Acacia Art Returns To Lüderitz

On Monday the 17th of November South African art tour Acacia Art revisited Lüderitz with some brand new artworks.

Based in the Lüderitz Christian School as part of a fundraiser the exhibition featured an eclectic mix of paintings ranging from impressionism to cartoons and including a wide variety of subject matter including portraits, life drawings, still life, landscapes, baobab trees, and some rather large-busted ballet dancers, who seemed vaguely inappropriate within the confines of a Christian School.

Amongst the 38 South African artists that had contributed to the exhibition there was some fantastic textual work from Otto Klar (1908-1994) and a selection of Frans Claerhout’s (1919-2006) brightly coloured and highly energized paintings. Although the exhibition was mainly a selection of paintings there was also an array of authentic Persian carpets, gold and silver jewellery and antique wooden chests on display.

However due to the lack of space that the makeshift gallery afforded it was unfortunately quite difficult to get a proper sense of many of the paintings whilst the lack of natural light did not do the art work justice.

Acacia Art has been touring Southern Africa for 26 years under the careful guidance of its coordinator George Smith. The company aims to promote South African artists by selling their work up and down South Africa and Namibia.