[01.02.09] Pieter Hugo, Conrad Botes at Michael Stevenson Contemporary
Despite her initial optimism, Linda Stupart is duly unimpressed with Pieter Hugo and Conrad Botes' dual solos at Michael Stevenson. Hugo, she argues, gives the audience the dark and exotic it so craves, while Botes has lost his edge. read on.
[01.02.09] William Kentridge at Goodman Gallery Cape and the SANG
'Wary of yet more William Kentridge, Katharine Jacobs approached his double header at Goodman Gallery Cape and the SANG with caution. What she found though was 'not the dumbed-down repetition of a household name capitalising on fame, but complex repetition'. Like the way in which he destroys and re-constructs images in many of the works, 'Kentridge appears, by means of simple repetition and returning to the same idea, to have reversed entropy, and become interesting again'.
[01.02.09] William Kentridge performance at the SANG
William Kentridge's lecture/performance I am not me, the horse is not mine at the SANG in December was a tour de force, writes Sue Williamson.
STUDENT REVIEWS
[01.02.09] Big Wednesday at Whatiftheworld / Gallery
Tim Gareth Leibbrandt reviews Big Wednesday at Whatiftheworld, a group show co-curated by Julia Rosa Clark and Daniel Levi, which affirms the gallery's success of the last year - Rowan Smith, Georgina Gratrix and Andrzej Nowicki - while promising more to come in the future: Robert Sloon, Liam Lynch and Ceri Muller.
[04.03.09] A selection from Sue Williamson's A Few South Africans at the Durban Art Gallery
Peter Machen reflects on the subjects of and times during which Sue Williamson's A Few South Africans was produced, comparing it with post-liberation South Africa. The exhibiton of these works now, he concludes, reveals a yawning chasm between the pre- and post-liberation ANC.
