NUMBER: 6
Seeing my city through its Art Galleries, Juta Street, Braamfontein
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| A walk along Juta Street, Braamfontein |
The quiet, gentile space of the gallery is a stark contrast to the urban busyness of Juta Street and I was completely enthralled with the Deborah Poynton Exhibition: 'The Human Abstract' , titled after a poem by William Blake. The art of this Cape Town based artist is finely detailed realism combined with loose gestural brushwork and unpainted areas as she explores the Blake theme of each virtue requiring its opposite to exist at all. My virtual spend was R330000 on a 190 x 230cm oil on canvas called 'Desert Wild become a Garden Mild', it held me in an awe.
Our next destination was 99 Juta, a newly renovated Art Deco space, featuring pop-up exhibitions and the iconic Doktor and Misses, a modernist furniture, lighting and interior objects business. Martie wanted to see her friend Claire Waters' pottery at the 991/2 Vases exhibition and we were able to access the space thanks to Katy from Doktor and Misses. The building is exciting, having kept original elements like the staircase, and is a breath of fresh air among the urban decay along Juta.
Any outing needs a good coffee and Braamies has plenty of trendy choices, ours was Post, just near the gallery, an unpretentious, quirky and just perfect for a quiet moment with a dear friend.
