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THIS WEEK'S NEWS
Stern’s “Arab” sold for over R17 million
A 1939 painting by Irma stern entitled “Arab” sold at a Strauss & Co auction in Johannesburg on Monday 11 June for over R17 million. The reserve price for the painting was estimated at R7-9 million, and the final hammer price was R17, 267 000. The piece was sold to a South African collector, and is the second-highest price ever fetched for a Stern painting sold to a local buyer. Read More…
Richard Long and Willem Boshoff at SMAC Gallery
Internationally acclaimed British land and conceptual artist, Richard Long, is showing together with South African artist Willem Boshoff at Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary (SMAC) Gallery’s Stellenbosch space, in a two-person exhibition that opens tomorrow night. Read more…
William Kentridge to Mentor Mateo Lopéz for Rolex Award
William Kentridge will mentor Columbian artist Mateo López as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative for 2012-2013, the luxury timepiece brand announced this week. Every two years, Rolex invites masters in art, dance, film, literature, music, and theatre to provide individual guidance to younger artists selected by an anonymous panel of distinguished international arts professionals. Kentridge was selected as the visual arts mentor for the sixth cycle of the Mentor-Protégé program, which runs from 2012 to 2013. After a rigorous preliminary selection process, Kentridge chose Lopéz as his protégé. In the programme’s previous cycle, Nicholas Hlobo was selected as the protégé of British sculptor Anish Kapoor. Read more… Review
Katherine Spindler’s Wave on the Masters Grad Show 2012 Jessa Mockridge “Hello. I’m in here.”
“Just finished sorting out my video piece.”
“Oh cool. Sjoe, I’m like terrified by this work.”
“What? This net? Why?”
“Look at those shadows! They are all looming and gnarled and grasping. It looks like they are moving towards you.”
“Oh, yeah, I guess. Seeing it out of context.”
“I get the old four-poster bed with tattered mosquito net vibe. The rhythm of the metronome reminds me of breathing. It’s pretty nightmarish.”
“The rhythm does make you feel uneasy. Ha! I’m going to tell Katherine that she is giving people nightmares.”
“Oh, is Katherine the artist?”
“Yes. Katherine Spindler. Her work is actually all nautically themed. So that motion is supposed to be the sea and these are like fishing nets.”
“Oh, yes that makes sense.”
“Just shows how weird these exhibitions are, taking fragments of exhibitions to make a new exhibition.” Op-Ed: South Africans, You’re Okay Anthea Buys It
has been a strange six weeks for art in South Africa. While “The Spear
Saga” preoccupied the South African media to the exclusion of so much
other news, and turned our collective gaze inward, the rest of the world
ticked on. Now that we are pretty much over it, the rest of the world
thinks it’s newsworthy. In the last ten days, news websites all over the
United States, Asia and Europe commented, with some scorn, on what
looked to them like an overblown fuss over a mediocre picture. This
second wave of attention is in part owing to the presence of the Goodman
Gallery’s presence at Art Basel, this week. Art Basel, in Basel,
Switzerland, is one of the busiest international Art Fairs, and its
catalogue reads as a who’s who of the global contemporary art market. Read more... |
EXHIBITIONS
SASOL Art Museum at Stellenbosch University Don't miss American artist Lauren Kalman's "Spectacular", an exhibition of photography and wearable sculpture that explores the spectactle of images of the body - particularly the female body - in the media. Kalman's work recreates well-known physical deformities and diseases, including elephantitus, acne, scarring, herpes and cancer, as jewelled fabric masses and instruments.
SOUTH AFRICAN ART IN THE WORLD THIS WEEK
Guy Tillim and Nicholas Hlobo in La Triennale: Intense Proximity. 20 April - 20 August 2012. Hasan and Husein Essop at Rencontres d’Arles The Essop brothers have been nominated for the prestigious Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award, which recognises talent in emerging photographers. Their work will be on exhibition at the festival between 2 July and 23 September 2012.
Albert Adams in Incarceration and The Burden @ The University of Salford, Manchester. Ends 29 June and 3 June 2012.
Steven Cohen performing Title Withheld (For Legal and Ethical Reasons), 11 - 16 July, and The Cradle of Humankind from 22 - 25 July 2012 in Festival d'Avignon
Pieter Hugo in This Must be the Place: Selected Works: 2002-2011 at Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. Ends 2 September 2012.
Penny Siopis in Prism: Drawing from 1990 - 2011 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. Ends 5 August 2012.
BOOKS RECEIVED
Patricia Emison New York: Phaidon
2011
ISBN 978-0-7148-6255-2
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GAUTENG
May/June. JHB
6 June - 4 July 2012. JHB 17 May - 16 June 2012. JHB 17 May - 16 June 2012. JHB 10 May - 16 June 2012. JHB
Fine Art Auctioneers/Consultants; jhb@straussart.co.za. JHB
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WESTERN CAPE
24 May - 30 June 2012. CPT
Hout Street Gallery
Founded in 1975, The Hout Street Gallery in Paarl specialises in South African paintings and fine art. CPT 14 June - 2 September 2012. STELLENBOSCH Appraiser and auction house; jhb@stephanwelzandco.co.za. CPT.
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