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  • https://youtu.be/HX1WS7tUV8U On Thursday, 20 June, the regional judges presided over the Sasol New Signatures feedback session at Sasol Place in Sandton. The judging panel had spent the morning looking at a large number of works and were excited about the notable pieces selected to go through to the exhibition in Pretoria. The foyer was packed with artists who had entered...
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    Sasol New Signatures Regional Judging
  • Sharing vulnerabilities is a means to help break down barriers between disparate groups of people SMITH presents 'Emphatic Whispers', a group exhibition that investigates the potential for art to make us more empathetic beings, and transform the way we relate to other people. Empathy extends beyond sympathy and compassion; it is the ability to relate to other humans on a...
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    Emphatic whispers in art
  • I am Zino Ari, Chief of the Kara People. 125 x 157 x 5.5cm. All images courtesy of the artist.
    Until recently, the people of the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia lived in harmony with the natural world. Increased development in the area has dramatically changed this. Robert Slingsby’s exhibition ‘In/Dependence’ seeks to trace their disappearing way of life at the hands of modernization Brendon Bell-Roberts: When did you first start working in the Omo River Valley and how did...
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    Robert Slingsby on his work with the Omo River Valley Tribes
  • Dak'Art has also announced the theme for their 2020 iteration The Biennale of Contemporary African Art, DAK'ART, will be held from May 28th to June 28th, 2020 in Dakar, under the high patronage of the President of the Republic of Senegal. This fourteenth edition, which marks the 30th anniversary of the Biennial of Contemporary African Art, will have the general...
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    Le Biennale De Dakar, Biennale for Contemporary African Art call for applicants
  • ©Bag Factory Artists' Studio
    ART AFRICA is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. David Koloane, known affectionately to many as Bra Da, at his home on 30 June 2019, age 81. We offer our sincere condolences to his wife Monica, his family, friends, and the many artists whose lives he touched with his generous spirit and unwavering dedication to sharing his knowledge,...
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    David Koloane (1938 - 2019)
  • School children engaging with works at Galle Winston Kofi Dawson retrospective, ‘Galle Winston Kofi Dawson: In Search of Something ‘Beautiful’… perhaps’ Photographer: Ibrahim Mahama. Courtesy SCCA-Tamale.
    The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) has opened its doors in Ghana The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, located in Tamale, Ghana, is an artist-run project space, exhibition and research hub, cultural repository and artists’ residency. It is an initiative of world-renowned Ghanaian artist, Ibrahim Mahama, as a contribution towards the development and expansion of the contemporary art scene...
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    Ibrahim Mahama, founder of the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, speaks about Creative Community
  • Somersault, Soweto, 1993. African National Congress and Communist Party supporters scatter as police fire teargas and live rounds outside the Soweto soccer stadium where the funeral of ANC and CP leader Chris Hani was attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners on 19 April.
    Regarding Democracy through Greg Marinovich’s photography In Susan Sontag’s seminal book, On Photography, Sontag writes that the “industrialisation of camera technology only carried out a promise inherent in photography from its very beginning: to democratise all experiences by translating them into images.” Since the dawn of photography and the development of the first cameras in the early 1840s, taking photographs...
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    Prolific South African photographer Greg Marinovich's The Dead Zone
  • Installation view of Ibrahim El-Salahi, Meditation Tree, 2018. Lime wood, 10,5 ft (left). Courtesy of Vigo Gallery. Jöel Andrianomearisoa, Les Horizons Complexes (de l’Amour et d’une Romance) I, 2018. Textiles, 190 x 130cm. Les Horizons Complexes (de l’Amour et d’une Romance) II, 2018. Textiles, 190 x 130cm. Courtesy of the artist and Sabrina Amrani Gallery.
    ‘Kubatana’ presented at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium in Norway, is gallerist and curator Kristin Hjellegjerde’s recent curatorial undertaking that presented a large scale exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary African art in Scandinavia. ART AFRICA caught up with Hjellegjerde to find out more about how this exhibition came about. “He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken...
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    The first large scale exhibition of African art in Scandinavia
  • Aida Muluneh, b. 1974, Ethiopia, Sai Mado (The Distant Gaze), 2016. Digital photograph. Museum purchase, 2016-16-2.
    Exhibition of Multimedia Works of Art by 28 Modernist and  Contemporary Artists From 10 African Countries Featuring works by 28 of Africa’s leading modern and contemporary artists, all of whom are women, this exhibition highlights the vital contributions of women to numerous issues, including the environment, identity, politics, race, sexuality, social activism, faith and more. Taking its name from the...
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    I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa
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  • 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...
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    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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