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AUGUST 2008
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WEIGHING THE AFRICA IN SOUTH AFRICA
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News
News in Brief, Investment Focus, Letters to the Editor
Features
A model project
While South Africans fumble and fail in their initiatives to engage the African continent, the city of Dakar leads the way.
Achille Mbembe
The Cameroon-born scholar Achille Mbembe came to South Africa in 1999, in part because he believed "something absolutely crucial for the future of the continent might be happening here". Nearly ten years later, he takes stock – critically, not cynically.
Afropolitanism
Following a recent visit to three US cities, Boston, Washington D.C. and New York, art historian Ruth Simbao suggests it's time for curators and critics to move on from their habit of plucking artists with all sorts of African connections and presenting them under fashionable rubrics that limit their work.
Alfred Thoba
The transition from apartheid to the current, post-apartheid era have had limited effect on painter Alfred Thoba's financial wellbeing, and even less effect on his focus as a chronicler of moral injustice
Braam Kruger
Our friend Braam Kruger recently died prematurely. He was an exceptional character. Braam could be considered one of the best contemporary South African artists. He could use a pen and pencil like Rembrandt and Picasso. He could slap paint on a canvas like Titian and Velasquez. He was far ahead of his countrymen, always challenging, moving and ignoring boundaries.
Escape to Robben Island
"Build a boat, grow a beard," stated Douglas Gimberg and Christian Nerf in March 2007 – and then did exactly that. Francis Burger chronicles the recent highlights of these Cape Town artists' year-long collaboration, which included a rowing outing to Robben Island.
Gabisile Nkosi
Gabisile Nkosi, 34, talented artist, printmaker, active community catalyst, mentor, friend, daughter and mother, was tragically killed in her home in Lidgetton in the early hours of May 27.
Handshakes & Envelopes
Cash, kudos and canapés: Young Turks seize the turrets.
Journeys into Strangeness
Eight years ago Rory Bester presented a research exhibition that took as its starting point the increasing incidence of xenophobia in South Africa.
Life after Hollywood
Liza Essers on Tsotsi and buying the Goodman.
Neil Goedhals
Artist, musician and iconoclast Neil Goedhals died 18 years ago. His art, which is enigmatic, cryptic, antiexpressionist and deliberately bad, is now largely forgotten. Art South Africa revisited his archive.
Odili Donald Odita
Odili Donald Odita's distinctive paintings, notable for their vivid colours and rhythmic energies, present the viewer with a distillation of African tradition, modernity and a transnational visual aesthetic
Thami Mnyele
Thami Mnyele's life ended abruptly in 1985 when he was murdered by apartheid operatives. In anticipation of a large retrospective of his work at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Mnyele's biographer Diana Wylie discusses the immensity of the decisions that underlie his sensitive drawings and bold anti-apartheid posters
The month it stopped making sense
During the recent wave of anti immigrant violence a group of blind Zimbabweans living in central Johannesburg were attacked and brutalised. Why?
Bright Young Things
Reshma Chhiba, Gabrielle Goliath, Hasan & Husain Essop, Rowan Smith
Rowan Smith's carved-wood installations, lightboxes and interventions with defunct technology establish a dialogue between obsolescence and the ever shifting new, writes Nadine Botha
Hasan and Husain Essop's constructed photographs address more than just the contradictions between modernity and tradition, Islam and the west, writes Shamil Jeppie
Working with painting, sewing and various lens-based media, Reshma Chhiba yields an aesthetic grammar that is distinctly her own and comfortably inter-disciplinary, writes Robyn Sassen
Gabrielle Goliath's recent work is as much about the political and historical meanings of the body as it is about self-love and self-loathing, writes Anthea Buys
Exhibitions
An Alternative ModernistIZIKO SA NATIONAL GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Black WomanhoodHOOD MUSEUM OF ART, HANOVER D'urbanKZNSA GALLERY, DURBAN David KoloaneGOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Home Lands – Land MarksHAUNCH OF VENISON, LONDON Jean Brundrit, Nokali Nawa, Zoe MoosmanASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTS, CAPE TOWN Joël Mpah DoohAFRONOVA, JOHANNESBURG Kay HassanJOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG MTN New ContemporariesUNIVERSITY OF JHB ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG National Arts FestivalGRAHAMSTOWN Olaf BisschoffROOKE GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Pieter Hugo and Alfred ThobaWARREN SIEBRITS MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART, JOHANNESBURG
Books
Angaza Afrika: African Art NowCHRIS SPRING Francolin Publishers, 2008
Diane VictorELIZABETH RANKIN, KAREN VON VEH David Krut Publishing, 2008
Message and Meaning: The MTN Art CollectionEDITED BY PHILIPPA HOBBS MTN Foundation, 2006
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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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JHB |
1 SEP - 30 NOV 2010, Graham's Fine Art Gallery
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JHB |
2 SEP - 10 OCT 2010, Nirox Foundation Project Space
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CPT |
1 JUN - 30 NOV 2010, Rose Korber
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CPT |
6 JUN 2010 - 31 JAN 2011, Iziko Good Hope Gallery
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MP |
1 SEP - 30 NOV 2010, The Artist's Press
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DBN |
1 SEP - 30 NOV 2010, African Art Centre
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NYC |
2 MAY - 19 SEP 2010, Jewish Museum New York
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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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