Co/Mix 2011
We are very busy organising the Co/Mix Exhibition, events program and gallery shop taking place at the National Arts Festival In Grahamstown from 30 June to 10 July. After last year’s Fringe exhibition we vowed to return with something bigger, but even we didn’t know how big it was going to be! We have 26 local and 6 international comic artists and illustrators taking part. If you’re gonna be in Grahamstown for this year’s Fest, you cannot miss it.
Read about it on page 43 and 47 of the Main Festival Booking Kit.
In a little more detail …
CO/MIX 2011 is an innovative group exhibition featuring 26 South Africans and six international artists, each involved in some aspect of comic art and sculpture. CO/MIX is concerned with comic art as an aesthetic form and a narrative platform. It leapfrogs over the barricades that once defended fine art from pop culture, bringing cartoon images onto canvas and fine art works onto usable, wearable surfaces. Drawing inspiration from the Beautiful Losers DIY street art movement, CO/MIX conjoins expressionist comic art with political and underground cartooning and the contemporary visual subcultures of skate, surf, street, hip hop, Indie craft & graffiti, overlaying it all with a passionate concern for aesthetic integrity in the creation of unique art objects.
The exhibition is curated by Andy Mason (CCIBA) and Pete and Elaine Woodbridge (Woo-men Plush Toys) and coordinated by Lieve Vanleeuw (Words & Images). Part of the main festival programme at the 2011 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, CO/MIX 2011 includes a number of related events, including workshops, seminars and an outdoor graffitti wall. A gallery shop selling merchandise such as prints, t-shirts and toys by the artists will be part of the exhibition.
