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FRIDAY
16 NOVEMBER 2012
BRIGHT
NEW STARS SBYA 2013 ANNOUNCED
Mary
Sibande is SBYA 2013: Visual Arts
Anthea
Moys is SBYA 2013: Performance Art
Mary Sibande:
Image from Mail & Guardian
Sibandes
critique of stereotypes leads to Standard Bank Young Artist Award:
(Supplied) The 2013
Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for Visual Arts, 30 year old
Mary Sibande, is celebrated for her practice in which she employs the
human form as a vehicle through painting and sculpture, to explore the
construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context. Johannesburg-based
artist, Sibande attempts to critique stereotypical depictions of (particularly
black) women in our society. Growing up, my grandmother used to
say I was very talented and creative. I guess that sparked confidence
in me, said Sibande about why she decided to pursue a creative
career. When I had to choose between Fine Art and Fashion, I chose
Fine Art because it is more open, and it explores more creativity.
More
here
2013
Standard Bank Young Artists To Help Define SAs Cultural Identity
: The eagerly awaited announcement of the winners for the 2013
Standard Bank Young Artist Awards took place at a function in
Johannesburg. The Standard Bank Young Artist Awards are presented
annually to young South African artists who are either on the
threshold of national acclaim or whose artistic excellence has
enabled them to make international breakthroughs. This year, an
award for Performance Art has been presented for the first time.
The winners of the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist Awards are:
Fana Tshabalala for Dance, Runette Botha for Music, Mary Sibande
for Visual Art, Prince Lamla for Drama, Shane Cooper for Jazz,
Anthea
Moys for Performance Art
A
great Johannesburg night for Strauss & Co
by Michael
Coulson: When most art auctions struggle to reach the low estimate,
it's a great achievement to go way beyond that and even beat
the top estimate, but that's what Strauss & Co did in Johannesburg
on Monday, even if only just and it took the buyer's premium
and Vat to do it, as hammer prices fell just short. Still, that's
how auctions are recorded. And this was in spite of the failure
of three top lots to sell: the cover lot, a Ruth Everard-Steenkamp
still life (estimate R800 000-R1.2m), Irma Stern's Four Figures
(est R1.5m-R2m) and an Alexis Preller abstract (est R600 000-R800
000). The sale was in fact made by amazing R4m+ prices for two
other Prellers. Grand Mapoggo III, estimated at R1.8m-R2.4m,
was bid up to R4.7m, and Girl with an Oriole (the inside back
cover) to R4.0m (est R800 000-R900 000).
Read more here
PRESTIGIOUS
ACADEMIC ART POSTS AVAILABLE AT RHODES SCHOOL OF ART
Rhodes
University Department of Fine Art is seeking to fill two senior
Art History and Visual Culture posts early in 2013. The posts
are at the level of Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer and
offer an opportunity to be part of a dynamic department and contribute
to the contemporary curriculum and a collective departmental research
profile.See
more here
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MAIL & GUARDIAN: Charlotte Higgins: Tate will
reflect its new international focus through a two-year
programme of activities focused on Africa, beginning
on November 24. Source
Skets
vir opera te koop
BEELD:
Johan Myburg: In 1998 het William Kentridge opdrag
van die Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in
Brussel ontvang vir die produksie van Mozart se opera
Die Zauberflöte. As The Magic Flute het die produksie
in 2005 sy première in Brussel gehad en later
onder meer na Napels, Tel Aviv, New York en Johannesburg
gereis. In 2005 is Kentridge se Preparing the Flute,
'n versameling tekeninge en 'n driedimensionele skaalvoorstelling
van die operaverhoog ter voorbereiding vir die opera
in die Goodman-galery in Johannesburg uitgestal. Source
Police
hunt for art thieves
EYE
WITNESS NEWS: Barry Bateman : PRETORIA - Police
are still hunting for three art thieves in possession
of a South African painting worth more than R7 million.
On Sunday, three men held up staff at Pretoria Art
Museum and made off with five valuable paintings.
Police on Tuesday managed to recover four of the
five pieces at a Dutch Reformed Church in Port Elizabeth
in the Eastern Cape, following a tip-off from an
informant. Source
South
African Art Theft: Four Stolen Paintings Found In
Cemetery Hundreds Of Miles Away
HUFFINGTON
POST: By Mallika Rao. Four paintings stolen by a trio
of brazen thieves out of a museum in the South African
capital of Johannesburg Sunday were found today in
a private cemetery hundreds of miles away, city spokesperson
Pieter De Necker told The Huffington Post in a phone
interview. The paintings, all works by South African
artists, were on display at the Pretoria Art Museum
Source
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The
Guardian's art critic Adrian Searle gave his opinion
of the film shortly after its release: he was impressed
by the accuracy of Jacobi's performance, if not by
the insertion of YBAs into the pub scenes Adrian
Searle: The painter Francis Bacon, who turned down
both the Order of Merit and the Companion of Honour,
is crouched over the bed in nothing but his underpants.
He waits. His lover, a Kray gang hanger-on called
George Dyer, stands over him, a cigarette in his mouth,
a belt twisted in his fist. Source
Royal
College of Art celebrates 175 years of cultivating
talent
THE
GUARDIAN (UK) : There is a certain irony in the Royal
College of Art naming its 175th birthday exhibition
after a Tracey Emin piece, given how utterly miserable
she was during her two years there - but then The
Perfect Place to Grow is a very good title. Royal
College of Art celebrates 175 years of cultivating
talent. The Perfect Place to Grow exhibition showcases
achievements of students and staff including Moore,
Hepworth, Dyson and Emin. Source
Perel
and Palette: Estate Late E.Z. Weigel & David Botha Family
Collection.
Strauss
& Co.'s Johannesburg Sale Bucks the (Recession) Trend
Last nights
Strauss & Co's auction realised in excess of R33 000 000. There
were many good surprises with good quality works by SA masters work
way exceeding their pre sale estimates. One in particular "Girl
with an Oriole" by Alexis Preller with a presale estimate of
R600 000 sold for just over R4 000 000, more than six times its
presale estimate.For more see: www.straussart.co.za
BUSINESS
ART
Brand
names slip as market starts to correct
THE
ART NEWSPAPER: After the party, the hangover: art
stars Koons, Hirst and Murakami lose their shine:
By Melanie Gerlis: Mirroring the mood of the market:
LaChapelle's Seismic Shift
David LaChapelle's Seismic Shift, 2012, says it
all: artists and collectors are reacting against
the carefree works that were popular during the
raging noughties. The large-scale LaChapelle photograph,
on sale at Paul Kasmin's stand at Frieze London
in October, shows a room of familiar works by Damien
Hirst, Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, among others,
rocked by the force of an imaginary earthquake.
The image, by an artist who has been no stranger
to the colourful, often flippant art that came to
the fore during the art market's recent boom, mirrors
the marked shift in taste that prevailed during
Frieze week. Source
$375.1
Million Art Sale Is Sotheby's Record
NY
TIMES: By CAROL VOGEL: "I have all the time
in the world," Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's principal
auctioneer, said on Tuesday night as he leaned over
the lectern and flashed a smile at Lisa Dennison,
the auction house's chairwoman. She was on the telephone,
trying to draw a higher bid from a client. Two tenacious
collectors were competing to take home "No.
1 (Royal Red and Blue)," a classic Mark Rothko
painting from 1954 that is also a conspicuous example
of what dealers like to call "wall power,"
and the bidding was already at $61 million.
Source
Gold
rush for 'Old Masters of the future'
THE
TELEGRAPH (UK): By Anita Singh: Contemporary art
sales break records at Christie's and Sotheby's
as the super-rich spend £500 million on "prudent
investments". When the super-rich go shopping,
it seems a Warhol or a Rothko now top the list of
must-haves. Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses
are celebrating an extraordinary week for contemporary
art sales in which buyers spent close to £500
million snapping up what one economist has dubbed
"the Old Masters of the future". Records
began tumbling in New York on Tuesday night, when
Sotheby's staged the biggest auction in its 268-year
history. Source
Beijing's
798 art district to get another makeover
THE ART NEWSPAPER: This time with a Rmb50bn art
centre that includes an aquatic theatre By Lisa
Movius:Published online: Years after it changed
from a scruffy underground hotbed of studios into
a trendy district for galleries, boutiques and offices,
Beijing's famed 798 art district now faces another
transformation: into an upscale luxury and cultural
area. "The Beijing government has thought about
improving 798's quality in terms of environment,
function and utility for a long time. Bungalows
in the art district now will be replaced by skyscrapers,"
project general manager Wang Jianjun says. "[It]
will be the biggest art centre in China with the
best service." Source
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