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ISSUES
DECEMBER 2004
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News
10 X 15 = 100
10 Years, 100 Artists is more than just another glossy, hardbound art book. The 448-page, 2,6 kg book, which profiles 100 South African artists, offers readers a compelling insight into the local art world. Kim Gurney reports on the early debate its publication has triggered
Blurred Visions
There are fashion designers who male art and artists who make fashion. And then there are those who prefer to avoid labels and create across these two disciplines, writes Nadine Rubin
Imaging and Imagining
Penny Siopsis will shortly be profiled in an extensive monograph. Sipho Mdanda chatted with the artist about her practice
Indigenous Flower of the Month
In her new book Annie Coombes recalls an unusual photographic story that now forms part of a greater narrative about possibilities and impossibilities for rehabilitating the Voortrekker Monument, a foundational icon of the apartheid state
News, Investment Focus, Letters to the Editor
Features
Evidence and Artifice
Kathrin Smith is the 2004 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year. In an Interview, Maureen de Jager questions Smith about her interdisciplinary methodology, following which she offers a reading of the artist's nationally touring show Euphemism
Forensics and Fantasy
Evidence and artifice in the work of Kathryn Smith
It's a Sporting Life
There is little about art that is interesting to sport. Looking at recent works by Tracey Rose and Kevin Brand, Rory Bester reveals that the converse of this assertion is not necessarily true, and that art has the ability to challenge a host of unspoken gestures in sport
Performances of Masculinity
What is it to be a man? Why is there so much interest in masculinity of late? Is there a crisis in masculinity? Yvette Gresle confronts these and other questions
Take it like a man
HIV/ AIDS confronts artists with speaking the unspeakable, writes Brenton Maart
Looking, beeing seen and locating
South African video art, while abundant in form, is furtive in its history. James Sey offers an idiosyncratic reading of its development, practitioners and thematic concerns
Exhibitions
Abrie FourieFOCUS GALLERY, MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART, NEW YORK Africa RemixMUSEUM KUNSTEPALAST, DüSSELDORF Anton KarstelFRANCHISE, JOHANNESBURG Brett Kebble Art AwardsCAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE, CAPE TOWN Colbert MashileGALLERY ON THE SQUARE, JOHANNESBURG Dumile FeniART ON PAPER GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Earthworks/ClaybodiesSASOL MUSEUM, STELLENBOSCH Gabi NgcoboARTSPACE DURBAN, DURBAN Gina WaldmanBELL-ROBERTS, CAPE TOWN Goodall & PlatterERDMANN CONTEMPORARY, CAPE TOWN Greta MatthewsJOãO FERREIRA GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Johannesburg Circa NowJOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Lomo ExhibitionPHOTO ZA, JOHANNESBURG Man of ArdmoreGALLERY ON THE SQUARE, JOHANNESBURG Matt HindleyBELL-ROBERTS GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Mxolisi SapetaCUYLER STREET GALLERY, PORT ELIZABETH Negotiated Identites: Black BodiesJOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Norman CatherinePRETORIA ART MUSEUM, PRETORIA Paul StopforthDAVID KRUT PROJECTS, NEW YORK Paul WeinbergTHE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY ZA, CAPE TOWN ReverbGORDART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Robert HodginsGOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Santu MofokengGALLERY MOMO, JOHANNESBURG Theresa-Anne MackintoshKZNSA GALLERY, DURBAN Velaphi MzimbaEVERARD READ GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Walter OltmannMICHAEL STEVENSON GALLERY, CAPE TOWN
Books
A Decade of Democracy: South African Art, 1994-2004EDITED BY EMMA BEDFORD Double Storey and Iziko Museums of Cape Town, Zander Blom, 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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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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