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WINDHOEK - The Omba Gallery in Windhoek is hosting a very unique exhibition where stone installations by Sharon Gorelick, relatively unknown in art circles, and who aptly calls herself a "rock installer", are juxtaposed, but also complemented by a more than 10-metre long drawing by well-known artist Nicky Marais.
At first sight one finds it hard to see the similarity between the two works, but on closer inspection, all the forms found in Gorelick's stone installations are reflected in the uncompleted work by Marais, and the two works form a pleasing unit.
Marais describes her work as a geometric abstraction by someone who works with shapes, colours, movement, forms and depths that please the creator. She stresses that her work is a drawing and not a painting, hence the title "Big Drawing".
As an artist, she takes the liberty of calling her work whatever she wants.
"Artists work in a free zone and if you try and curtail that free zone, you're doing the entire nation a disservice. If you do not allow the free expression of artistic ideas you are prohibiting the nation from the only free expression allowed in society. All the other spheres of our lives are bound by rules and restrictions and they have to be ordered.
"Artists have a big responsibility to use that freedom responsibly - to open people's minds. The artist does not prescribe, and that is why we are happy when people interpret our works differently, because that frees their minds.
"If you love free expression and you allow artists their free zone, truly amazing things will happen," Marais enthuses.
In contrast, Gorelick explains rather matter-of-factly: "I love rocks and nature and the shape of rocks."
And it is upon this strange love that Gorelick's share of this exhibition is based. She has taken various textured and sized rocks and installed them into interesting arrangements on white pedestals along the length of the gallery. Her husband, Nahum Gorelick, an ardent photographer, has photographed some of her arrangements and his photographs are exhibited along one of the walls.
Sharon very calmly asserts that she is no artist in the conventional sense.
"I do not regard myself as an artist. I am merely a rock collector and do rock installations for myself in my garden. I make designs out of rocks for my own enjoyment because I find rocks soothing and relaxing," she explains.
So why is she exhibiting in a conventional art gallery?
She explains: "I am merely sharing my designs with people who find rocks beautiful. And my installations complement Nicky Marais' designs.
If you are one for beautiful textures, designs and rocks, do not miss this unique exhibition, which runs until October 30.
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At first sight one finds it hard to see the similarity between the two works, but on closer inspection, all the forms found in Gorelick's stone installations are reflected in the uncompleted work by Marais, and the two works form a pleasing unit.
Marais describes her work as a geometric abstraction by someone who works with shapes, colours, movement, forms and depths that please the creator. She stresses that her work is a drawing and not a painting, hence the title "Big Drawing".
As an artist, she takes the liberty of calling her work whatever she wants.
"Artists work in a free zone and if you try and curtail that free zone, you're doing the entire nation a disservice. If you do not allow the free expression of artistic ideas you are prohibiting the nation from the only free expression allowed in society. All the other spheres of our lives are bound by rules and restrictions and they have to be ordered.
"Artists have a big responsibility to use that freedom responsibly - to open people's minds. The artist does not prescribe, and that is why we are happy when people interpret our works differently, because that frees their minds.
"If you love free expression and you allow artists their free zone, truly amazing things will happen," Marais enthuses.
In contrast, Gorelick explains rather matter-of-factly: "I love rocks and nature and the shape of rocks."
And it is upon this strange love that Gorelick's share of this exhibition is based. She has taken various textured and sized rocks and installed them into interesting arrangements on white pedestals along the length of the gallery. Her husband, Nahum Gorelick, an ardent photographer, has photographed some of her arrangements and his photographs are exhibited along one of the walls.
Sharon very calmly asserts that she is no artist in the conventional sense.
"I do not regard myself as an artist. I am merely a rock collector and do rock installations for myself in my garden. I make designs out of rocks for my own enjoyment because I find rocks soothing and relaxing," she explains.
So why is she exhibiting in a conventional art gallery?
She explains: "I am merely sharing my designs with people who find rocks beautiful. And my installations complement Nicky Marais' designs.
If you are one for beautiful textures, designs and rocks, do not miss this unique exhibition, which runs until October 30.
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