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FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN ART MEDIA

Angola skitter op biënnale

Johan Myburg: Johannesburg:– Sedert Angola verlede week aangewys is as die wenner van die Goue Leeu vir die beste paviljoen op die 55ste Venesiese Biënnale, staan mense daagliks tou om dié land se nasionale uitstalling te beskou.
Dit is vanjaar die eerste keer dat Angola aan die biënnale deelneem. Of almal dié uitstalling gaan kan sien, is ’n ander saak, berig die BBC. Die hoofwerk in dié uitstalling bestaan uit 23 stapels plakkate van foto’s deur Edson Chagas – foto’s wat hy van alledaagse goed in Luanda geneem het.More

Landkunstenaars trek vanjaar saam op Plettenbergbaai

KAAPSTAD. – ’n Tweede internasionale landkunstentoonstelling op eie bodem, word vanjaar in Augustus gehou.Dit heet Site_Specific en sal soos in 2011 by Plettenbergbaai aangebied word. Dit sal van 10 tot 17 Augustus daar plaasvind.Die biënnale is die hoofprojek van Site_Specific Land Art Events, ’n organisasie sonder winsbejag, wat met verskeie projekte landkuns in Afrika bevorder. Site_Specific is die konsep van die plaaslike landkunstenaars Strijdom van der Merwe en Anni Snyman. Kunstenaars van reg oor Suid-Afrika neem hieraan More

40 stal in Parys uit: Fotograwe wys elke kant van Jhb

My Joburg, ’n uitstalling van werk deur Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars “wat tot ’n groot mate nog nie die aandag van die Franse publiek getrek het nie”, word van 20 Junie tot 22 September in Parys, Frankryk, gehou.Dié uitstalling is deel van die Frans-Suid-Afrikaanse seisoen wat tot Desember in verskeie Franse stede duur.Die uitstalling in Maison Rouge in die hartjie van Parys is deel van dié galery se program om kuns uit wêreldstede wat nié hoofstede is nie, te vertoon.Die vorige uitstalling was dié van kunstenaars van Winnipeg in Kanada. Volgens die galery se webwerf stel Maison Rouge, . More

SPI Portrait Award

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69 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 More here

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FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ART MEDIA

Berlin Wall art fetches 730 000 euros at auction

AFP Relaxnews. A single anonymous buyer this week snapped up 48 sections of the Berlin Wall bearing works by international artists for 730 000 euros at auction in Paris, the auction house Pierre Berge & Associes announced. The fragments weighing several dozen kilos each are critiques of the divided Germany or celebrate the tearing down of the wall starting in 1989. One work by French conceptual artist Daniel Buren, "Etching and Oil on Concrete", was valued at between 60 000 and 90 000 euros ($120 000). More

Bus shelters to become works of art

Artists can submit concepts for panels and seating
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Some bus shelters in Providence are going to be turned into public artworks of sorts under a new city initiative. The Department of Art, Culture and Tourism and the Department of Planning and Development are asking artists to submit concepts for art panels and seating for bus shelters along two bus routes. Seventeen sites along Broad Street and North Main Street will get the installations. More

Eric Fischl: From Bad Boy to Good Man

If you had a foot in the art world in the 1980s you know who Eric Fischl is. Just in case you didn't, take a brief look at "Bad Boy," the canvas Fischl describes as his "most famous and notorious painting. More

BUSINESS ART

10 Billionaires Who Spend A Ton Of Money On Art

#10 Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr. owns $700 million worth of art
The 85-year-old "Si" Newhouse is the chairman and CEO of Advance Publications, which owns Condé Nast.
He was the original owner of Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948," which was later sold to David Geffen More

Guidelines for investing in SA art

JOHANNESBURG - There is no formula for how one can successfully invest in art, but there are guidelines and precautions one can take to minimise the risk. The Mei Moses World Art Index, which looks at the resale values of painting, has over the last fifty years outperformed US and international equity markets. Locally, over the last eight years, the Citadel Index (see graph below) has outperformed the All Bond Index, SA Cash and for the last seven years, residential property (although it's on par currently).The 2013 Citadel Art Price Index, which looks specifically at the More

Paddle8 Nets $6 Million From Team of Investors Including Damien Hirst

by Eileen Kinsella : Observers may continue to debate the viability and potential profitability of the online art sales space, but big money keeps flowing into it. And we mean big money. The latest announcement comes from virtual auction house Paddle8, which confirmed a total of $6 million in a new round of funding from a consortium of investors including art world luminaries Damien Hirst and White Cube gallery owner Jay Jopling, along with the Mellon family, Alexander von Furstenberg, international luxury brand Mousse Partners, and venture capital firm Founder Collective.More

SOUTH AFRICAN FINE ART AUCTIONS

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On Sunday 16 June 2013 at 11h00 am The Gallery at Grande Provence proudly presents the opening of the exhibitions ‘Tom Waits for No Man’ in The Gallery and ‘1969’ in The Project Room.

‘Tom Waits for No Man’ was arranged by Gordon Froud and is based on the success of his 2012 Leonard Cohen Altarpiece exhibition – ‘Altered Pieces’ - that was shown during June/July and the Bastille Festivities in 2012 at Grande Provence.
This year in the same timeslot, Gordon Froud extends his curative activities in the direction of cultural innovator and master songwriter, Tom Waits. The ‘Tom Waits for No Man’ exhibition incorporates the contributions of more than 100 acclaimed South African artists. The artworks are based on an LP sized circular format (app. 30cm. in diameter). No restrictions were placed on approach or materials and artists were free to use lyrics of their choice for inspiration.
The Project Room will feature a solo exhibition by Cape Town artist David Brits titled ‘1969’. The show’s title marks the year that Brits’ grandfather led a rescue mission to the most remotely inhabited place in the world, Gough Island - in the South Atlantic Ocean, where South Africa has maintained a weather station since 1956.
In an era of state-controlled media, over the weeks that the mission unfolded it was a highly publicized event, and for that short time the “Rescue to Gough Island” in many ways managed to capture South Africa’s collective imagination.
A collection of drawings based on a small family archive of personal photographs and newspaper clippings relating to that time, ‘1969’ offers us both a window into an unusual event from the past as well as a glimpse into the life of Brits’ grandfather, a man he hardly knew.
A Preview Dinner will take place on Saturday evening 15 June 2013 at 18h30 for 19h00 in The Gallery with the artists Gordon Froud, Diane Victor and David Brits in attendance. For reservations contact Barbara at reservations@grandeprovence.co.za or +27 (0)21 876 8600.
For further information or a preview please contact Carina at gallery@grandeprovence.co.za or +27 (0)21 876 8630 to make an appointment. The Gallery is open from Monday to Sunday, from 10h00 until 17h00.

Carina Bekker

(Curator) The Gallery at Grande Provence, Main Road, Franschhoek
gallery@grandeprovence.co.za www.grandeprovence.co.za

This weeks selected events

Red! The Gallery: Art Auction
Thursday 20 June 2013 : Time: 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Auctioneer: Phillip Powell: 60 pieces from our private & retail collection will be going under the hammer.
Artists include: Derric van Rensburg, Andrew Cooper, Michael Waters, David Kuijers, Wakaba Mutheki & many others.
Shop G9 Steenberg Village Shopping Centre, Reddam Avenue, Tokai
Email : red@redthegallery.co.za Phone: 021 7010886 www.redthegallery.co.za

Johans Borman Fine Art
Until - 12 July, ‘Allusions of Abstraction’, a selection of abstract works by SA Masters and Contemporary artists, including Walter Battiss, Pranas Domsaitis, May Hillhouse, Erik Laubscher and Douglas Portway, as well as Philip Barlow, Marlene von Dürckheim, Hussein Salim, Anton Chapman and Wehrner Lemmer.
16 Kildare Rd, Newlands, CT. T. 021 683 6863 www.johansborman.co.za

Casa Labia Gallery
Until - 21 July, ‘Portals’, by Anthea Delmotte. Walkabout (with some of the artists whose portraits are included in the show) on Sat 6 July, from 11am. Luncheon follows and will be at R90 per head. Booking essential.
Casa Labia Cultural Centre, 192 Main Rd, Muizenberg. T. 021 788 6068 www.casalabia.co.za

Pretoria Art Museum
Until 30 June, ‘!Kauru: Cultural Brokerage; Africa Imagined Act 1’, !Kauru provides a platform for African contemporary artists and cultural practitioners to showcase their art in five regions of Africa (South Gallery).
Cnr Frances Baard and Wessels Str, Arcadia Park, Arcadia, Pretoria. T.012 344 1807/8 www.pretoriaartmuseum.co.za

Kalk Bay Modern
Until 25 June, ‘Thinking Aloud’, paintings by Clare Menck, Alene Amaler-Raviv, Giovanna Biallo and Gerald Tabatha.
1st Floor, Olympia Buildings, 136 Main Rd, Kalk Bay. T.021 788 6571 www.kalkbaymodern.com

UJ Art Gallery
Until 26 June, ‘Behind the Ochre Curtain’, an exhibition by Craig Muller.
Cnr Kingsway & University Rd, Auckland Park, Jhb. T. 011 559 2099 www.uj.ac.za/artscentre

Absa Art Gallery
Until 27 June, an exhibition by Collen Maswanganyi.
Absa Towers North, 161 Main Str, Jhb. T. 011 350 5139 www.absa.co.za

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