CAPE
Running concurrently with the Lang/Baumann, at the Bell-Roberts, is Stan Engelbrecht's 'Infinity' video installation. Mark Coetzee returns to Cape Town from Miami for another solo outing at the AVA, titled 'All Our Sons II'. 'Lexicons and Labyrinths', at the SA Museum, is a show curated by artist Fritha Langerman. Lucia Burger is chief curator of this year's KKNK. Featured festival artist is Wim Botha. Other artists attending include Antoinette Murdoch and Doreen Southwood. 'Clean' and 'Grime', each seen separately in Johannesburg and Cape Town respectively, will be shown together for the first time.
GAUTENG
'Teken', a show of drawings by 15 contemporary artists, curated by well-known sculptor Claudette Schreuders, comes highly recommended. 'Coats and Coverings' is Fiona Kirkwood's tenth solo exhibition; 'Departure', at PhotoZA, is an exhibition of photographs taken by Guy Tillim; and a selection of photographs, paintings and collaborative works by Dale Yudelman and Arlene Amaler-Raviv opens at David Krut Fine Art.
KWAZULU-NATAL
The NSA is staging three exhibitions: 'A Forest of Columns', an exhibition of mosaic sculptures by Jane du Rand; screen prints by Maurice Kahn; and 'Geometric Modern', an exhibition of Art Deco. 'Rorke's Drift: Empowering Prints 1962-1982', at the DAG, is a timely look at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke's Drift and its influence on the training for black artists in South Africa.
INTERNATIONAL
The David Goldblatt retrospective, 'Fifty-One Years', gets its only UK showing at Modern Art Oxford; 'Diorama' is Candice Breitz's first solo show in London; 'My Robben Island' is a series of charcoal sketches of Robben Island done by ex-president and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela; and the work of Cape Town photographer Tracey Derrick is on view in Brazil, part of the fourth 'African Photography Encounters'.
