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The Iziko South African Museum is currently finalising
a repair and renovation project, funded by the Department of Public
Works. Certain public areas such as the foyer, restaurant and retail
area will be renovated and upgraded. We apologise for any
inconvenience caused.
Our objective is to transform this area into a secure,
welcoming space for visitors that will provide high quality public
facilities with improved orientation and information about the Iziko
South African Museum, as well as the collections and temporary
exhibitions of Iziko’s other eleven museums.
The design solution and implementation of this revamp
will embody in some ways the spirit and underlying ethos of Iziko, of
providing a warm welcome that will be sure to enhance visitor
experience.
UNCONQUERABLE SPIRIT: GEORGE STOW AND THE ROCK ART OF THE SAN
8 NOVEMBER 2008 - 31 MAY 2009
George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts – poet, historian,
ethnographer, artist, cartographer and prolific writer. A geologist by
profession, he became acquainted, through his work in the field, with
the extraordinary wealth of rock paintings in the caves and shelters
of the South African interior. Enchanted and absorbed by them, Stow
set out to create a record of this creative work of the people who had
tracked and marked the South African landscape decades and centuries
before him. Stow’s paintings are interpretations of the art of the
San, informed by his own understanding of a particularly turbulent
time in South African history and his sense of the tragic demise of
the San way of life. This exhibition celebrates his pioneering
achievement and reminds us, too, of the richness of the imaginative
universe of the San.
A collection of his interpretations of rock art, a selection of his
geological maps, documents and field notebooks, some of
his poetic works, quotations from his writings on the San and their
history as he recorded and interpreted it, as well as some contextual
material from the Bleek and Lloyd archive are displayed. The
exhibition brings together works from the Iziko South African Museum,
the National Library of South Africa and the of Cape Town (UCT). It is
curated by Pippa Skotnes and her team at the Centre for Curating the
Archive, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. A new publication on Stow
will be launched at the exhibition.
Enquiries: Petro Keene, Tel. 021 481 3883, or email
pkeene@iziko.org.za.
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