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  • Jodi Bieber, Bophelo Tladinyane, aged 20, morningside, 2017. "I feel strong about the fact that I get to live the best of both worlds. I am treated differently because I am black and I live in a white environment. My original family comes from a village. Outsiders have issues with this. Someone asked me last year “Why do you live with white people?”. I am positive about my identity. The fact that I am different and I love being weird. This makes me feel strongly about peoples confusion around race and Identity. What about the 21st century family?” #i am contradiction.
    Five outstanding African photography series awarded for the 8th CAP Prize. The five winners of the 8th Contemporary African Photography Prize – CAP Prize were announced at photo basel international art fair on 12 June 2019 at 5pm. The winners are: Jodi Bieber, South Africa Sanne de Wilde & Bénédicte Kurzen, Netherlands & Nigeria Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo, South Africa Abdo Shanan, Algeria Jansen van Staden, South Africa The...
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    Contemporary African Photography Prize 2019 winners announced
  • LATITUDES is a new fair for African art in international times Bringing together a curated selection of artists, galleries, independent curators and institutions, LATITUDES is a platform for the diverse art economies of the majority world. The fair takes a lateral and flexible approach to mediating and selling art, in which all applicants are considered equally viable. LOCATION The first edition of...
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    LATITUDES Art Fair 2019
  • Grace Cross, Lemon, 2019. Oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm .
    A pointed affront to conventional aesthetic rules SMITH is excited to present 'Bad Taste: Image in Crisis', a group show eschewing taste and the pursuit of conventional beauty in favour of art that is disruptive, kitsch and unruly. In compiling the collection SMITH encouraged its contributing artists to free themselves from the making of so-called beautiful work. The result is a...
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    Bad Taste: Image in Crisis
  • Jan Neethling, Yes I Lied and Ill do it Again, 2017.
    Jan Neethling Teams up with Graham Modern & Contemporary for 4th Solo Exhibition Graham Modern & Contemporary, Johannesburg’s premier gallery destination for African Art, is set to unveil the latest body of work by accomplished Johannesburg-based artist, Jan Neethling. ‘Images’, which will be open to the public between 20 June and 18 July 2019, is a vibrant collection of canvasses...
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    A Theatre of Life
  • Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz 2019, Mandla Mlangeni, will provide a musical journey as part of Oratorio of a Forgotten Youth: Musical Reflections on the Youth of '76. A retrospective on the uprisings of 16 June 1976, the production intends to mark the 40th anniversary of these events through a musical and theatrical narrative. Directed by Mandla Mbothwe, it features a...
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    Oratorio of a Forgotten Youth: Musical Reflections on the Youth of ’76
  • Otobong Nkanga and Emeka Ogboh, Aging Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard Chisel from the Past, 2019. Multi-channel sound installation, sculpture and light installation, poetry. Dimensions variable. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. Courtesy of the artists
    Brendon Bell-Roberts travelled to Sharjah in the UAE in March to attend the 14th edition of the Sharjah Biennale (SB14) Africa’s growing presence in the region was epitomised by artists Otobong Nkanga and Emeka Ogboh receiving this year’s Sharjah Biennale 14 Prize. The Biennale illustrates the importance of inclusion and dialogue with artists and markets on the fringe as the...
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    Echos of Empire, Space and Time
  • Arhtur Jafa, The White Album, 2019. Single channel video projection, colour, sound. Photographer:Francesco Galli. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia. Jafa’s (b. 1960 USA, lives and works in Los Angeles) film won the Golden Lion for Best Participant in the International Exhibition ‘May You Live In Interesting Times’. Which in equal measure, is an essay, a poem and portraiture. Jafa uses appropriated and original footage to reflect upon issues of race. Just as the film critiques a moment fraught with violence, in tenderly portraying the artist’s friends and family, it also speaks to our capacity for love.
    A case for Venice Some truths in the art world appear to be self-evident, beyond question, and beyond context. One such absolute is that inclusion at the La Biennale di Venezia is the ultimate achievement in the art world. This is why influential patrons, industry stakeholders, and global media communicate this 124-year-old biennale to the international art community, and the...
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    When can we talk about the art?
  • 10 international guest artists are coming to Istanbul to collaborate with artisans Artists from all over the world have been invited to participate in Istanbul Modern's "International Artist Residency Program", launched in 2019 with the support of the Istanbul Development Agency (ISTKA). The program is the first of its kind to be organized by a museum in Turkey and will...
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    Istanbul Modern launches its "International Artist Residency Program"
  • Arthur Jafa
    Awards of the 58th International Art Exhibition Venice, May 11th, 2019 The Jury of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, comprising Stephanie Rosenthal (President of the Jury, Germany), Defne Ayas (Turkey/The Netherlands),Cristiana Collu (Italy), Sunjung Kim (Korea), and Hamza Walker (USA), has decided to present the following awards: https://www.instagram.com/p/BxaQo9olUxl/ Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Lithuania: Sun & Sea (Marina) (Lina Lapelyte, Vaiva Grainyte and Rugile Barzdziukaite) Commissioner: Rasa Antanaviciute. Curator: Lucia Pietroiusti. A special mention has been awarded to the...
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    58th La Biennale di Venezia: Golden Lion's announced
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COLLECTOR. magazine

  • WORLD RECORD: Sam Nhlengethwa, Glimpses of the Fifties and Sixties, sold for R967 300
    Aspire went into its latest Johannesburg auction with an innovative strategic focus on quality over quantity, producing spectacular sales of works by under-represented black artists and a special section dedicated to photographs, which proved a resounding triumph, in a first of its kind in the South African auction market. The company continued its resounding success with top international artist...
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    Aspire Art Auctions defies flat market in groundbreaking Johannesburg sale
  • William Kentridge | Drawing of William and Anne | Charcoal on paper | 99 x 70cm | R 1 800 000 - 2 500 000
    Strauss & Co Johannesburg Auction - 20 May 2019 Strauss & Co, the world’s foremost auction house for South African art, is delighted to announce details of its forthcoming Johannesburg sale at the Wanderers Club on 20 May. Following shortly on the company’s recording-breaking R106 million sale in Cape Town, this offering includes important artworks by moderns Alexis Preller, Irma...
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    Strauss & Co sale highlights how artist-teachers have shaped SA art
  • Chéri Samba, (born in 1956, Democratic Republic of Congo) L’attachement aux racines, 2010. Acrylic and glitter on canvas, 135 × 200cm. Estimate: 60.000 / 80.000€
    On May 15th, PIASA will present its ninth African contemporary art sale. Some 150 modern and contemporary works, paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures will offer a panorama of the diversity of a buoyant art scene. A segment dedicated to Textiles & Design will be presented in an exclusive online sale. The first section of the catalogue will be dedicated to modern...
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    PIASA Auction House ninth African contemporary art sale
  • Hassan El Glaoui / La Sortie Du Roi / £80,000-120,000 / Copyright: The Estate of the Artist
    Sotheby’s Sale Returns for its Fourth Consecutive Season on 2 April 2019 March 2019, London: This April, Sotheby’s dedicated sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art will return to London for a fourth consecutive season. Since the inauguration of the series in 2017, Sotheby’s sales in the category have achieved fifty world records, championing the work of artists from across the...
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    Modern and Contemporary African Art Returns to London
  • ART AFRICA’s collaboration with Robin Sprong for the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2019. All images courtesy of Robin Sprong.
    Creating moods and atmospheres with cultivating designs ART AFRICA has had the pleasure of working with the Cape Town-based, multi-award winning wallpaper studio Robin Sprong on more than one occasion. What has always set Robin Sprong apart is the company’s focus on creative collaboration and artistic nurturance brought together with high-end printing facilities and surface print offering.   The Desert Grace Lodge, Namibia,...
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    Wallpaper that speaks
  • Exterior of Villa Africa.
    New gallery and showroom in downtown Cape Town, celebrates the exuberance of the contemporary African design scene. The designer Philip Tyers has combined an eclectic collection of art, sculpture and furniture which combines the tribal rawness with honed international design sensibility for more than twenty-five years, Philip has created a unique branded interior which expresses the latest trend in African...
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    Villa Africa
  • Fallen From Grace, 1972-1976. Watercolour on canvas, 93.5 x 93.5cm. All images courtesy of the artist & SMO Contemporary Art.
    The Nigerian Modernist who contributed to building the bedrock of the contemporary art movement in Nigeria Professor Oseloka Osadebe is one of the most important artists to come out of Onitsha, Nigeria. He has made many contributions to the growth of contemporary art in Nigeria. An active member of the Zaria Art Society, Osadebe left Nigeria to pursue his graduate...
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    Living Between Spirituality and Reality
  • Untitled, 2018. Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 170cm.
    The Cape Verdian brothers, Manuel and Tchalé Figueira While genetics play a major role in artistic talent and ‘it is in the family’ is a common refrain as an explanation for all kinds of abilities, in visual art it is quite unusual for siblings to achieve concurrently major artistic reputations. In the case of Cape Verdian Figueira brothers, that is...
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    Masters we need to master
  • Lot 71. Mary Sibande, Her Majesty, Queen Sophie. Colour digital print. Image size: 104 x 69cm. R 120 000 - 160 000.
    Strauss & Co’s benchmark sale of contemporary art returns to the V&A Waterfront Strauss & Co is pleased to announce the second of its contemporary art sales, the only such sale in South Africa devoted exclusively to this exciting category. The announcement of this 107-lot sale, due to be held on 16 February during the run of the Investec Cape...
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    Strauss & Co Art Auction returns to V&A Waterfront
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BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS

  • FRUIT SALAD RETURNING TO CAPE TOWN AFTER A SIX-YEAR ABSENCE, YOUNG PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND CHOREOGRAPHER GAVIN KRASTIN SPOKE TO GENNA GARDINI ABOUT ART, FRUIT AND HOMECOMINGS. top - bottom Gavin Krastin, Lady Exhibiting Satirical Fruit Salad, 2012, ‘Project 200: The Misses/Missus Series’, performance, National Arts Festival; Gavin Krastin, sub-, 2011, performance. Photo: Dianne Jordan; Gavin Krastin, The Pied Piper Pipe Bomber, 2012, ‘Project 200: The Misses/Missus Series’, performance....
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    Gavin Krastin
  • AA BYT BihlebeziSiwani1
    By Anna Stielau Buhlebezwe Siwani, detail from the series 'Inzilo: ngihlahla kwa bafileyo', 2014. Photographer: Raymond du Toit “Someone always cries during my performances,” Buhlebezwe Siwani tells me, adding, “There’s always at least one.” She isn’t bragging – it’s an observation delivered more as a statement of fact than a badge of pride. I ask why she...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    Buhlebezwe Siwani
  • Art South Africa Volume 3: Issue 03 Nandi Mntambo; Dineo Seshee Bopape; Stefanus Rademeyer; Langa Magwa; Jacki McInnes HIRSUTE DIVAS Nandi Mntambo, Idle, 2004, cow hide, fibreglass, resin and steel, 900 x 470 x 590mm. Emerging sculptors who buck the current trend towards installation and cutting-edge new media still need to keep one foot firmly enough in the avant-garde camp to remain on the...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    March 2005
  • Art South Africa Volume 5: Issue 03 Monique Pelser; Sabelo Mlangeni; Zander Blom IDENTITY SWAP AN ELEMENT OF ROLE-PLAY IS CENTRAL TO ALL PORTRAITURE, ARGUES MONIQUE PELSER, THIS UNPUBLISHED PORTFOLIO OF WORK UNDERSCORING HER POINT. BY SEAN O’TOOLE. On one level, her photographs are easily explained. In the manner of the German photographer August Sander, Monique Pelser, a Rhodes University MFA graduate, sought...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    March 2007
  • Art South Africa Volume 5: Issue 04 Pierre Fouché; Lawrence Lemoana; Ruth Sacks EMOTIONAL EXORCISM PIERRE FOUCHÉ ENGAGES IN PART WITH ISSUES OF SEXUALITY BUT DOES NOT WANT HIS WORK LABELLED FOR ANY SPECIFIC AUDIENCE, WRITES KIM GURNEY. left - right Pierre Fouché, The distance between us I, 2003, acrylic and pen on found cardboard puzzle, 135 x 195cm; Pierre Fouché, The distance between us III,...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    June 2007
  • Art South Africa Volume 6: Issue 01 Nelson Makamo; Nyaniso Lindi; Colleen Alborough VOICES OF THE FAMILY NELSON MAKAMO SPEAKS WITH ROBYN SASSEN ABOUT HOW THE WISDOM OF HIS GRANDFATHER UNDERLIES HIS ART MAKING, WHICH RECENTLY CAUGHT THE EYE OF ITALIAN COLLECTORS. At heart a painter, Nelson Makamo became associated with the Artists’ Proof Studio (APS) in Newtown, Johannesburg, in order to gain a sense...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    September 2007
  • First published in Art South Africa Volume 6: Issue 02 Anthea Moys; Simon Gush PLAY WITH ME FOR ANTHEA MOYS MAKING ART IS A MEANS TO CAPTURE, DEMONSTRATE AND REMIND ALL WILLING SOULS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO SIMPLY PLAY, WRITES TEGAN BRISTOW.   Anthea Moys, 94.7 Cycle Challenge, 2007, still from performance staged in Johannesburg. Earlier this year, on a weekday evening in August, the Bag Factory...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    December 2007
  • Art South Africa Volume 6: Issue 03 Alhyrian Laue; Dead Revolutionaries Club; Doing it for Daddy; Lerato Shadi   HAUNTED CUPBOARDS ALHYRIAN LAUE’S SEXUALISED CONSTRUCTIONS, WHILE INVITING CLOSER INSPECTION, RARELY OFFER CLUES TO THEIR MEANING. BY TIM HOPWOOD. left - right Alhyrian Laue, Hypocaustic Grotto, Latrine Larder, An Evening of Social Tightrope Walking, all 2007, all found objects and mixed media. Photos Tim Hopwood. Alhyrian Laue’s astonishing and deeply...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    March 2008
  • Art South Africa Volume 7: Issue 01 Gabrielle Goliath; Hasan and Husain Essop; Reshma Chhiba; Rowan Smith WHODUNIT? SHE DID! 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, WRITES ANTHEA BUYS. top - bottom Bouquet III, (left panel), (middle panel), (right panel), 2007, archival print, 130 x 26cm. Gabrielle Goliath’s first significant...
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    September 2008
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