Exhibitions at Spier: More than Words
Exhibitions at Spier: More than Words

Exhibitions At Spier: More Than Words

MAY 21, 2013

This winter Spier is pleased to present a series of three art exhibitions, curated on the occasion of the Dancing In Other Words International Poetry Festival.‘Vocabulary’ or ‘visual language’ are terms often used to describe the characteristics of an artist’s practice. Analogies with words are apt within the context of art, since the use of text has been a feature of artists’ practices since the early twentieth century.

In ‘More than Words’ Spier presents a selection of artworks that explore this cross-pollination between the disciplines within a uniquely South African Context. The following artists use text as statement, as narrative, as instruction, in poetic and literary forms, or as the object of the artwork itself:

Arlene Amaler-Raviv | Olaf Bishoff | Willem Boshoff | Tom Cullberg | William Kentridge | Colin Richards