Art Exhibition Opens
Wednesday 1 December 2010 Eleven artfully decorated surfboards went on display today in aid of key ocean charities, and they are stunning! Hope to see you at the art party and auction a week from today, ie, Wednesday 8 December.
At the end of the Wavescape Surf Art Exhibition at Depasco Café in Cape Town, the surfboards will be auctioned to the highest bidder by comedian Mark Sampson on Wednesday 8 December.
Proceeds go to the National Sea Rescue Institute, Shark Spotters and the Ticket To Ride Foundation, with a donation also going to Surfing Heritage South Africa.
The artists comprise mix of beat poets, illustrators, street artists, graffiti legends, painters, cartoonists, graphic designers and township kids.
Presented by the Save Our Seas Foundation, the exhibition forms part of the Wavescape Surf Film Festival that runs from 9-20 December. Supporting sponsors are Pick ‘n Pay, Quiksilver, 2oceansvibe Radio, Men’s Health, the Cape Times and Wavescape. Please call 079 0260 669 for more information about the evening. We hope to see you there. Click the invite and RSVP if you can.
The boards
Look out for the asymmetrical, manga characters of Black Koki and 35ten73, from the Love and Hate crew. Enjoy and decipher the out-there tapestry of underground grafster Ice7. Ewok, renowned beat poet and graffiti legend works with underground talent Bones on their board. Cape Argus cartoonist and Kommetjie surfer Chip Snaddon brings extra surfing cred to the party.
ND Mazin, cartoon book author, places a found object (skull of a buck) into his board for a celestially-charged commentary on the darker side of humanity in the Mystic Duiker. Also with the old guard, come the Durban-based design duo of Scott Robertson and Kim Longhurst who share a board for a two-sided view of their cryptic wit. Osnat de Villiers is a renowned Scarborough-based painter who works with her partner Pierre de Villiers to add custom aesthetics to his Dream surfboard shapes.
Matthew Pinker moves beyond the legacy left by his father Stanley Pinker, whose work Wheel of Life (1974) recently fetched R2.5 million as part of a new record set in South African art sales in October (a work by Irma Stern fetched R13.4 million). Patrick Burnett creates a hand-crafted wooden surfboard, decorated with a nude by fine artist Kelly John Gough.
Wavescape teams up with the Ticket to Ride foundation and Muizenberg artist Claire Homewood to decorate one of the 11 surfboards with development surfer kids from Masiphumelele township. Proceeds of this board go to the foundation for its projects with disadvantaged children.
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