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Date: 10 April 2008
Time: 13:00
EmmaTaggart, Exhibition Curator, will conduct a tour of the exhibition About-face and give insight into how this fascinating exhibition was co-ordinated.
About-face explores the theme of portraiture from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum’s permanent collection and focuses on the different roles that portraits play throughout history. Historical works, such as Sir Rufane Donkin, are hung alongside some very contemporary adaptations of the theme which challenge and play with established norms.
Dorothy Kay and George Pemba are just two of Nelson Mandela Bay’s celebrated portrait artists represented on the exhibition. Their self portraits can be viewed with other famous South African faces such as Matthew Goniwe, the 1995 Springbok rugby team, Mahatma Ghandi and tributes to Albertina Sisulu and Helen Joseph. The exhibition includes ceramic masks, caricatures and abstract impressions.
"This is a wonderfully diverse and fun exhibition which brings together different historical perspectives with new work to create interesting ways to approach the theme of portraiture"says Emma. "There is something for everybody to enjoy and discover what it means to be immortalised through an artist’s eyes."
Members of the public are invited to take a lunch break with a difference and join the tour. Entrance is free and all are welcome to attend.
The exhibition will be on show until 8 June 2008.
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