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Interview with Ian Grose

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Matthew Blackman: The tile ‘New Pictures’ seemed to me to have some resonance with Zander Blom’s recent shows ‘Paintings. Drawings. Photos’and ‘New Paintings’. Was this conscious? Ian Grose: If anything, I was uncomfortably aware...

Interview with Robin Rhode

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The central piece at Robin Rhode’s ‘Paries Pictus’ at Stevenson was a series of geometric forms taped in black on the white walls, and coloured in by children with outsized oil crayons. The idea of drawing and interacting...

From Marikana Hill to Constitutional Hill

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Athi Joja's feature engages with the exhibition 'Marikana Hill to Constitution Hill' by Professor Pitika Ntuli that reflected on 'the violation of the democratic values of engagement and debate symbolised by the Marikana massacres' ...

Re-Erecting 'The Spear' - or not?

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Some years ago, when I was taking an English conversation class of mixed-level South Americans, I was asked a question: ‘What is the word for these things inside of here?’ Just from the person’s gesticulations I thought perhaps the...

Robert Hodgins A Lasting Impression The Robert Hodgins Print Archive

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That, towards the end of his life, Robert Hodgins became one of SA’s very few living blue chip investments, would, I imagine, have been a source of great amusement to the artist. I didn’t know Hodgins, and anyway I’m caut...

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'POV Female Johannesburg: Five female photographers / Five books'
Lisa King, Tracy Edser, Alexia Webster, Nadine Hutton and Nontsikelelo Veleko
Edition

Fourthwall Books launches 'POV Female Johannesburg', the latest offering from the London based designer and curator Damien Poulain, founder of oodee.POV Female Johannesburg presents the work of Nadine Hutton, Tracy Edser, Alexia Webster, N...
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'WAM Auction 2013'
Various Artists
Wits Art Museum

It is almost a year since the Wits Art Museum (WAM) in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, opened its doors to the public. On the 30th May this year, Wits Art Museum will host a prestigious auction of South African contemporary art to launch the M...
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'Isivumelwano: An Agreement'
Sabelo Mlangeni
Goethe Institut

Shown for the first time in Johannesburg, Sabelo Mlangeni’s photographic exhibition 'Isivumelwano: An Agreement' comprises a series of photographs shot at various Southern African wedding ceremonies.The project began with the documen...
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'A Retrospective of Exhibitions I never had'
Gordon Froud
NiROX PROJECTS at Arts on Main

Gordon Froud is well-known for his modular sculptures of viruses, taxis, animals and other objects. Froud has consistently shown on more than 20 shows a year often working in a variety of forms and mediums suited to the theme or guid...
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'All our Mothers'
Sue Williamson
Goodman Gallery

'All Our Mothers', Sue Williamson’s new show at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, celebrates the strength of the extraordinary women who helped to bring this country to freedom, and examines the generation gap between these wise, iconic...
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'Unlearning'
Pamela Dlungwana, Francis Burger and Georgia Munnik
Goethe On Main

Unlearning is an exhibition and project about losing knowledge, whether through erasure, amnesia, overwriting, disguising, reducing, ridiculing, hiding, covering, mimicking or undermining.Performed on-site at Goethe on Main as a growing in...
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'In season Five everyone Dies'
Wilhelm Saayman
Erdmann Contemporary

In season five the whole cast, lured by the promise of incredible riches, boarded a plane and set off for an island where a madman hid his treasure centuries ago. The aircraft crashed, and the surviving passengers ended up eating one anoth...
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