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Hermanus Fynarts Festival

10 Jun 2016

THE STEPHAN WELZ SERIES OF FYNARTS TALKS

11-19 June 2016

Sponsored by Strauss & Co
 

All talks are held at the Municipal Auditorium unless specified.

Saturday 11 June	10.00	John Kani	The Role of Arts in South Africa
Saturday 11 June	11.00	Louis Jansen van Vuuren, Hardy Olivier & Isabella Niehaus	Bella and the Boys
Saturday 11 June	15.00	Louis Jansen van Vuuren	Art in the Round – A Painting Performance
Saturday 11 June	15.00	Christopher Hope	A Distant Drum (Windsor Hotel)
Sunday 12 June	10.00	Carol Baker, Noseti Makubalo and Cebo Mvubu	The Keiskamma Art Project
Sunday 12 June	11.15	Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) & Christopher Hope	Is South Africa Beyond Satire?
Monday 13 June	9.00	Richard Cock	What’s in a Name? (Harbour Rock Restaurant)
Monday 13 June	10.00	Marilyn Martin	1. The Two Poles of Art: Meissonier vs Monet
Monday 13 June	11.15	Marilyn Martin	2. The Judgement Reversed
Monday 13 June	14.00	Rodney Trudgeon	The Art of the Conductor
Monday 13 June	15.15	Adi Cloete	A Journey through Jewellery
Tuesday 14 June	10.00	Rodney Trudgeon	The Berlin Philpharmonic – 100 years of Recordings
Tuesday 14 June	11.15	Pieter Coertzen	The French Huguenots of South Africa after 1988
Tuesday 14 June	14.00	Chris Whitehouse	Artistic Patterns in Plants (Windsor Hotel)
Tuesday 14 June	15.15	Vic Hamilton-Attwell	Hidden Art in the Sexual Life of Flowers (Windsor Hotel)
Wednesday 15 June	10.00	Anne Marie Bezdrob	The Many Faces of Winnie Mandela
Wednesday 15 June	11.15	Michael Godby	Home Truths – Domestic Interiors in South African Collections
Wednesday 15 June	14.00	Titia Ballot	The Fine Art of Printmaking (Courtyard Room, Marine Hotel)
Wednesday 15 June	15.00	Warren Siebrits	Walter Whall Battiss (Walker Bay Art Gallery)
Thursday 16 June	10.00	James Gray	Brothers-in-Arms – The Delville Wood Story (United Church)
Thursday 16 June	11.15	Marica Otto & Libby de Villiers	Slow Violence (United Church)
Friday 17 June	10.00	Anthony Hamilton Russell	French Influence on Wine Making in South Africa
Friday 17 June	11.15	Felicity Jervis	Food Glorious Food, in Art
Saturday 18 June	9.00	Max du Preez	The Art of Free Speech (Harbour Rock)
Saturday 18 June	10.00	Mike Bruton	When I was a Fish
Saturday 18 June	11.15	David Kramer in conversation with Christopher Hope
Saturday 18 June	14.00	Sheik Aslam Tambara	Aspects of Islam and Architecture (Mosque, Main Road)
Sunday 19 June	10.00	Francis Galloway, Petrovna Metelerkamp And Karin Schimke	Ingrid Jonker & Andre Brink, Two Sestigers in Love & in Conversation
Sunday 19 June	11.15	Ingrid Jonker Worldwide – a Multimedia Film by Petrovna Metelerkamp

About Strauss & Co:

Strauss & Co is South Africa’s leading auction house. It was founded in 2009 by a consortium of business leaders and industry experts, including Stephan Welz, Elisabeth Bradley, Conrad Strauss, Vanessa Phillips, Ann Palmer and Bina Genovese. The company has the highest market share amongst the three leading auction houses specialising in South African art globally. In 2015 the company’s turnover surpassed R200 million – a sum unrivalled by any auction house dealing in South African art in a single year.