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ISSUES
APRIL 2007
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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News
Johannesburg is being transformed by a number of public art initiatives. While these projects may need to satisfy a number of functions shouldn't the public art at their centre possess value as an art object too? asks Mary Corrigall
Exploring the In Between
The Very Real Time art residency is an enquiry into the spaces between people in South African cities. Organiser Gregg Smith explains exactly what this means
A recent trilogy of exhibitions by Berni Searle raises important questions about the wider practices of exhibition making and their effect on an artist's career, argues Rory Bester
Books about favourite artists offer a rewarding, if increasingly expensive collecting pursuit, writes Kim Gurney
Who Are These People?
Last year 33 curators were put on an island for two weeks. Joseph Gaylard reports back from vansa's survivor: Robben Island
News, Investment Focus, Letters to the Editor
Features
Being Jonathan Shapiro
His newspaper cartoons are an incisive weekly barometer reading of the collective South African experience. But just who is the man behind the famous Zapiro signature? By Kim Gurney
Dignity and Quiet Fanfare
Peter Clarke creates small, intimate works that are as much a reflection of his personal environment as his steadfast ability to imagine. By Kim Gurney
Down Mahlatini Street
Hidden behind an industrial roll-up door in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg is one of the few remaining pioneer post-apartheid art organisations. By Rory Bester
Homage to Water and Other Phenomena
An underwater encounter many years ago suggested Paul Edmunds' first move to object making, writes Brendon Bussy. It also informed his subsequent explorations pattern and process, surface and skin
An element of role-play is central to all portraiture, argues Monique Pelser, this unpublished series of portraits underscoring her point. By Sean O'Toole
The historicist approach to African photography has its merits, writes Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, but it doesn't always adequately convey the theatrical pageantry in Malick Sidibé's portraiture
Zander Blom's Johannesburg home is filled with the strange, the curious and the oddly familiar. Sean O'Toole gets to grips with the latter. Zander Blom is Art South Africa's third Bright Young Thing for 2007
It took photographer Sabelo Mlangeni months of dogged persistence to make this series of photographs of Johannesburg's women street cleaners. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen considers their import.
Sabelo Mlangeni is Art South Africa's second Bright Young Thing for 2007
Jo'burg's inner city now has streets named after jazz stars of the past, something that would doubtlessly make artist Sam Nhlengethwa smile. Alex Dodd heads for his Fordsburg studio to chat with him about Jo'burg streets, jazz and lunching with friends
Speaking in Tongues
Anawana Haloba sees herself as a rebel who has always done her own thing and it is her rebellious tongue that subtly speaks out, writes Ruth Simbao
Exhibitions
Alt PopBELL-ROBERTS GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Andries GouwsAFRICAN ART CENTRE, DURBAN Berni SearleJOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG GOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Comics Brew Festival of Comic ArtMAPUTO GOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Ntombela & Vaughan-EvansKZNSA GALLERY IZIKO SA NATIONAL GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Stefanus RademeyerWARREN SIEBRITS MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART, JOHANNESBURG JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, 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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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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