Casa Labia Cultural Centre will be closed to the public from Monday 22nd July up to and including Monday 29th July 2013 for routine restoration and maintenance.
CULTURAL EVENTS
JUNE 2013
CONCERTS The Casa Labia Morning Concert Series arranged and presented by George Hill
Thursday 13th June – 10h45 Sarah Acres (cello), Albert Combrink (piano)
R70 pp includes the concert and a 10% discount in the café for lunch tables of 2 or more people, booked in advance.
Champagne Concert
Sunday 30th June – 17h00 Cole Porter – A Golden Era
Join us as we celebrate Cole Porter, one of the greatest song writers of the 20th Century, with songs including those perennial classics Night and Day, It’s de Lovely, Too Darn Hot, Well did you Evah, I Get a Kick Out Of You and many more!
With
Lainey Boonzaier (soprano) and Len Ward (keyboard)
Lainey Boonzaier was born in the United Kingdom, and came to South Africa in the early 70’s. She has been involved in theatre all her life, having studied drama, song and dance. Lainey is a graduate of The University of Cape Town College Of Music, in Jazz Studies with Distinction. She has been performing in and around Cape Town since the late 90’s.
Music has always played an important role in Len Ward’s life, having played piano and guitar in bands since a young age. In recent years he has specialised in playing the keyboard. Len was born in Cape Town and educated at Bishops. He was employed by the Navy as an Engineering Consultant, and has served in the Marines. Len has his own Electrical Engineering business. He is also an antique car specialist.
R150 pp includes a glass of Champagne and our famous cheese straws
LECTURES
Wednesday 12th June – 11h00
Rosalind Malandrinos Leonardo da Vinci and The Last Supper
This lecture will explore the popular theme of the Last Supper during the Italian Renaissance, and its treatment by a number of artists such as Giotto, Monaco and Ghirlandaio. In a detailed analysis of the 1495 version by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refectory of the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, we will endeavour to establish what makes it such a unique and enduring image.
Wednesday 19th June – 11h00
British Landscape in the 19th Century
During the 19th Century Britain transformed into a powerful industrial nation, the effects of which were felt most strongly in the vanishing countryside. This lecture will focus on the function of landscape paintings as a nostalgic reminder of idealised bucolic life as well as serving as a backdrop against which the plight of the rural poor was highlighted.
R55 pp per lecture
Includes the lecture and a 10% discount in the café for lunch tables of 2 or more people, booked in advance.
Gallery
Anthea Delmotte
1st June to 21st July
Portals is a series of portraits by Anthea Delmotte which form visual interviews with current leading South African Fine Artists as well as key figures in the South African Fine Art market.
Portals is an expression of Delmotte’s deep fascination, appreciation and love of art; the body of work has been four years in the making. Delmotte’s goal is to culminate the series in a book as both a document of her own artwork and as a tribute to the role players that are shaping and forming the current South African art landscape, and of course like past South African Masters and mentors – will undoubtedly shape the future of what is to come.
The portraits work on various levels – they are an exploration of the external world and surface representation, as well as the interior emotional, psychological and creative world occupied and explored by both Delmotte and her subject. They are first and foremost a visual document of appearance – the portrait, the artist’s artworks, the physical world they are placed within and a study of surface and texture. Secondly, by situating the artists within their constructed art spaces – the artist’s studio, which has a long historical precedence as a metaphor for the internal world of the artist – Delmotte has engaged with an exploration of the inner pysche of her subjects, as well as their own exploration of their interior world which she has re-presented to the observer.
By faithfully studying and reproducing the artworks of the artist, Delmotte also engages with the artist’s individual forms of artistic expression, subject and style, while playing with notions of representation and illusion. In engaging with forms of artistic expression other than her own, this has become part of Delmotte’s own artistic journey and growth through stylistic exploration.
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