Willem Boshoff

Current Review(s)

SWAT

Willem Boshoff at Goodman Gallery

In many ways the work of a critic is easy, we risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read.

But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.

But there are times when the critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defence of the ‘new’. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends.

-    Anton Ego

18 August 2011 - 24 September 2011

Listings(s)

Penelope and the Cosmos

Karel Nel and Willem Boshoff at Circa on Jellicoe

This is the inaugaral exhibition at Circa on Jellicoe, the Everard-Read Gallery's answer to a project room, and features large painterly panels by Karel Nel and monoliths and text assemblages by Willem Boshoff.

On Wednesday November 25 from 4pm to 5pm Dr Jean-Pierre de la Porte, the author of the first book-length study of Nel, will give a walkabout of Nel's work.

 

10 November 2009 - 12 December 2009

'SWAT'

Willem Boshoff at Goodman Gallery

By far South Africa's most consistently interesting conceptual artist, Willem Boshoff returns to the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg with a show of work under the title 'SWAT'. Taking swipes at capitalism, religious text, exploitation, globalisation and imperialism, Boshoff amps up the social critique and comes out blasting from both barrels. Included is a work that incorporates human hair into handmade paper: hippy purists, you have been warned.

18 August 2011 - 24 September 2011

'Ampersand' - A Dialogue of Contemporary Art from South Africa and the Daimler Art Collection

Athi Patra-Ruga, Dineo Bopape, Lerato Shadi, Willem Boshoff, Zander Blom and Michael MacGarry at Daimler Contemporary

In the year of the Soccer World Cup in our country, the Daimler Art Collection aims to continue its lengthy history of addressing and promoting South Africa’s cultural development with an international contemporary art exhibition in Berlin. This presentation is arranged in dialogue form, juxtaposing current performative, conceptual and abstract tendencies in contemporary South African art with selected works from the Daimler Art Collection. At this event in Berlin, the Daimler Art Collection (which concentrates on abstract, avant-garde movements and reduced conceptual tendencies from Bauhaus to current contemporary art) presents mainly new acquisitions in the field of international contemporary art for the first time.

The presentation of the ‘Ampersand’ exhibition includes site-specific installations and video art as well as paintings, drawings and photography. About 60 works are shown. While the
exhibition does feature selected predecessors, its main thrust is directed at current works from recent years by younger artists (most of whom are between 30 and 40 years old). Works by fourteen international artists from the Daimler Art Collection are shown in a dialogue with sixteen South African artists.

Artists on show include Zander Blom, Dineo Bopape, Willem Boshoff, Kay Hassan, Nicholas Hlobo, Abrie Fourie, Lawrence Lemaoana, Michael MacGarry, Nandipha Mntambo, Athi-Patra Ruga, Lerato Shadie, Rowan Smith, Nontsikelelo Veleko, Mikhael Subotzky, Sue Williamson and James Webb.

10 June 2010 - 10 October 2010