South African landscapes in visual art, poetry and music
Title: “Riku en Jackie se lang inrypad”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 29.5×41.5cm.
The view from Riku and Jackie Lätti’s house in Strand, Western Cape. The title refers to the two Afrikaans musicians’ “long driveway”. The street dead-ends in the entrance to their house, so when driving up to their house it is almost like driving down a very long driveway. Riku has been assisting Andries with the mixing and arrangements of a new album.
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Title: “Bad met flaminkplant” (Bathtub with anthurium), by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 59x42cm
A scene from a bathroom at a farmstead (Waylands Country House) in the Katberg Mountains of the Eastern Cape, near a settlement called Post Retief.
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Title: “Early Birds”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 59x42cm
An interior of the Olympia Cafe in Kalk Bay, South Africa. The title suggests a conversation with Ed Hopper’s “Nighthawks”.
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Title: “Katberg laatoggendlig”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 42x30cm.
The title translated from Afrikaans: Katberg late morning light. The dining hall window of the Waylands manor house in the Katberg Mountains of the Eastern Cape, near a settlement called Post Retief.
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Title: “Karoo-dorp: Winteraand”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 40.5×40.5cm.
Andries delivered the annual N.P. van Wyk Louw memorial lecture at the University of Johannesburg on 6 September 2018. Along with the lecture, this painting was presented as a gift to the University of Johannesburg. Van Wyk Louw was an Afrikaans-language poet and public intellectual. The title of the lecture was “Utopiese verbeelding en Afrikaans: ʼn Gesprek met T. Dunbar Moodie en N.P. van Wyk Louw” [Utopian Imagination and Afrikaans: A Conversation with T. Dunbar Moodie and N.P. van Wyk Louw]. Dunbar Moodie is one of the most insightful authors on the history of Afrikaner nationalism. The lecture was dedicated to the painter Walter Meyer, who was murdered at the end of 2017. Meyer’s grandfather, Judge Rumpff, who presided over the Treason Trial (1956-1961), is mentioned in the lecture, as well as Rick Turner, a South African philosopher and activist who was assassinated in 1977. The lecture (in Afrikaans) can be downloaded here. The painting depicts the house in Sutherland where Van Wyk Louw grew up.
Title: “Eerste Nahoon nokturne”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, 42x59cm
The title translates from Afrikaans as “First Nahoon nocturne” – the first of an intended series of nocturnes from this suburb of the South African city East London.
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Title: “Salem, Eastern Cape”, by Andries Bezuidenhout, oil on canvas, framed, 40.6×40.6cm
This oil painting was part of an exhibition titled “Vanishing Karoo” (March to April 2019) at the Imibala Gallery in Graaff-Reinet. Andries also opened the exhibition with an address on Karoo landscapes and a musical performance. Salem is one of the oldest settler towns in the Eastern Cape and formed the backdrop to one of South Africa’s most controversial land disputes, which ended up in the Constitutional Court. Two historians, Martin Legassick and Herman Giliomee, supported both sides with expert testimonies on the history of conflicts over land in the area.
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These oil paintings were part of a group exhibition titled “Hoek van my heelal / Corner of my universe”, at the Tina Skukan Gallery in Pretoria, which ran from 23 September to 17 October 2018. Participating artists were Diek Grobler, Michèle Nigrini, Andries Bezuidenhout, Helena Groenewald and Retha Buitendach. More on the exhibition here.
Charcoal drawings that were part of an exhibition on the topic of Olive Schreiner at the Breytenbach Gallery in Wellington, South Africa in April 2018. Participating artists were Susan Bloemhof, Catherine Brennon and Andries Bezuidenhout.
Oil paintings that formed part of a group exhibition on the topic of Olive Schreiner at the Breytenbach Gallery in Wellington in 2018. Participating artists were Susan Bloemhof, Catherine Brennon and Andries Bezuidenhout.
