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Lorraine Loots. 'Wanderlust'.
Watercolour on Canson Montval From Salon91 Show entitled: 'Collections
and Archives' - Is a group painting exhibition by eight emerging South
African artists working in unique & contemporary ways with the age-old
medium. In this exhibition the artists explore the concepts of Collections
& Archives. To view more work see: Salon91
here
Erik
Laubscher Art Icon, 86, dies
Fiona Chisholm Cape
Times: Erik Laubscher, the paint salesman who became the first living
artist to fetch R 1M for a painting at a local auction, died in his sleep
at Kronendal in Hout Bay yesterday morning. Aged 86, he'd been in ailing
health for some time. Laubscher was a man of bold views and colours, a
born teacher and a 'hands-on' personality. He sold paints for 15 years
to keep his family going and led from the front in the conversion of a
dilapidated Woodstock outbuilding into the Ruth Prowse Art Centre and
its founder/ director for 25 years. In 2009 his oil painting 'Still life
with mandolin, music score and fruit fetched R 1.2 M at an auction in
Cape Town.
During his illustrious career spanning 60 years, he represented South
Africa at the Sao Paulo and Venice Biennale and was included in major
museums, university and public collections.
"Laubscher's contribution lies not only in his creative paintings,
but in every field connected with art, like activism, at which he was
always in the forefront, and in art teaching". Said Dr Hans Fransen,
author of Erik Laubscher: A Life in Art" published in 2009 by SMAC
Art Galleryto coincide with Lauschers retrospective exhibition.
"Most of his life he was an abstract painter, particularly of landscapes.
He was perhaps the one who most pertinently adapted abstract art to the
South African scene". Read
more here
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Days left to get your portrait done - could win you R 100K
Sanlam
Private Investments, in collaboration with Rust-en-Vrede
Art Gallery, Durbanville, has initiated South Africa's first
National Portrait Award. A significant single prize of R100,000
will be awarded for the best portrait. In addition to the
prize, the winning portrait along with a selection of approximately
40 entrant works will be exhibited at the Rust-en-Vrede
Gallery, after which the exhibition will tour to venues
around South Africa in collaboration with the Sanlam Art
Collection and VISI magazine. Artists are challenged to
enter works which exemplify their ability in the medium
of their choice, excl.uding lens-based media . More
here
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Handelsaspekte
van kuns bekyk
Creative
Currencies: Accessing Opportunities in an Expanding Marketplace
is die tema vir vanjaar se kunstekonferensie wat in Augustus
deur die Arts and Culture Trust (ACT) in Johannesburg aangebied
word.Die konferensie word van 6 tot 8 Augustus in die UJ-kunstesentrum
op die Kingsway-kampus van die Universiteit van Johannesburg
aangebied.Die konferensie sal fokus op die kommersiële
en handelsaspekte van kulturele en kunste-aktiwiteite in
Suid-Afrika en elders. Vanjaar se konferensie het reeds
die deelname en ondersteuning van verskeie praktisyns in
.Source
SA
art back in global showcase
By Theresa
Smith. Native Work by Andrew Putter. Nokilunga Memeza and
Endinalo Memeza as A Native Mother and Child, 2012.South
Africa returns to the contemporary art exhibition, the Venice
Biennale, with something of a reintroduction this year,
with 17 artists, a long-term commitment from government
and an actual curatorial vision, writes Theresa Smith OSTRACISED
for decades because of apartheid, we made a return to the
Venice Biennale in 1993, but our presence has been spotty
and fraught with controversy around choices and intent.
Minister of . Source
FROM
THE INTERNATIONAL ART MEDIA
When
art fought the Cold War A touring exhibition recreates the
CIAs 1946 secret weapon that scandalised conservatives
By Lauren
Ross. In the 1990s, a long held suspicion was confirmed:
the US Central Intelligence Agency secretly sent Abstract
Expressionism and other forms of American art and music
abroad in the 1950s and 1960s as part of a propaganda campaign
to assert American cultural dominance in the Cold War era.
The first chief of the CIA division spearheading that campaign
stated why the operation had to be clandestine: It
was very difficult to get Source
From
Mona Lisa to Stradivarius's violin; listing world famous art
heists
From
armed robbery, to Mission Impossible -style tactics, thieves
have taken much trouble to steal renowned artworks. Nearly
a hundred years ago, the Mona Lisa was stolen and while
it was recovered two years later, there are a number of
stolen masterpieces that remain untraceable. Take a look
at the art crimes that have the FBI and international police
forces Source
Ai
Weiwei uses music to mock state power in China
A new
music video released by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei mocks state
power.Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he
eats, sleeps, paces, showers and even sits on the
toilet in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled,
metaphor-rich music video mocking state power. The video
accompanying the visual artist's single Dumbass released
Wednesday but blocked online in mainland China is
meant to reconstruct his 81-day detention in 2011, which
was part of an overall crackdown on dissent. Source
BUSINESS
ART
Bonhams
face competition from Artnet Auctions
Artnet
Auctions will hold an African art sale this week to coincide
with Bonhams', says Colin Gleadell. Bonhams, which launched
its contemporary African art sales in 2009, has been the
only international auction house to hold specialised sales
since then, but now has a rival online, namely Artnet
Auctions, which stages a specialised sale this week to
coincide with Bonhams sale on Wednesday. The Bonhams
sale is estimated at £500,000 to £800,000.
Artnets sale is much smaller, but valued at £378,000
to £618,000. Less traditional in content, it includes
Source
Paddle8
moves to buy stake in Artnet
The
online auction house is looking to take over a 3% stake,
currently controlled by Redline Capital Management, the
company that tried to take over Artnet last year. By Charlotte
Burns. The online auction house, Paddle8, is acquiring
an option to purchase a stake in Artnet, the online auction
data provider and auctioneer. The stake, approximately
3%, currently belongs to Redline Capital Management, which
attempted a takeover of Artnet last summer.Meanwhile,
Redline has acquired a stake of around 5% in Paddle8.
Source
Art
fair experts share why hotels make good gallery spaces
Enid
Tsui. Hotel art fairs are the antithesis of the "white
cube" concept for a gallery space, and some consider
it decidedly unfashionable. But proponents see it as a
convenient and cost-efficient model.Organisers of the
Asia Contemporary Art Show, the Hong Kong Contemporary
(HKC) Art Fair and Bank Art Fair all cite the advantage
of having the same room used as exhibition space and accommodation
for visiting gallery owners and artists."It can almost
halve the cost for our overseas visitors," says Roger
Lim of HKC.Finding the right hotel isn't easy, with some
managers opposed to hosting art fairs on their properties.
Source
By Michael Coulson:
SA Art Times. Though most of the high estimate lots sold near the lower
end of their range, solid prices overall and a good sell-through rate
combined to generate an excellent return at Strauss & Co's Joburg
auction this week. This restored the trend of this year's sales grossing
more than the equivalent in 2012, with a big increase in auction room
turnover so far this year. And again the preference for quality was
manifest: in the afternoon session, a respectable 146 of the 199 lots
sold (73.4%), for a gross of just over R6.7m (low estimate just under
R5.7m), But the rate in the evening was even better: 92 of 114 lots
(80.7%), for R40.0m (low estimate R34.0m), making a total of 238 of
313 lots (76.0%) for R46.7m (low estimate R39.7m). The total from Strauss's
first Joburg sale last year was R38.0m. Almost halfway through the year,
this brings the gross for the first five auctions to R164.3m, against
R119.5m at this stage of 2012. Strauss's market share has eased slightly
to 52.0% (53.9%) and Stephan Welz & Co's to 9.4% (10.6%), while
Bonhams has gained ground, to 38.7% (35.4%). The overall gain in turnover
is over 37%, confirming that art is still gaining ground as an investment
medium. Read
more here
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When: Sunday
26th May 2013
Where: 404
Jan Smuts Ave., Craighall Park, Johannesburg
Tel : 011 781 2040
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