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ISSUES
OCTOBER 2006
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SPECIAL ISSUE: THE PAN-AFRICAN CONVERSATION
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News
The pricing of Joachim Schönfeldt's beautifully conceived three-headed lioness sculpture, recently exhibited in Johannesburg, offers a rousing critique of the local art market. So why isn't anyone talking about the issue, asks Rory Bester
The view looking up
What do you do if you're not earning big bucks yet still want to buy some art for your walls? Kim Gurney investigates
David Adjaye, El Anatsui, Marlene Dumas, William Kentridge and Yinka Shonibare amongst the artists exhibiting in Cape Town's inaugural art biennial. By Kim Gurney
News, Investment Focus, Letters to the Editor
Features
The carefully designed futuristic drawings and collages of Wangechi Mutu, who recently exhibited in Cape Town, have earned the Kenyan-born artist a cult following internationally. By Tracy Murinik
Artist Nicholas Hlobo has staged two performances wearing a customized outfit that references a Xhosa choral song about a dung beetle and alludes to sacred rites of passage. We asked this year's Tollman Award winner to explain the motivations behind his performance work
At the edge of Definition
Earlier this year Durban-based Mlungisi Zondi won the 2006 MTN new contemporaries award for a performance piece titled silhouette. Here he discusses his evolution as a dancer, conceptual choreographer and performance artist
Doing it for the Kids
Since its inception in 2002 the young artist's project has enabled first solo exhibitions by 16 emerging artists. Julian brown looks how this developmental initiative injected much-needed energy into the Durban art scene
Born and raised in South Africa, Roselee Goldberg is a pioneering figure in the international study of performance/live art – her 1979 book performance: live art 1909 to the present remains a pivotal text. Kathryn Smith spoke to the New York-based critic, curator and scholar
Vice, Vodka & Voodoo
Possession arts, a defunct performance art collective that operated in early 1980s Johannesburg, existed at the interface between meaning and anarchy. Ivor Powell recalls (sort of) his participation in the chaos
"As the African predicament becomes ever more complex, the manifestations of the crisis are to be found in a loss of the virtues of curiosity and astonishment at what the (African) world might be," state Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall in a recent essay on African metropolitan modernity.*
Exhibitions
GOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG GOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICAN JEWISH MUSEUM, CAPE TOWN Methven to MashileWARREN SIEBRITS MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART, JOHANNESBURG WARREN SIEBRITS MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART, JOHANNESBURG JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG National Arts Festival 2006GRAHAMSTOWN WARREN SIEBRITS MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART, JOHANNESBURG |
Back Issues
Back issues are available at the Bell-Roberts Publishing premises. Alternatively, you may order from here or by e-mail.
Painting focus for spring
"Painting is unforgiving, instantly revealing levels of integrity, which can be veiled in other mediums," states Lisa Brice in an interview with fellow painter Godfried Donkor in the spring edition of Art South Africa.
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When ideas take form:exhibitions and exhibition makers
Prompted by the a number of large-scale exhibitions in South Africa in recent months, the new winter edition of Art South Africa is devoted to exhibitions and exhibition makers.
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South African artists on seeing, thinking, making, living...
Writing in the December 2008 issue of Art South Africa, art historian Marilyn Martin lamented "the dearth of texts by artists" in recent times. The March 2010 edition of Art South Africa, which will be launched in Cape Town at Design Indaba Expo(February 26-28, stand B11), directly addresses this absence.
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Three Essays on Photography
The past decade has seen a number of South African photographers rise to local and international prominence. The Summer 2009 issue of Art South Africa, on shelf from December 1, 2009 through February 28, 2010, profiles three highly awarded talents: Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky and the collaborative duo of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.
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Art, Architecture and Auctions
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Black, white and some other colours too
A striking, and in its own way challenging portrait of artist Brett Murray in blackface introduces readers to the latest issue of Art South Africa, currently on shelves. The latest issue offers a compelling mix of irreverent fun and necessary pause.
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Weighing the Africa in South Africa
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On artists and the environment
Artist profiles form the basis of the March 2008 issue of Art South Africa.
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On image making and writing
Three leading literary voices shape the content and tone of the summer edition of Art South Africa, available at leading bookstores from December 1, 2007.
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Following on a series of themed and polemical editions, the first issue of Art South Africa for 2007 takes a refreshingly open-ended approach.
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Focussing on sex, sexuality and eroticism in South African art
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SPECIAL ISSUE: The Pan-African Conversation
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The Picasso & Africa Debate
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21 AUG - 3 OCT 2010, Seippel Gallery Johannesburg
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CPT |
11 FEB - 14 SEP 2010, Raw Vision Gallery | Art with attitude
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16 APR - 3 OCT 2010, Iziko Sa National Gallery
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29 JUN - 5 SEP 2010, Jeu de Paume and the Louvre
8 JUL - 12 SEP 2010, Murcia
GOODMAN GALLERY CAPE, CAPE TOWN
EDITED BY CHRISTIAN NERF AND UG IMBERG (EDS)
MoCa
EDITED BY KATHRYN SMITH
Bell-Roberts Publishing, Goodman Gallery Editions
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