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SEPTEMBER 2004
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News
A very tall story
They might now be regarded as the epitome of tourist kitsch, but giraffes were once objects of profound wonder. Kim Gurney reports on a new puppet show that celebrates this arcane history
Bodies of Meaning
The photographer Gary Schneider, who studied at Michaelis in the 1970s, will shortly have a new book published by Aperture. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
introduces him back to South Africa
Curating the Future
The exhaustive curatorial and selection process that informed the second Brett Kebble Art Awards was an eye-opener, writes Khwezi Gule
Disciplined Language
The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research WISER has done much to revive the role of the public-intellectual debate. Jillian Carman, however, wonders about the institution's commitment to discourse around visual art
Farewell to Drums
Samson Mudzunga is one of 17 local artists participating in the group show Personal Affects, in New York. Diane Reddy visited him in Limpopo province
Freshly Ground
Fashion houses like Black Coffee are referencing a truly local aesthetic, says Charl Blignaut. After visiting SA Fashion Week, he asks whether the annual event is helping to successfully forge a national design identity?
Picking up the Pieces
The Johannesburg Art Gallery has a new director. Former JAG curator Brenton Maart met with the new man in charge, Clive Kellner
News, Investment Focus, Letters to the Editor
Features
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Pieter Hugo's Portraits of people with melanin deficiency confront viewers with the necessity of speaking in a new vocabulary, writes Sean O'Toole
A Ball of Light in the Hand
Artists' books are something of a subterranean art in South Africa. In this primer, Robyn Sassen offers an insight into this marginalised art form
City Centre / Overseas
The postcolonial landscape is not easily defined. In a thoughtful collusion of text and image, Johannesburg-based writer Ivan Vladislavic muses on a landscape both strange and familiar, his words serving as a complement to Roger Palmer's fractured glimpses of the postcolonial world
Nadir to Zenith
The photographer Jo Ractliffe has often been criticised for producing "boring" and "difficult" images, her studies of the land dismissed as "blandscapes". Rory Bester offers a timely re-evaluation of her earlier, black and white output
Other Landscapes
Contemporary South African landscape painting has shaken off a troubled past and is anything but staid, writes Virginia MacKenny
Unspeakable Landscapes
Santu Mofokeng once remarked that his photographic studies of the landscape surrounding Auschwitz and Krakow represented an attempt to "explore the banality of horror", By Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
Exhibitions
A Place Called HomeKZNSA GALLERY, DURBAN Contra MundiASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTS, CAPE TOWN Frances GoodmanGALLERY IN THE ROUND, GRAHAMSTOWN Images of DefianceMUSEUMAFRICA, JOHANNESBURG Ina van ZylART ON PAPER GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG James Webb & James SeyTHE BEETHOVEN ROOM, GRAHAMSTOWN Julia Rosa ClarkJOãO FERREIRA GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Kathryn SmithMONUMENT GALLERY, GRAHAMSTOWN Keith DietrichUS ART GALLERY, STELLENBOSCH Kudzanai ChiuraiZUVA GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG LocalFRANCHISE, JOHANNESBURG Malcolm PayneGOODMAN GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG Manfred ZyllaGALLERY MOMO, JOHANNESBURG Ndiyindoda! Initiation as a Rite of PassageSTANDARD BANK GALLERY, GRAHAMSTOWN Nicola GroblerERDMANN CONTEMPORARY, CAPE TOWN Paul EmmanuelMONUMENT GALLERY, GRAHAMSTOWN Side GallerySIDE GALLERY, GRAHAMSTOWN The Odd EnjineersVICTORIA GIRLS HIGH, GRAHAMSTOWN Three Young PaintersMICHAEL STEVENSON GALLERY, CAPE TOWN Through the Looking GlassALBANY HISTORY MUSEUM, GRAHAMSTOWN Titus MatiyaneTHE PREMISES, JOHANNESBURG Watkin Tudor JonesBELL-ROBERTS GALLERY, CAPE TOWN William KentridgeMONUMENT, GRAHAMSTOWN |
Back Issues
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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
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