Doreen Southwood - Casa Labia

List of works, artist thoughts and biographies
MH105
Hipper, Mark, 1960 - 2010
... and jump
2007
oil on canvas
135 X 150 cm
MH114
Hipper, Mark, 1960 - 2010
stalking deer
2008
Oil on canvas
74 X 180 cm
192 Main Road, Muizenberg,
Cape Town, South Africa
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MH108
Hipper, Mark, 1960 - 2010
leg positions
2007
oil on canvas
75 X 270 cm
DOS004
Southwood, Doreen
The Dancer
2010
Bronze - painted
78 cm

Mark Hipper’s thoughts on works
All the images from which these paintings were made are drawn from either a Department
of Education manual for Physical Education instructors or else from similar sources
including an anatomy book. They are all images which were made in order to illustrate a
particular directive or lesson. Beyond that these images do not even have an author, the
photographer’s bread and butter assignment merely a function performed for the
Education Department that takes the credit for these. The manual is dated from the 1950’s,
and is as outdated as the hairstyles and sportswear evident in the photographs. And yet,
these images are still reproduced in the sense of elementary lessons being passed on from
one generation to the next; after-images after images. What interested me was the
banality of these images, and the sense perhaps, of a loss and the promise of a future
which accrues to these ageing and discarded images.
After-images
I am presently
applying glazes
to paintings,
reducing tone
to a shade,
a discolour
gradually etiolating
now receding images
after images
once
a bread and butter assignment:
copy, leg positions,
fig. 23,
handstand,
fig. 29
the grain of these images
a film of papery dust
and greying paint
these paintings
slowly greying,
receiving glazes,
ash to ashen
and grey to grey
reducing them,
like
mourning them.
- Mark Hipper, 19 April 2007

Doreen Southwood thoughts on work
The Dancer
The Dancer consists of four bronze figurines. The title The Dancer forms part of the work in that it
binds the presence of four figures to a single entity. The use of bronze as casting material links itself
to the title of the work, reminiscent of Degas' Dancer. Elongated figures as well as subtle use of flat
colour planes gives this work an 'easy to view' stylized appeal. The content of the work functions
within the use of metal frozen in movement dangling mid air. Although the weight of the cast figures
is over 100kg, they appear light and weightless due to the cycle of movement on display.
The content of clouded emotion made into object gives value to a period of functioning outside the
self I was familiar with. Of importance for me was to display the liquid state I found myself in, a
place where time lost its established value. This no man's land that defies gravity is much like a
body in outer space where the rules of gravity do not apply.
The work is illustrative in what has been isolated, almost resembling the drawing on an information
leaflet. By displaying four stages found within one continues movement I attempt to make bare the
details of what would usually be perceived as a single moment. Although there is a difference
between people's perception of time and the information taken in from one's environment. Within
the public world of daily living, people seem to have reached a consensus on what is an acceptable
time frame within which daily schedules are structured. Only in the world of art making or
performance is there more freedom to slow down time and so also what the viewer would see
valuable enough to notice.
The cycle on display here signifies a moment with a beginning and an end, a figure with no control
over being thrown by the wind, an attempt to control her own movement, acceptance as change.
The addiction to specific emotions gives each person their identity, what you are addicted to you
always repeat. The cycle of change can only take place within the midst of the familiar, almost like a
past and present creating yearnings for a new future that in turn can only exist in the past. Within
this cycle, acceptance becomes change, the mantra within which to spiral. The journey of
rediscovering what came before as attempt to snap from weightlessness to self-control.
As a little girl going to ballet classes as well as being surrounded by woman (in my family) who
loved being called ladies, indented me in ways I cannot seem to escape. This deep-seated denial of
my surroundings makes me a foreigner in constant need to play make-believe. The respectable lady,
pre-occupied with a doll-like elegance defies gravity whilst attempting to escape all matters at hand.
Denial also fuels escape or fantasy within desperate moments of self-preservation. The weight of the
world seems to have no effect on what the mind decides.
'The Dancer' is a performer, acting out what has been rehearsed before. A figure stuck in motion.
Doreen Southwood

Mark Hipper
Born 1960 in Ghana. Passed away 2010, Grahamstown, South Africa.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Retrospective “Berlin Jaren” at Sara Asperger Gallery, Berlin
2010 Doppelgänger/Double, Erdmann Contemporary, Cape Town
2007 after-images, João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
2005 CAST OFFS, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
2004 The Inquisitors, Asperger Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2003 EXITUS, National Arts Festival, GrahamstowN
The Inquisitors, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
2002 interim, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
2001 subject : object, National Art Festival, Grahamstown
and NSA Gallery Durban
1999 BAD, Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
Mark Hipper, Jenö Gindl, Leora Farber, Joao Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town
1998 viscera, National Arts Festival, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
1997 Association for Visual arts, Cape Town
SOME-BODIES, NSA Gallery, Durban
1996 Labia Gallery, Cape Town
Galerie Mönch, Berlin
1995 Ausstellung im Glasgang, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Zeichnungen, Projektgalerie SOMA. Berlin
Galerie Mönch, Berlin
1994 Membran Körper, Gallery Asperger Sarl, Straßbourg (catalogue)
1993 take away, Projektgalerie SOMA, Berlin ( with J. Gindl)
1990 Kinder, Reime, Fittiche, Gallery Loulou Lasard, Berlin
1989 Gelb, Grau, Glieder, Gallery Bichette, Berlin
1984 Market Gallery, Johannesburg (with L. Hojem)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 SUDDEN DEATH, Westwendischer Kunstverein e.V., Gartow, Germany
The Art of Drawing, Rust en Vrede, Belville
2003 Brett Kebble Art Award Exhibition, Cape Town
Console, National Art Festival, Grahamstown
2001 AChange no sorry@, Joao Ferreira Fine Art
Works on Paper, Joao Ferreira Fine Art
2000 Body masks, Joao Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town
1999 Galerie Poll, Berlin
1998 Galerie Mönch, Berlin
Harris Fine Art, Cape Town
1997 Strasbourg Art Fair
1996 Michaelis School of Fine Art, Staff Exhibition
1995 Standpunkte, Rafael Vostell Fine Art, Berlin, (catalogue)
CLOSE UP, Städtische Galerie, Bremen (exhibition curatorship)
SOMA in Bethanien, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin (catalogue, curatorship)
1994 Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Gera
Standpunkte, Rafael Vostell Fine Art, Berlin, (catalogue)
XXX, Explicit Images, Berlin

Sell-Out, Project Gallery SOMA, Berlin
Displacements, South African Works on Paper, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Chicago
1993 Windowshopping, Berlin
NewTown Galleries, Johannesburg
Accrochage, Gallery W. Asperger
1992 Umbau, Friedrichstraße, Berlin
1991 Schlaraffenland, Akademie der Künste zu Berlin (catalogue, curatorship)
Accrochage, Gallery W. Asperger
1990 Four Artists from Berlin, in the Dom Kultury ( Cultural Institute ) Krakow, Poland
Grenzsituationen - Gewalt, Kunstverein Rotenburg (catalogue)
Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung, Munich
1988 Der Fleischberg, Gallery Bichette, Berlin
1987 Stammbaum, Katakomben Kreuzberg, Berlin
1983 Martiensen Prize Exhibition, WITS (1. Prize: Painting)
COLLECTIONS
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, University of Chicago
WITS University Collection
SANLAM
Mary Slack
Endhoven Collection
AWARDS
1981 Austrian Embassy Prize & Certificate of Merit for German Studies
1982 German Embassy Prize & Certificate of Merit for German Studies
1982 Henry Lidchi Prize for Drawing
1983 Martiensen Prize for Painting and Drawing
1983 Certificate of Merit for Art Criticism
1984 Montagu White Bursary
1992-3 Stipend from the Senat for Science, Research and Culture, Berlin
1996 Awarded a resident artist stipend from the Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen
EDUCATION
1998 Lecturer in Painting, Rhodes University, Grahamstown
1996 Lecturer in Painting, Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT
1993-96 Co-curator of the Project Gallery SOMA, Berlin
1985-91 Meisterschuler of the Hdk Hochschule der Kunste
1980-84 BA Fine Art, University of the Witwatersrand
1979 Matriculation Certificate, Deutsche Schule, Johannesburg

Doreen Southwood
(Born 1974,Cape Town, South Africa)
Education: 1998: BA FA – University of Stellenbosch
Awards:
Public Commission:
Exhibitions:
1998: University of Stellenbosch, Awarded Top Student for Fine Art
1999: Awarded Stellenbosch 2000 Bursary
2000: Awarded Harry Crossly Bursary
Awarded SWO Research Bursary
2001: Awarded Harry Crossly Bursary
BASA – funding grant
ABSA –Atelier top ten finalist
2002: ABSA – Atelier top ten finalist
2003: Sasol prize at kknk
Brett Kebble Art Award- overall winner
2004: Residency in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
2005: Vrijplaats Public sculpture commission, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
2001: Homeport, , Five citie exhibitiion, 'Slipway', V & A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa.
2007: Vrijplaata Projest, Public sculpture commission, 'Sindroom', Tilburg, The Netherlands.
2002: Bellville Arts Association, ABSA- Atelier - Group Exhibition
Self, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudshorn.
Just Perfect, Spark Gallery, Johannesburg.
Bell Roberts Gallery, Cape Town – solo exhibition – Nothing, really matters
2003: Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees – solo exhibition - Untitled
Brett Kebble Art Awards Finalists Exhibition, Cape Town International Convention Centre,
Cape Town.
2004: Democracy and Change, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudshorn.
Dakart Biennial, Dakar, Senegal.
Forty/Veertig, Sasol Museum, Stellenbosch
Personal Affects, Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, Museum for
African Art, New York City.
A Decade of Democracy: South African Art 1994-2004 from the permanent collection,
South African National Gallery, Cape Town
2005: In the making: materials and process, Michael Stevenson gallery, Cape Town
Universe of me, two-person exhibition, Michael Stevenson gallery, September, Cape Town
Synergy, Iziko, the national gallery, the old town house, Cape Town

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2006: Alternative Clothes workshop, Havana Biennale, Cuba
Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in South African Art, The Contemporary Museum,
Honolulu.
Woman: Photography and New Media, Johannesburg Art Gallery,
2007: Summer: 2007/2008, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Spier Contemporay, Spier Estate, Stellenbosch.
2008: .ZA: Gioivane arte dal Sudafrica, at Palazzo delle Papesse. Siena, Italy.
: Virgin Mobile Cape Town Fashion week, August, Cape Town.
2009: Sing into my mouth, What if the world gallery, May, Cape Town.
2010: Current Matters, The Gallery, Grande Provence, Franshoek
Twenty: South African Sculpture of the last Two Decades, Nirox Sculpture Park , Cradlle of
Humankind, Gauteng.
1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
Collections: Sasol art collection, Old Mutual, Iziko South African National Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery,
Spier Art Collection, Standard Bank, Hollard, JCI Johannesburg.