Local Art • 1951 • II
Christo Coetzee departs for London to undertake postgraduate study at the Slade School of Art under Prof William Coldstream and becomes close friends with designer, photographer and art collector Anthony Denney. He has a solo exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in London in 1955 before leaving for Europe.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.