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ISSUES
MARCH 2005
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News
Blurring the Boundaries
Journals and homemade magazines celebrating the magical relationships between literature, art, music and drama once flourished in South Africa. Alex Dodd discusses their legacy
Departures and Arrivals
South African documentary photography is no longer bound by the conventions that long defined it, writes Svea Josephy
In Search of African Forms
The adress 1 Polly Street, Johannesburg is synonymous with a group of idealists. In this extract from a new book on the Polly Street Art Centre, Elza Miles recalls the sculptural work of Sydney Kumalo and Tosby Keipedele
The Quiet Mentor
Both in her personal capacity and as South Africa's leading literary figure, Nadine Gordimer has had a significant influence on the Country's artists. Henk Russouw speaks to some of these artists
News, Investment Focus, Letters to the Editor
Features
A Northern Story
Late last year the retiring woodcarver Lice Phillip Rikhosto jointly won the 2004 Brett Kebble Art award. Long-time friend Kathy Coates recently paid him a visit to find out about life after the award
Borderline Cases: Jereny Warfer's radical edge
Jeremy Warfer has produced art environments in which the condition of sculpture approaches the condition of language, writes David Bunn. Here the Author concentrates our attentions on Warfer's abstracted, site-specific installations
Sex, Lies and Simulacra
Much has been written about this year's Standard Bank Young Artist award recipient, Wim Botha. Curious to glean her own first-hand insights, Hazel Friedman entered into a dialogue with this measured and suggestive artist
Some Sort of Place: recent work by Roger Ballen
The photographer Roger Ballen has described the world of his photographs as "an amalgam of the asylum, the subconscious, and the castle". Bronwyn Law-Viljoen enters this dense symbolic universe
The Fire Starter
Sandile Zulu inhabits a formally spare but symbolically saturated aesthetic universe, writes Colin Richards. This Text, an edited extract from his forthcoming TAXI Art Book, offers a compelling description of Zulu's studio environment
Bright Young Things II
Two Years ago Art South Africa spotlighted the new, up-and-coming stars of the South African art world. It's time to repeat the act, focusing on practitioners working in sculpture and applied disciplines, we profile fife emerging artists whose production has variously shown early promise
Exhibitions
Art in the DarkFAAN SMITH PARK, JOHANNESBURG Aryan KaganofMUTI GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Bruce ArnottIRMA STERN MUSEUM, CAPE TOWN Guy TillimIZIKO SA NATIONAL GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Ilifa LaBantu / Voice-OversIZIKO SA NATIONAL GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Jan VerboomERDMANN CONTEMPORARY, CAPE TOWN Jeremy WaferTHE GOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Jeremy WaferGOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Judy WoodbourneART ON PAPER GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Katherine BullJOãO FERREIRA GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Nathaniel SternJOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Oppitafel IIIARTSPACE FINE ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Pieter HugoMICHAEL STEVENSON GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Rhett MartynOBERT CONTEMPORARY, JOHANNESBURG Stefanus RademeyerWARREN SIEBRITS MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART, JOHANNESBURG Tracy RoseGOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Zhané WarrenOLD FORT, CONSTITUTION HILL, JOHANNESBURG
Books
Cape Town Fringe: Manenberg Avenue is Where it's HappeningDAVID LURIE Double Storey Books, Zander Blom, 2004
Voice-Overs: Wits Writings Exploring African Art WorksEDITED BY A. NETTLETON, F. RANKIN-SMITH AND J. CHARLTON University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries, 2004
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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 |
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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