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		<title>The Stellenbosch Triennale Imaginarium: Growing art lovers and critical thinkers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The town of Stellenbosch gears up to host an extraordinary series of events, next year, when the first Stellenbosch Triennale will play host to some of the world’s most sought after artists responding to the complex present, historical realities and future possibilities. The Stellenbosch Triennale, brainchild of the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust, will take place from 11 February to 30 April in 2020. Venues across the town will exhibit works in response to the theme of the Triennale Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us. In addition to artworks by practitioners of contemporary art from Africa, the Triennale will also provide a unique learning opportunity for all in its vicinity. Known as The Imaginarium, the carefully engineered platform will be a supplementary, online, open source (i.e. free) discovery and learning resource centre for all ages. This exciting experience will be accessed through the Triennale website, and will be designed to stimulate the imagination while supporting 21st Century learning skills. Prior to the launch of the Stellenbosch Triennale online content, workshops which put this theory into practice have already begun. Workshops and lessons are being held at the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography. Here, Grade 5’s from Devon Valley Primary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ava Gallery hosts Western Cape winners and finalists of PPC Imaginarium Awards 2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2019 12:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa’s most supportive art and design competition, the PPC Imaginarium Awards, will exhibit the work of its Western Cape Winners and Finalists at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery in Cape Town from 6-26 June 2019. The exhibition will open from 18h00 on Thursday the 6th of June and will form part of the popular First Thursdays circuit in the inner city.  Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to engage with the diverse range of art and design works from the competition’s various entry categories, namely, Fashion, Sculpture, Industrial Design, Jewellery, Film and Architecture. Entries into the PPC Imaginarium Awards must aim to express innovation through the medium of concrete. Although there were no Film or Architecture Finalists from the Western Cape, on the whole, the region fared well in the competition, with 14 out of 67 national Finalists hailing from the Cape, from which four Winners were selected. Notably, Cheryl Traub Adler received the runner-up award in the Fashion category for a conceptual garment titled My Mother’s Dress; Joani Groenewald was the runner-up in the Jewellery category for a ring called Keree 3; Jon-Peer Bouwer was the runner-up in the Industrial Design category for his Lime Light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An artwork probing religious cults wins emerging Eastern Cape artist Sonwabiso Ngcai the top accolade in the 2019 PPC Imaginarium Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a gala event held at UJ Gallery on 11 April 2019, emerging Eastern Cape artist Sonwabiso Ngcai was announced as overall winner of 2019 PPC Imaginarium Awards, taking home R150 000 in cash for his sculpture entitled Isigu, or The Snare. A BASA Award-winning programme, the PPC Imaginarium Awards is the country’s most supportive art and design competition with over half-a-million Rand in prizes awarded across six categories – Sculpture, Industrial Design, Film, Fashion, Jewellery and Architecture – to standout entries that express innovation using PPC cement. Ngcai secured both the Sculpture Category prize and the Overall Winner ranking for a thought-provoking entry, which provides an analogy for how certain religious cults are ensnaring their congregants. According to the artist’s personal views on the subject matter: “an isigu, in traditional African society, is a contraption used by young boys to hunt birds. It consists of a downward-facing bowl, with one side held open by an upright stick that has a string tied to it, with a few pieces of grain scattered underneath the bowl. Lured by the promise of food, a bird enters the area &#8211; the string is tugged, and the bird is captured. In this piece, the use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University of Johannesburg Art Gallery is the first stop on PPC IMAGINARIUM’s 2019 nationwide tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2019 09:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PPC Imaginarium Awards is an annual art and design competition that showcases the talents of emerging artists and designers through the medium of concrete. Entrants compete within six categories &#8211; Architecture, Fashion, Film, Industrial Design, Jewellery and Sculpture &#8211; in pursuit of their share of an exciting R520 000 cash prize. The winners will be announced on 11 April 2019 at a special ceremony hosted at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery. From 12 April 2019 until 16 May 2019, the PPC Imaginarium Awards exhibition will be open to the public at the same venue. Guests will have the chance to browse the original and innovative concrete creations of all South African finalists and category winners as well as the overall winner for 2019. The PPC Imaginarium will be hosting a creative concrete workshop and educational walkabouts at the gallery. Formal walkabouts are scheduled for Wednesday, 8 May at 13h00, Saturday, 11 May at 10h00 and Wednesday, 15 May at 13h00 at UJ Art Gallery, APK Campus Kingsway and University Road, Auckland Park.]]></description>
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		<title>SA’s leading lights to judge emerging art and design innovators</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art and design competitions are legitimised as much by the entry talent they attract as by the calibre of the judges weighing in on the winners. The annual PPC Imaginarium Awards, now in its 5 th year, boasts both a plethora of young creatives competing for the country’s most supportive art and design prize and a truly stellar judging panel. The panel comprises industry leaders drawn from across the various entry categories, namely, Fashion, Film, Architecture, Industrial Design, Sculpture and Jewellery. Last year, the PPC Imaginarium Awards judges were tasked with evaluating over 300 completed submissions. For 2019 the formidable task of judging the flood of entries falls to an illustrious panel comprising high-profile personalities, who evaluate submissions at a regional and then national level. The six regional judges who, together with competition director Daniel van der Merwe, will select this year’s finalists, are: Pierre Lombard (Johannesburg), Mary Sibande (Johannesburg), Jay Pather (Cape Town), Jessica Staple (Port Elizabeth), Avitha Sooful (Pretoria), Themba Shibase (KZN), Sisanda Henna (Johannesburg) and Adelheid von Maltitz (Bloemfontein). The judges will be looking for entries that express innovation through the medium of concrete. In doing so, they will bring their formidable experience and expertise to bear when choosing the strongest entries. Sibanda, for example, is one of the country’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EMERGING TALENT POPS UP AT THE AVA GALLERY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 07:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in seeing the Western Cape’s newest artistic and design talent? Then head to the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery in Cape Town from 28 – 29 March 2019 where work by entrants into South Africa’s most supportive awards programme for emerging creatives, the PPC Imaginarium Awards, will be on display. Members of the public are encouraged to visit the AVA Gallery to view a selection of art and design projects entered in the fashion, sculpture, jewellery and industrial design categories of the competition. The AVA Gallery, which seeks to advance art and design in a variety of disciplines, provides the ideal platform to showcase these entries. The gallery is open Monday-Friday from 10h00 – 17h00 and Saturdays from 10h00 – 13h00. The pop-up show is the first exhibition that the PPC Imaginarium Awards is hosting in 2019, with further pop-ups in various regions to follow hotly on its heels. Hosted by established galleries in Durban and Port Elizabeth, these pop-up shows will reveal some of the top young talent and creativity in South Africa. Launched by renowned cement company PPC Ltd, the annual PPC Imaginarium Awards challenges emerging artists and designers to demonstrate their talent for innovation by incorporating concrete into their particular disciplines. The PPC Imaginarium Awards, now in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2018 BASA Awards Honours PPC Imaginarium Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PPC Imaginarium Awards champions local art and design and staked its claim with the 21st Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) Awards, partnered by Hollard Group. BASA’s 2018 finalists were announced at a breakfast at Hollard Group’s Villa Arcadia head office campus in Parktown, Johannesburg, on Tuesday, 28 August 2018, and PPC Ltd was named for the Beyond Borders Partnership Award and the Cultural Tourism Award (supported by Nedbank). The annual BASA Awards recognise and reward members of the business sector who contribute to the arts across all genres; these include businesses in the financial, construction, tourism &#38; hospitality, professional services, media &#38; publishing, property, broadcast, information technology and education sectors. “BASA-facilitated partnerships further independent, reflective and critical social commentary,” says BASA CEO Michelle Constant. “This keeps our nation growing and moving forward. It also drives economic growth that, in turn, benefits everybody.” For its efforts in supporting and uplifting local artists, PPC Ltd was named as a finalist for two BASA Awards – the Beyond Borders Partnership Award and the Cultural Tourism Award. In May 2018, PPC Ltd partnered with the National Gallery of Zimbabwe to co-host the first-ever PPC Imaginarium Awards Zimbabwe gala event. For this venture, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The PPC Imaginarium Awards To Exhibit At 100% Design South Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2018 06:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerging talent takes the stage as South Africa’s foremost art and design competition, the PPC Imaginarium Awards, re-joins top trade show 100% Design South Africa. From 8-12 August 2018, visitors to the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand can view finalists of the concrete-themed PPC Imaginarium Awards in a dedicated feature at 100% Design South Africa. Each year, the travelling exhibition of the PPC Imaginarium Awards stops at 100% Design South Africa, allowing finalists to exhibit alongside local and international design heavyweights and emerging design talent. Curated by Platform Creative and taking place alongside Decorex Johannesburg, 100% Design South Africa is the largest curated exhibition platform for sourcing high-end contemporary design in Africa, servicing office, residential and hospitality sectors. Joining the show with their breath-taking, innovative concrete products this year are finalists of the PPC Imaginarium Awards, including works entered across all six categories, namely film, fashion, jewellery, sculpture, architecture and industrial design. “In 2017, The PPC Imaginarium reached further milestones by extending into the art community and maximising the opportunities of the artists who qualified as finalists,” says PPC Imaginarium Director Daniel van der Merwe. “The initiative has enabled and empowered more artists and designers than any comparable project in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lwandiso Njara unravels renewed African identities in a solo exhibition with Lizamore &amp; Associates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 06:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lwandiso Njara envisions the Engineering the New Jerusalem Lizamore &#38; Associates showcases a solo exhibition by Lwandiso Njara; Engineering the New Jerusalem II. This body of work is a reflection of his own understanding of the renewal of identity. The exhibition is sponsored by PPC and Stuttaford van Lines and opens on 31 May 2018 at 18:00. Growing-up in a traditional Xhosa household, Lwandiso Njara’s Catholic schooling by nuns from India and Switzerland exposed him to different ideologies and technologies. In Engineering the New Jerusalem II, Njara depicts his understanding of a changing identity – as influenced by his upbringing and education. This body of takes form in pen, graphite &#38; charcoal drawings and sculptures in PPC cement, resin, animal bone and steel. The artist portrays a cross-pollinated sense of identity which emerges from the physical hybridity of his sculptures and drawings. “I believe that my work resembles or explores the new contemporary robotic or technological African urban identity” says the artist. He often blatantly merges polarities in one body through using the lamb, the goat and the cow fused with mechanical gears and engines, all acting as signifiers for the artist’s own hybrid sense of identity. This exhibition opens on Thursday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AVA Gallery To Host The Cape Town Leg Of The PPC Imaginarium Awards 2018 Travelling Exhibition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2018 09:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa’s most supportive art and design competition, the PPC Imaginarium Awards, will exhibit a selection of work by its national finalists, including that of its Overall Winner, Category Winners and Runners-up, at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery in Cape Town from 17 May – 14 June 2018. An educational walkabout of the exhibition will take place at 16h30 on Thursday, 17 May 2018. Visitors to the exhibition are encouraged to engage with the diverse range of art and design works from the competition’s various categories, namely, Fashion, Sculpture, Industrial Design, Jewellery and Film, as well as this year’s overall Architecture winner. All entries must aim to express innovation through the medium of concrete. The first day of the exhibition will include a walkabout where visitors can learn more about the works and their creators. After the Cape Town show, the exhibition will travel to Johannesburg for the Turbine Art Fair (12-15 July 2018) and 100% Design South Africa (8-13 August 2018), followed by the KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA) Gallery in Durban. Now in its fifth year, the PPC Imaginarium Awards highlights top emerging talent and assists up-and-coming artists and designers in launching their careers. Entrants stand [...]]]></description>
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