implicit art

it seems that heads are heading to cape town this weekend for the sessions ekapa.
will be coming out from my hide out to join the masses this summer and will try to get some pics whilst there.
i don’t know about the Jozi dudes but cape town seems to be getting a lot of slices of the art world of mzantsi.
is cape town the new big thing and are cape town artist now the big deal? Are cape town artists and galleries in?all eyes on ekapa!!

photo by karen bradtke who runs the wonderful artspace gallery in durban
contact her at artspace_durban@yahoo.com

I’m off to Budapest this afternoon (for a week before I’m back in Jozi), and my last night in NYC was a hoot. I saw most of the old’s cool from ITP, between my visit there (Bronwyn was impressed with their work), and a “holding court” event on the LES (Lower East Side); did a run in the Empire State Building, macc’ed with some Shaoliners, and even did a final round with the SA art sceners displaced to NYC (Bron, Si, Amy, Sean, myself).

For Bronwyn’s b-day, we hit up Whiskey Ward for some nice drinks, then Ghenet for yummy Ethiopian. A realization struck me in all of this: Johannesburg is now my home. Yes, NYC will always be some kind of welcoming space, “a home, if not my home” - but my visits here seem more and more to be only that: visits. I never stay long enough to feel at ease, safe, right. I love Jozi and SA, and many of the things they have to offer (and I’ve no choice but to take the bad with the good), but I sigh deeply as I start to mourn the loss of my birthplace - and this goes double because it’s none other than the NYC! Perhaps it’ll be mine one day again….

P.S. - oh, and i changed the color palette of the whole site. if it looks weird (and not just weird because it is no longer yellow, but there are odd errors in layout or color scheme), you can force an empty cache in your browser preferences, then restart your browser, and it should look fine again (tho white). hope you like it!

more great art by dick tuinder on
www.dicktuinder.com
and
www.sallydewinter.com

Hi, I’m Bronwyn Lace, a friend of Nathaniel’s, I’ve decided to become a guest blogger, this is easier said than done, at this moment I’m discovering that writing ones first blog is a somewhat harrowing experience, bare with me.

If you don’t already know, Simon Gush and I have been in New York for the last three and a bit weeks, and for most of that time we’ve been staying with Nathaniel and his folks. ( An expereince that needs to be blogged all on its own.) Our main mission while here has been to see as much art as possible, when you spend so much time moving from one gallery/museum to another your memory tends to blur many of the works, names and concepts into one another. However there are some artists that have completely blown me away. Walter De Maria is my new idol. I’m embarrassed to say that until yesterday I did not know his work, Simon says he’s extremely well known, but then again all art is extremely well known to Simon, the walking ‘Encyclopedia of the Arts’. So yesterday we hit the larny side of Soho where two of De Maria’s more well known installations are situated. Images, titles and dimensions of the two works are below, all I’d like to add is that standing in front of the works is an incredible experience, the smell of the earth, the silence of the space, the scale of both works all come together to form installations that are difficult to imagine in any other form. Lastly, De Maria made these pieces before I was born… ( and I think my parents don’t get me!)

the new york earth room, 1977
250 cubic yards of earth
3,600 square feet of floor space
127300 kilos

the broken kilometer, 1979
500 solid brass rods
spaces between rods increase by 5 millimeters with each consecutive space

unknown photographer