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	<title>Design News &#187; Museum Cult of Ugliness</title>
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		<title>The Cult of Ugliness: a new exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Georgina Gratrix in conversation with Irma Stern’s artworks at the iconic painter’s former home.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgina Gratix]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UCT Irma Stern Museum is delighted to host the celebrated painter Georgina Gratrix as its second artist in residence for 2022. As part of the museum’s 50th anniversary year, Gratrix has worked in the museum residency studio from July to September 2022. Artworks produced during this time will be exhibited at the museum from 28 September 2022 onwards. Born a century after the renowned South African artist Irma Stern (1894 – 1966), contemporary artist Georgina Gratrix (1982) is, like Stern, a dedicated colourist testing the limits of oil painting. Many aspects of Stern’s work are reflected in Gratrix’s pieces; composition, colouration and subject matter. In this way, Gratrix makes both direct and indirect references to Stern. Cut and paste woman 2010Oil on Canvas80 x 60 cmUnique Shortly after her first exhibition in South Africa a century ago, Stern was lambasted by the local media. In a review titled “Art of Miss Irma Stern &#8211; Ugliness as a Cult,” one critic referred to her work as a “Freak Picture Exhibition.” 100 years later, Gratrix takes this sentiment as her point of departure to examine the ways in which Modernism, and in particular German Expressionism, have made an impact on her [...]]]></description>
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