FORM OF THE FUTURE
Durban Art Gallery
August 10, 1994

 

Form of the Future was an important exhibition in that it marked the first efforts of the Durban Art Gallery to show younger artists from the region. Hermanides had approached the DAG a year earlier to inquire if they would exhibit his work. When they declined, he spoke to Andries Botha, who was on the DAG board at that time. Through Botha’s efforts, the DAG agreed to an exhibition, which would be a historical survey of all those associated past and present with the Sculpture Department at the Technikon, including the then senior students. This included most of the artists who had been involved with the FLAT and indeed the majority of work exhibited had been previously shown at the FLAT.
It was an important shift for the DAG, not only in terms of the inclusion of younger artists, but also the exhibition of new genres. The DAG would later develop the Red-Eye Event, an experimental program that included installation and performance.

THOMAS BARRY, axe, chalk-board, lifebuoy soap, chalk, 1994