Most often, art does nothing for me. I'll search for who it might be aimed at and who might purchase it, but ultimately art is a gut reaction, a stirring of an emotion that says: Ah! Now this, this I like! In turn, what I like might not be liked at all by others. Or one might admire the craftmanship but not the subject matter. Art is a fickle, intangible response by the self to what it experiences when looking at/touching a 2D image or 3D object.
This week I went to two exhibits, and the first one was rather disappointing. It was titled
Metro Musings and held at the University of Pretoria's Rautenbach Hall on Monday evening. I randomly saw an invite on FB and decided to attend. It was rather disappointing because most of the works were by fine arts lecturers, and it didn't seem all that cool. Maybe my eye just needs better training.
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| The sun going down on my way to the exhibit. |
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| Diane Victor - Vagrants from the circle (Panel 1), 2013 |
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| Diane Victor - Vagrants from the circle (Panel 2), 2013 |
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| Diane Victor - Vagrants from the circle (Panel 3), 2013 |
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| Elfriede Dreyer - Ship of Fools I, 2012 |
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| Frikkie Eksteen - Detail from Blindfold - South, 2013 |
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| Frikkie Eksteen - Blindfold - East, 2013 |
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| Pieter Swanepoel - Whitewash, 2013 |
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| Magdel van Rooyen - Concrete Conversations, 2010 |
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| Magdel van Rooyen - Detail from Concrete Conversations, 2010 |
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| Leana van der Merwe - Untitled II, 2013 |
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