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Weighing in the Africa in South Africa
A model project; Achille Mbembe; Afropolitanism; Alfred Thoba; Braam Kruger; Escape to Robben Island; Gabisile Nkosi; Handshakes & Envelopes; Journeys into Strangeness; Life after Hollywood; Neil Goedhals; Odili Donald Odita; Thami Mnyele; The month it stopped making sense
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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.
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
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
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
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.
Hasan & Husain Essop
Hasan and Husain Essop's constructed photographs address more than just the contradictions between modernity and tradition, Islam and the west.
Rowan Smith
Rowan Smith's carved-wood installations, lightboxes and interventions with defunct technology establish a dialogue between obsolescence and the ever shifting new.
Gabrielle Goliath
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.
Reshma Chhiba
Working with painting, sewing and various lens-based media, Reshma Chhiba yields an aesthetic grammar that is distinctly her own and comfortably inter-disciplinary.
Handshakes & Envelopes
Cash, kudos and canapés: Young Turks seize the turrets.
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.
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.
Life after Hollywood
Liza Essers on Tsotsi and buying the Goodman.
A model project
While South Africans fumble and fail in their initiatives to engage the African continent, the city of Dakar leads the way.
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.
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?
Koulla Xinisteris is many things to many people. Some know her as the curator of an esteemed public art collection, others as a tireless arts administrator. Long-time friend Alex Dodd colours in the many blank spaces between.
Harrie Siertsema is an unassuming collector with wide-ranging tastes and an entrepreneurial flair when it comes to showcasing his sizeable art holding. By Miranthe Staden-Garbett
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1 JUN - 31 AUG 2008, Johannesburg Art Gallery
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JHB |
29 JUN - 30 SEP 2008, Johannesburg Art Gallery
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CPT |
12 - 31 AUG 2008, 34 Long
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13 AUG - 19 SEP 2008, Bell-Roberts GALLERY
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DBN |
26 AUG - 14 SEP 2008, KZNSA Gallery
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NIROX SCULPTURE PARK, JOHANNESBURG
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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