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THIS WEEK'S NEWS
South African painter Stanley Pinker dies at 87
South African painter Stanley Pinker has died in Cape Town at the age of 87. Pinker, who had been ailing for some years, was recently in surgery, and failed to recover his health after the operation. Read More…
Picasso Vandal Caught on Camera
These days, any vandal worth his spray paint has his own video channel on YouTube. Or so one would think, given the recent flourish of internet video footage of art vandals casually defacing paintings in art galleries and museums. Following last month’s astonishing e-TV footage of two men painting over Brett Murray’s “The Spear” in the Goodman Gallery, a cell-phone video has been released on YouTube showing a man defacing Pablo Picasso’s 1929 painting “Woman in a Red Armchair”. Read more…
Wanted: Genius Intern
Art South Africa is looking for its next Genius Intern. Following the departure of our previous Genius Intern to London to pursue graduate studies, we are one man or woman down in our small team of hardworking writers, designers, editors and publishers. Could you be the missing link? We are looking for someone who is passionate about art and is hoping to start a career in the art world. You will assist our editors and publishers with tasks like managing content on Art South Africa’s website, utilising social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter on behalf of Art South Africa, helping us manage our sprawling databases attending exhibition openings and taking snaps of all the socialites, and, hopefully, writing some copy for us. Read more… Op-Ed: dOCUMENTA 13 Highlight: Brad Pitt Anthea Buys After failing to make head or tail of the exhibition and events programme at dOCUMENTA (13), the art world has resorted to a much easier approach to image mediation: looking at pictures of Brad Pitt. A paparazzi picture of Pitt looking lean and at ease has been doing the rounds on Facebook (if you’re in the right circles) and various art blogs. For those circulating it, the excuse is that Brad Pitt spent something like $55 000 on a private jet to Kassel in order to visit the mega exhibition on his day off from shooting his new film, World War Z. Would we ever admit to caring genuinely about such inanities? No. Is it unusual for Pitt to spend such inordinate amounts of money on transportation? No. I mean, can you imagine the poor guy at an airport for regular people? He would be crushed to death by people from the East Rand before making it to the check-in counter. Read more... Review
Picture this scene Clare Butcher A
strange evening hue hangs about, deepening the already intense green
that could only be in a park in some mid-western part of Europe. An
electronica beat pumps through the otherwise static air. A storm is
brewing above the clouds emanating from a machine that bursts puffs of
sweet smelling smoke in the same direction as the music. Underscoring
both, a lumpy carpet of ice cubes lines the muddy grass, dotted with
empty champagne bottles and artsy scavengers hoping to discover the last
unopened one. These figures, in their
standard-black-plus-ironic-footwear, scratch around in the ice, somewhat
sheepishly at first, only to become more determined in their attempted
excavation. A neoclassical sculpture partially blocks my view of this
unusual dance-cum-booklaunch, which could so easily be read/misread as a
performance. Anything goes at dOCUMENTA right? Read more... |
EXHIBITIONS
PRINTING THE SEVENTIES: Battiss, Burwitz, Skotnes and More at Gallery AOP in Johannesburg. This group exhibition is curated around the relationship that writer, critic and academic Stephen Gray had with several "avant-garde" South African artists in the 1960s and 1970s. These include Walter Battis, Cecil Skotnes and Nils Burwitz, most notably, and many of the works on this exhibition come from Gray's personal collection. This is a chance to see several rare works on paper by these important historical figures.
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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May/June. JHB
6 June - 4 July 2012. JHB 23 July - 25 August 2012. JHB 21 June - 28 July 2012. JHB 19 July - 18 August 2012. JHB
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