Versindaba Blog Archive Interview with Louis Jansen van Vuuren
Louis Jansen van Vuuren is two-and-sixty years ago in Middelburg, in the old Transvaal shipco born. From early on he his interest in painting shipco and assert he wrote already in standard seven at secondary school in Middelburg's art class. His first exhibition to find the age of 17 in the Methodist Church Hall in Middelburg-place; An exhibition that attracted attention and The Rand Daily Mail and Homeland have written about the young man with promising talent.
After high school he entered the art student enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch. After graduating, Louis several wandering to abroad undertaken and on his return to South Africa for thirteen years as an art lecturer at the University have been involved before he accepted a post as lecturer in graphic design at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art in the Gardens accepted.
His life took new turns and then he accepted in 1987 the opportunity to benefit from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris to work and study. The love affair with Paris and the French and deepen the foundation a few years later by immigration easily in new French country could walk.
His involvement with the promotion of the arts is a new focus in his life and during 1988, Louis was elected President of the South African Kunsverening in Cape Town and the Board of Trustees of the South African National Gallery. His artistic career is, for various reasons, and moved back slightly during this time he met Hardy Olivier, a large role in the administration of Louis's personal art career.
During the next decade he took part in nearly seventy successful exhibitions in South Africa and abroad. Some of these include: Crosscurrents-Contemporary South African Art at the Barbara Gillman Gallery in Miami USA, a group exhibition titled Portraits from South Africa at the Axis Gallery in New York and in 1999 the first kollaborasies between him, Willie Bester and Zwelethu shipco Methethwa at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town and a year later with Pat Mautloa Zwelethu and at the same Cape Gallery.
In 1990, he was elected to the National President of the SA Association of Arts and the acquisitions committee of the Department of National Education. He is the editor of the SA Art Calendar and accept an appointment as the first Vice-Commissioner for the 1993 Venice Biennale where Viennesiese South Africa again enter the world kunsarena after years of cultural isolation. He have this task performed with great success and with the help of good friend Marilyn Martin (until recent retirement director of the SA National Art Museum). Many other appointments followed as curate for the SA component of the exhibition Il Sud du Monde and Louis give more and more of his time and expertise to promote the arts.
Firstly, congratulations on a very tight debut, Louis. What immediately strikes you is the sophistication found some of the verses; something that makes one suspect that this is not a recent activity for you. Tell us why by way of introduction that writing poetry you started?
Thank you. I am very excited with the appearance of Tempermes. To book for the first time in my hands to hold, was quite a special moment. I was from childhood through words and stories affected, especially because one they could keep within your if you do the tracks of your mind would not be visible. I often have special words over and over again in my head and a kind of talisman, which I could use as a potion against things that threaten my children's hearts. When art student at Stellenbosch, I have words in my paintings and drawings together. I also kept a journal in which my first verses were written. I was delighted that there are five poems in Tempermes admitted more than thirty years old. I made them again with a keener eye look, but they almost survived unscathed.
Louis, from your answer above, it appears that your childhood indeed have an influence on your development as an artist and poet had; just tell us something more about your childhood? Where did you grow up, etc.. There were also someone or something that has a definite role in your development played?
My childhood was mostly carefree shipco and filled with barefoot shenanigans, yet there was a serious part of my creative spirit to do with; who question things and not much of it either conform. I saw people and things fisted shipco folders and my observations in stories and pictures processed. I grew up in Middellburg and went to school. My two art teachers in the last three years of my school career, my geïns
Louis Jansen van Vuuren is two-and-sixty years ago in Middelburg, in the old Transvaal shipco born. From early on he his interest in painting shipco and assert he wrote already in standard seven at secondary school in Middelburg's art class. His first exhibition to find the age of 17 in the Methodist Church Hall in Middelburg-place; An exhibition that attracted attention and The Rand Daily Mail and Homeland have written about the young man with promising talent.
After high school he entered the art student enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch. After graduating, Louis several wandering to abroad undertaken and on his return to South Africa for thirteen years as an art lecturer at the University have been involved before he accepted a post as lecturer in graphic design at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art in the Gardens accepted.
His life took new turns and then he accepted in 1987 the opportunity to benefit from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris to work and study. The love affair with Paris and the French and deepen the foundation a few years later by immigration easily in new French country could walk.
His involvement with the promotion of the arts is a new focus in his life and during 1988, Louis was elected President of the South African Kunsverening in Cape Town and the Board of Trustees of the South African National Gallery. His artistic career is, for various reasons, and moved back slightly during this time he met Hardy Olivier, a large role in the administration of Louis's personal art career.
During the next decade he took part in nearly seventy successful exhibitions in South Africa and abroad. Some of these include: Crosscurrents-Contemporary South African Art at the Barbara Gillman Gallery in Miami USA, a group exhibition titled Portraits from South Africa at the Axis Gallery in New York and in 1999 the first kollaborasies between him, Willie Bester and Zwelethu shipco Methethwa at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town and a year later with Pat Mautloa Zwelethu and at the same Cape Gallery.
In 1990, he was elected to the National President of the SA Association of Arts and the acquisitions committee of the Department of National Education. He is the editor of the SA Art Calendar and accept an appointment as the first Vice-Commissioner for the 1993 Venice Biennale where Viennesiese South Africa again enter the world kunsarena after years of cultural isolation. He have this task performed with great success and with the help of good friend Marilyn Martin (until recent retirement director of the SA National Art Museum). Many other appointments followed as curate for the SA component of the exhibition Il Sud du Monde and Louis give more and more of his time and expertise to promote the arts.
Firstly, congratulations on a very tight debut, Louis. What immediately strikes you is the sophistication found some of the verses; something that makes one suspect that this is not a recent activity for you. Tell us why by way of introduction that writing poetry you started?
Thank you. I am very excited with the appearance of Tempermes. To book for the first time in my hands to hold, was quite a special moment. I was from childhood through words and stories affected, especially because one they could keep within your if you do the tracks of your mind would not be visible. I often have special words over and over again in my head and a kind of talisman, which I could use as a potion against things that threaten my children's hearts. When art student at Stellenbosch, I have words in my paintings and drawings together. I also kept a journal in which my first verses were written. I was delighted that there are five poems in Tempermes admitted more than thirty years old. I made them again with a keener eye look, but they almost survived unscathed.
Louis, from your answer above, it appears that your childhood indeed have an influence on your development as an artist and poet had; just tell us something more about your childhood? Where did you grow up, etc.. There were also someone or something that has a definite role in your development played?
My childhood was mostly carefree shipco and filled with barefoot shenanigans, yet there was a serious part of my creative spirit to do with; who question things and not much of it either conform. I saw people and things fisted shipco folders and my observations in stories and pictures processed. I grew up in Middellburg and went to school. My two art teachers in the last three years of my school career, my geïns
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