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South African artists on seeing, thinking, making, living...
FEATURES Malcolm Payne on Batiss, Duchamp and Beards; Wayne Barker on Pierneef, anger and the SADF
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IN THE MAGAZINE
Malcolm Payne on Batiss, Duchamp and Beards
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Recently retired from Michaelis School of Fine Art, where he is a professor emeritus, Malcolm Payne is a key figure in this country's experimental and conceptual practice. Coming to prominence in the early 1970s, Payne has distinguished himself as a sculptor, printmaker and video artist. Seated in his Kalk Bay studio, surrounded by a suite of new beard paintings, Payne considers the early influence of Walter Battiss, Marcel Duchamp and musician Jeff Mpakati on his life and work. Dismissive of the way struggle art collaged stock images of violence, he also ventures a thought on how artistic practice can refashion the way we think and speak about art.
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Wayne Barker on Pierneef, anger and the SADF
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An indomitable figure in the recent history of South African art, Wayne Barker emerged during a period when the neo-expressionist idiom was at its height. Although celebrated for his mixed-media painting, his practice encompasses so much more: printmaking, installation, performance and curation, his various activities typically informed by his bawdy sense for fun and provocation. On the eve of his 25-year retrospective, Barker talks to Robert Sloon about destroying Pierneef, inventing Andrew Moletsi, opening the Famous International Gallery, interpreting the legends of South African life and why the studio remains his most important ally.
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JHB |
18 FEB - 19 MAR, Brodie/Stevenson
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JHB |
19 FEB - 17 MAY, Graham's Fine Art Gallery
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CPT |
11 FEB - 14 SEP, Raw Vision Gallery | Art with attitude
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MP |
1 MAR - 31 MAY, The Artist's Press
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NYC |
11 FEB - 13 MAR, Jack Shainman Gallery
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Zanele Muholi wins international awards
Zanele Muholi won the Casa Africa award for best female photographer
and a Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of
African photography (2009). She also received a Fanny [...]
Spier Contemporary 2010 Selects 100 Artists for its National Exhibition
After
an exhaustive nation-wide selection process 100 artists and 132 art
pieces have been chosen for South Africa's largest contemporary art
exhibition, the Spier Contemporary 2010. The [...]
Rijksakademie 2011 applications open
The prestigeous Rijksakademie in the Netherlands is open for applications to their 2011 residency.
Resident artists have usually successfully completed their (art)
studies and have already worked [...]
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