Attended Beezy Bailey’s opening last night at Everad Reed in Cape Town. The work – Fallen Angels and other dreams is on show together with Bailey’s black alter ego – Joyce Ntobe.

 

I was involved in promoting his driftwood show – landscapes on found materials, many years ago which (probably because we had a serious blowout at the time) I found immature and shoddy. He has incorporated a piece of driftwood for an angel’s face in this current show (see below) which I think is luminous, so luminous that a blue bird at the centre of one of the pieces lights the whole painting. http://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/site/artist.asp?picnumber=21&name=Fallen+Angels+and+Other+Dreams&folder=Images/beezybailey/. This work is worth seeing even if, like me, you’re not in the market for a R50K piece of art.

 

I was chatting to artist Henk Serfontein there and saw another artist Theo Kleynhans and, I guess prompted by being a natural net-worker, introduced them to each other. Of course they knew each other (and of course they would) and it occurred to me that it was arrogant of me even to assume they may need me to introduce them. Henk was good natured about it but his response got me thinking. Life imitating art.

 

 

I also loved Nicholas Hlobo’s Room 505 at the Spier Hotel. He has created an installation with coloured ribbons and tyre rubber that is both beautiful and challenging.

 

Together with Jo O’Connor room 506 (an essay on public/private spaces) and suite 604’s Afro Deco by the Cape Craft & Design Institute, the Hotel is offering resident guests an opportunity to commune with art. Exciting stuff.

 

I missed Norman O’Flynn’s Never Late To Be A Man (open at Bell Roberts until March 3) but liked the beefy super hero invite so much I’ve displayed it at the office.