[09.12.05] Sanell Aggenbach at Bell-Roberts
With 'Fool's Gold' Cape Town-based Sanell Aggenbach departs some way from her last body of work, but continues her exploration of cultural identity and inheritance. Tavish McIntosh reviews.
[09.12.05] Welcome to the Periphery: Three New Gallery Spaces
Linda Stupart reviews three new small exhibition spaces, The Bin, what if the world ... and blank projects.
[09.12.05] William Kentridge at 34Long
Linda Stupart reviews 'From Private Selections', a Kentridge show featuring work from several private collections. The exhibition, she concludes, cannot but demonstrate Kentridge's diversity and agility despite its focus on attracting collectors.
[09.12.05] Sonja Britz at Gordart
Sonja Britz's latest solo outing at Gordart found the artist investigating society's positioning of the human being as superior, elevated and unique in relation to animals. Melissa Mboweni explores this in the context of contemporary South Africa.
[09.12.05] Penny Siopis at the Goodman Gallery
Penny Siopis latest show 'Panics and Passions' finds the artist once more on the knife-edge of the formal beauty of her creations and their abhorrent content. This, Michael Smith's show of the year, find's the artist at the forefront of painting's resurgence.
[09.12.05] Wim Botha at the Durban Art Gallery
Wim Botha's 'A Premonition of War' finds the Standard Bank Young Artist for 2005 hanging his work alongside selections from the Durban Art Gallery's permanent collection. Francesca Verga examines his affront to authority.
[09.12.05] Roger Ballen at the Durban Art Gallery
Long after visitng Roger Ballen's 'Shadow Chambers' Francesca Verga finds herself experiencing the true impact of these controversial images. The discomfort induced by Ballen's images, she concludes, is unavoidable.
[09.12.05] Marina Abramovic at Performa05
Nathaniel Stern attended Performa '05, 'The First Biennial of New Visual Art Performance' in New York. Here he took in Marina Abramovic's re-enactment of six seminal performance works from the 60's and 70's as well the début of her new work.
