Data has shown that during the past two years of the pandemic, there has been a significant uptake in animation. It is not surprising to see creatives moving across the porous art silos to the medium, from what would have been a more traditional divide between fine art and creative industries.
Taking its name from CEL – an abbreviation for celluloid, or a transparent sheet of film material that can be drawn or painted on, and which constitutes one frame in the filming of an animated cartoon – the exhibition pits internationally renowned experts in the field, such as Kentridge, with artists new to the medium, learnt through a master workshop / residency presented by BRAG.
