"renew the linoleum"
1999-12-11 until 2000-01-22
Ibis Art Centre
Nieu-Bethesda, , ZA South Africa

Millennium: An arbitrary chunk of time. An artificial construct. We stand poised, at the threshold, as though we're entering another room. Looking forward and backward. Taking stock. And then, tentatively, we inch our way across this new linoleum into (more of the same in the guise of) a new era, a new style, and a keener sensibility.

At this time, it seems as though everyone is planning to be somewhere else. Quieter country places are a favourite, 'safer' destination; and the village of Nieu-Bethesda faces inundation. So, how is the insular art gallery to respond? Either to ignore the occasion and leave it to the weighty or - to concede and to lay out...

works for the new linoleum:

christine DIXIE

jacobus KLOPPERS

clementina VAN DER WALT

mark WILBY

As it turns out, four artists who have attachment to the town of Nieu-Bethesda, currently find themselves playing with time. Looking forward and backward. Each of these has been persuaded to consolidate their work into an installation, for exhibition, at the end of the year at the Ibis Art Centre.

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