be introduced by Michael Godby.

Other topics include the History and Meaning of Icons by John de Gruchy, and Reflections on Design by Harry Poortman. Executive director of the Norval Foundation, Elana Brundyn, will discuss the growing importance of cultural activity in the lives of people, communities and places.

Two presentations related to photography are Free Roaming Horses of the Overberg (Leanne Dryburgh) and Historic Trees of the Cape (Brita Lombard and Ruth Parker).

History is also the theme of Christopher Hope’s interview with Marilyn Martin about her new book, Between Dreams and Realities – a History of the South African National Gallery. In another interview Christelle Webb-Joubert will talk to Samantha Davis about The Power of Art Therapy.

Above: Diane Heesom Green Right:Tay Dall at Ataraxia (Detail)

22

Phillemon Hlungwani is the 2019 Festival Artist. (Detail)

Workshops FynArts offers a wide range of workshops, many related to the visual arts.

Longer workshops include a 3-day workshop, Composition in Art with Andries Gouws, 2-day workshops, Portraying Plants – an introduction to Botanical Art with Vicki Thomas and Rhythm and Movement in Calligraphy with Andrew van der Merwe.

One-day workshops include: Headwork: a sculpture (Dianne Heesom-Green); Origami: a lesson in paper (Niki Daly); Watercolour Basics (Charme Southey) and Introduction to Decoupage (Carol Tait). The programme also includes many half-day workshops.

Walkabouts and Tours Each day a student intern from Stellenbosch University will conduct a walkabout of the FynArts exhibitions at 11:00. There will also be a daily tour to the exhibitions in the RDP village in Zwelihle, and an Art and Vine Explorer to participating wine farms. There are also tours to meet four artists in their homes, or to visit two private collections.

View the full festival programme of exhibitions, music, theatre, dance, talks, workshops, demonstrations, tastings and children’s events at hermanusfynarts.co.za.

24 WWW.ARTTIMES.CO.ZA