Standard Bank Gallery
29 January – 31 December 2013
This exhibition explores the role that fire – heat, light and smoke – has played in African cultural expression. Drawn from the Standard Bank African Art Collection housed at the Univeristy of the Witwatersrand the display includes a range of artefacts associated with metal work, such as bellows, ingots, gold weights and scales and iron implements, elegant clay pots, beautifully decorated wooden and clay pipes, other material associated with traditional ritual practices as well as works by contemporary artists.
Standard Bank Gallery
Corner Simmonds and Frederick Street, Johannesburg
Tel: 011 631 4467
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri, 08:00-16:30; Saturday, 09:00-13:00
The gallery is closed on Sundays and public holidays.
Admission free
www.standardbankarts.com
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Inferno, 2011. Kilimanjaro/ColdFire Project. 9 prints of 60 x 40cm each. Lightjet prints on archival paper. Private collection. Photographer: Georgie Pappageorge
