Visual arts is an important part of any respectable art festival and Clover Aardklop is no exception to the rule. A group of extremely talented photographers will add visual entertainment to this year’s Clover Aardklop Art Festival’s line up.
The photographer, Daniel Naudé, is the 2012 festival artist. Daniel has a wonderful talent to encapsulate a moment in time with his camera. In this exhibition, Animal Farm, a series of Daniel’s photographs that was taken of the Africanis dog is displayed. Each captured moment is a glimpse of a “meeting point” between him and the animal in a natural realm.
Photography forms an important part of the art at this year’s festival. Long Distance is an exhibition of Obie Oberholzer’s photographs. This exhibition shows exactly how Oberholzer, as a lone planet wanderer, embraces the world when he takes his shots. A multi-dimensional exhibition is INK-Complete: Capturing Music II. Photographers Sean Brand and Christelle Duvenage took their cameras along to live band performances and with their photos they explore the relationship between musicians and their tattoos. Part of this exhibition is a video documentary where Bouwer Bosch explains the emotionaljourney one undertakes in the process of having a tattoo done.
One of the highlights this year is, the ever popular ATKV-Skilder met woorde III, curated by the ATKV. Seven visual artists and seven poets were commissioned to create an artwork and a poem with the theme “1-2-3 block myself!” Participants include the artists Strijdom van der Merwe, Pauline Gutter, Nathan Trantraal, Sam Nhlengethwa, Elizabeth Gunter, Karin Miller and Diek Grobler and the poets Diana Ferrus, Tom Gouws, Ronelda Kamfer, Johan Myburg, Melt Myburgh, Martjie Bosman and DanieMarais. The Absa L’Atelier 2012 Top 100 Exhibition includes exciting artwork of promising, upcoming artists. Artists with solo exhibitions at this year’s festival are: Hanneke Benade, Barbara Wildenboer, Paul Cooper, Clare Menck,Craig Müller en Talita Swarts.
The opening of the Visual Arts Prgram will take place on Monday the 1st Oct at the well known Arts Safari. The evening guests will travel through 12 exhibitions on the North-West University Campus. For the duration of the arts festival Theo Kleynhans, a well known artist from Stellenbosch, will conduct daily art tours. Tickets for the Arts Safari as well as the daily art tours are only available at Computicket. Tickets are limited; make sure that you buy yours today.
Clover Aardklop Arts Festival is held from 2 to 7 October in Potchefstroom. Tickets are available at Computicket. For more information visit the website at cloveraardklop.co.za
