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  • Tara Gandhi

    A few days ago, we had a very pleasant surprise from a very important person from India. "Tara Gandhi" Vice-Chairperson Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti and Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial trust that was establihed in 1945 by Mahatma Gandhi in memory of his wife. Tara Gandhi is the daughter of Gandhi's last born son Gavadas Gandhi. She was very touched by the place and never retained her feelings about the place, uniforms, the linen, furnitures and the spirit in the house. Finally congratulating Voyageurs du Monde for the work done at Satyagraha house.

  • Press release

    Worldwide press release

    - Times of India : Gandhi's south african house is now a museum

    - Joburg official website : Serene Satyagraha house opens

    - The citizen online : culture and comfort

    - Mail and Guardian :  Gandhi getaway

    - Business Day : Gandhi's home now a museum

    - Visi : at home with Gandhi

  • Satyagraha House official opening

    The opening was attended by senior Indian and French diplomats and tourism representatives.
    Opening Speech (Jean Francois Rial, CEO Voyageurs du Monde) :

    Firstly thanks for accepting our invitation to discover this house.

    This project has been like realizing a dream for me. When I was a teenager I discovered Gandhi and his fight against racism and towards religious tolerance. I was fascinated by his life.

    So, when I discovered two years ago that the house where the Mahatma lived with his architect friend, Kallenbach, was for sale, the dream was born.
    This dream was to create a place where the spirit of Gandhi and his philosophy could continue to live and thrive.

    So, why did our company buy this house and develop the project?
    Because the main values of Voyageurs du Monde (and its 800 employees of over 40 different nationalities), is to promote universalism if all the different cultures, religions and people of the world.

    So doing this project will become the light of our company because in this way we will never forget our values and the reason WHY we built Voyageurs right in the beginning.

    We feel that promoting the Satyagraha values is especially important in the world we all live in together.

    This projet will be never a profitable organisation. All the revenue will go back into the house and its museum. Up keep, maintenance, staff.

    This project would never have seen the day if we had not had the chance to work with an incredible team here :

    Laureen Segall our museum designer, Eric Itskin our specialised historian, Rocco Bosman our marvellous architect, Didier Debaye our house director, mister ? our landscaper, Christine, Amit and Alexandra for all their impeccable taste and "savoir faire" in the interior decoration.
    I want to say a very special thank you to Fabrice Dabouineau who has done an outstanding job in coordinating the whole project, and of course, to my partners and friends Alain et Lionel who never held me back or opposed this seemingly crazy project!

  • WILLIAM KENTRIDGE (Art Gallery)

    WILLIAM KENTRIDGE 10 November 11 to 23 December 11 Goodman Gallery

    William Kentridge's Other Faces has been drawn and filmed over the past year.

    It will be shown at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg in conjunction with a group of working drawings used in the film’s animation, as well as drawing fragments and prints. As with other films in the Drawings for Projection series, the artist uses a 35 mm movie camera to film the successive stages of charcoal drawings that are progressively altered through erasure and overdrawing. Other Faces returns to the figure of Soho Eckstein, the industrialist and developer who is the key protagonist of the Drawings for Projection series.

    In this cycle of nine films created from 1989 through 2003, Kentridge addresses the doubling and contrary sides of the self, personified in the entrepreneur/capitalist Soho and his foil, the poet/ lover Felix. In this most recent work, pin-striped Soho Eckstein moves through a series of collisions of circumstances and recollection. In the film, the city of Johannesburg – inconstant, desperate, desiring, impenetrable – appears not so much as context as it does subject, in images of streets, facades, landscapes, and people.

    Familiar and recent attributes of the city appear, with one image not just suggesting another image but indicating a connection to displaced emotions and displaced histories. There are references to the street corner civil wars of daily life, and to the xenophobic violence of the last few years. Philip Miller, the Johannesburg composer who has worked with William Kentridge over many projects, composed the music for the film. Catherine Meyburgh, video editor for most of the artist’s video work, is the editor.  

    Cost: Free

    Goodman Gallery
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    jhb@goodman-gallery.com
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