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  • UNDERLINE – an innovative curatorial platform and exhibition – was hosted at the Museum of African Design (MOAD) in Johannesburg, South Africa, from the 12th until the 15th of September In their own words, “The 2019 UNDERLINE show offered a platform to a remarkable group of independent voices from South Africa and beyond”, this is not only a true statement...
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    UNDERLINE – a new exhibition platform for independent curators
  • The inaugural edition of LATITUDES Art Fair took place at Nelson Mandela Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, from the 12th until the 15th of September – just four months after its conception. LATITUDES – a niche-focused art fair that seeks to expand and strengthen local art audiences and promote African art – is the first African art fair that is 100%...
    ART FAIR, FEATURE
    A new fair for African art in international times
  • The winner will exhibit in the Access Bank ART X Prize section in November Etinosa Yvonne (middle) the winner of the Access Bank ART X Prize 2019. Courtesy of ART X Lagos. The Access Bank ART X Prize, a platform designed to support emerging artists in Nigeria, has reached its final stage for the 2019 edition. Following a rigorous screening process...
    FEATURE
    The Access Bank ART X Prize Winner Announced!
  • BWX11D Braille Fossil trail Guide Information Board Blind Blindness Karoo National Park South Africa Africa sign signs signpost
    The Social Impact Arts Prize is a new art prize with a focus on the social impact that has a direct, measurable effect on individuals and communities, as a result of an arts-based activity, project or programme. The awarded entry or entries will be transformed into reality through an ongoing Arts Residency in the town of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa,...
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    Calling Creatives for the Social Impact Arts Prize 2020
  • Every September, art enthusiasts are treated to a celebration of sculpture at SculptX Fair in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg. The third instalment of this popular initiative runs until 29 September 2019 and includes over 290 sculptures by more than 90 established and emerging sculptors. The works are exhibited in different indoor and outdoor venues throughout the Melrose Arch precinct including The Melrose...
    FEATURE
    The Largest Annual Sculpture Fair in South Africa
  • Charles Okereke, Homeward, Mali, 2010.
    Rencontres de Bamako 12th edition will mark 25 years since its inauguration in 1994 and the exhibition’s continued success and commitment in supporting emerging to established contemporary photographers and image-makers in Africa Honestly, Sisters, there is some elation here ... and some bitterness too. But if you want to find out how equal even the more equal 1/2 of us are, come see us at any public library –...
    FEATURE
    Streams Of Consciousness: A Concatenation Of Dividuals
  • A performance reflecting the style danced in Johannesburg’s hostels by migrant workers from KwaZulu Natal. © Patrick de Mervelec
    Osiyeza / The Crossing What is the role of the artist? What is the purpose of art? These are profound questions to be sure, but critical if we are to have any real hope of profoundly understanding and framing the legacy of Johnny Clegg, the iconic South African musician who died in July 2019. If Nelson Mandela was the father...
    FEATURE
    Remembering the life of Johnny Clegg
  • Installation shot of ‘Leeto: Sam Nhlengethwa’s Print in Retrospective’. All images courtesy of Wits Art Museum.
    ‘Leeto: A Sam Nhlengethwa print retrospective’ at Wits Art Museum ‘Leeto: Sam Nhlengethwa’s Print Retrospective’ surveys the printmaking practice of Nhlengethwa from 1978 to 2018. Leeto is Setswana/Sesotho for ‘journey’ and, as the word suggests, the exhibition calls for a momentary pause to reflect on Nhlengethwa’s ongoing artistic footsteps. Nhlengethwa began his career in 1976 during that tumultuous socio-political era...
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    Jazz is my oxygen
  • Detail of Sam Nhlengethwa, Then take the first solo, 2012. Seven colour lithograph, 50 x 30cm. Edition size: 35.
    Jazz, Opera, Mbaqanga, Afro-pop, spinning vinyls and sonic installations feature heavily in this issue. Exploring how the ‘sonic’ breathes life into the creative process, and supplements the output of our diverse range of artists, musicians and curators featured in these pages, has been quite enlightening. The artworld may often be imagined primarily as a geographical mapping of spaces...
    FEATURE
    THE SONIC IS MY OXYGEN: Editorial
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COLLECTOR. magazine

  • Dylan Lewis, Male trans-figure I maquette, 2009. Bronze sculpture, 60.5 x 77.5 x 24.1cm. Courtesy of the artist & Christie's.
    Christie’s will present  'Shapeshifting' – a sale comprising sixty outstanding animal and figurative bronze sculptures by the renowned South African sculptor, Dylan Lewis in London Dylan Lewis working on a clay prototype. Image courtesy of Kent Andreasen. Over the past decade, Dylan Lewis has been creating a unique seven-hectare sculpture garden in South Africa located in the foothills of the Stellenbosch...
    COLLECTOR, SCULPTURE
    Dylan Lewis: Shapeshifting
  • Hamed Abdalla, Untitled, Mid 1960’s. Oil on canvas, 72 x 53cm.
    Ubuntu Art Gallery seeks to extend the narrative of Egyptian art Since opening its doors in October 2014, Ubuntu Art Gallery has specialised in contemporary Egyptian artworks and secondary market Modern Egyptian art, carving a space for Egyptian art in the Middle Eastern North African (MENA) art market. Sayed Abdelrasoul, Untitled, 1968. Oil on canvas, 40 x 60cm. All images courtesy...
    COLLECTOR
    From the archives and beyond
  • 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...
    COLLECTOR
    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...
    COLLECTOR
    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...
    COLLECTOR
    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...
    COLLECTOR
    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,...
    COLLECTOR
    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...
    COLLECTOR
    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...
    COLLECTOR
    Living Between Spirituality and Reality
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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....
    BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, BYT, BYT ARCHIVE
    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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