On the first Thursday of every month, explore art galleries and cultural attractions in Cape Town until late.
What a better to start 2016 than by going to First Thursdays Cape Town? Come and visit us tonight at Gallery MOMO!
PROGRAMMING TONIGHT
Video room: Cine-Concert | Der Heilige Berg by Arnold Franck with live performance by Justin Allart
Der Heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain) is a 1926 German mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker and Frida Richard. It was the future filmmaker Riefenstahl's first screen appearance as an actress. Written by Arnold Fanck and Hans Schneeberger, the film is about a dancer who meets and falls in love with an engineer at his cottage in the mountains. After she gives her scarf to one of his friends, the infatuated friend mistakenly believes that she loves him. When the engineer sees her innocently comforting his friend, he mistakenly believes she is betraying him.
The film was an early inspiration for Jonathan Freemantle's solo exhibition at the gallery, titled 'Der Heilige Berg' in reference to the film. In addition to conceptual elements, Freemantle has referenced the two-colour aesthetic of the film in his work. The cine-concert will take place within the exhibition space. Justin Allart is a musician and photographer from Cape Town. He has performed several times at the Cape Town experimental music festival, The Edge of Wrong, and works primarily in the field of noise, drone and field recordings.
Room 1 & 2: Group exhibition, Defining the Narrative
Gallery MOMO Cape Town will be presenting a fresh range of paintings this summer in an attempt to redefine this fascinating medium in the 21st Century. "Defining the Narrative" intends to examine the scope and extent of paint through the gaze of emerging South African painters and mixed-media artists.
Room 3: Jonathan Freemantle, Der Heilige Berg II
Freemantle’s passion for mountains has made him into somewhat of an alchemist and geologist mixed into one.
Through much experimentation and analysis he started to make paintings of mountains using the very substance of the mountains themselves.
FIRST THURSDAYS JANUARY. TONIGHT : THURSDAY 07 JANUARY | 18:00 - 21: 00 | Cape Town
Gallery MOMO Cape Town, 170 Buitengracht Street
Cape Town, South Africa
+27. (21).424.5150
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