Sorry for the lack of posts whilst in SA. Just been too hektik on this visit home. It’s been so great, and I miss this place immensely… Old friends and colleagues… great art and passionate community builders… yadda yadda. Sitting in 44 Stanley making a quick post. Here’s a great photoset of images from the [...]
As usual a thorough post from Christo on our last Upgrade!Joburg, via the atjoburg site: The Collecting Digits Panel at Wits Digital Arts. From left to right, Franci Cronje, Warren Siebrits, Nathaniel Stern, and Clive Kellner. The first Upgrade! Johannesburg panel discussion brought together an exciting group of speakers to deal with the topic of [...]
the Upgrade! Johannesburg presents our first Panel Discussion: Collecting Digits Friday October 6, 2006 @ 3pm: Panel Discussion: Collecting Digits WSOA Digital Arts. Map: http://digitalarts.wits.ac.za/artworks/contact/map.htm This panel and discussion on the possibilities and problems with collecting new media art will include presentations by: Warren Siebrits – founder of one of Johannesburg’s most prestigious contemporary and [...]
The Mobile-with-no-name-yet is installed and the scaffolding of sixteen metres taken down. One can now see the total immensity of the task. But no photograph can do justice.. The officials in the Department of Science and Technology are all speculating whether this work hides little webcams to observe stray and lazy workers lurking in ‘corporate [...]
Gordon Froud has just completed installation on his ‘mobile’ in the new Department of Science and Technology building in Pretoria. The mobile (it still needs to be named) comprises the product of technology in general, objects ranging from kitchen utensils to scientific tools used in experimentation. Twelve metres in height, the installation was no mean [...]
some 40x40x40 works From Gordon Froud’s press release: The concept behind this show is to showcase 40 youngish artists from across the racial and sexual classifications in South Africa in such a way that the works create conversations … [It takes] 10 of each male and female, black and white artists and gets them to [...]
Brenton Maart chatting with Stern about the show, for a review in Art South Africa magazine I was at Outlet yesterday, discussing my Time and Seeing exhibition of Compressionist prints with Brenton Maart. Maart normally does the Gauteng art listings for the Mail & Guardian, but we met about this show for a small review [...]
A great number of sculptors rocked up, looking at the new site for the DST building. Thanks to everyone. If you could not make it and want to stay in the loop, just leave me a message on the comments page, and i will get back to you! Tags: art, art and tech, franci cronje, [...]
To everyone interested in this competition, please visit the site next week. for more info, go to the website: http://www.dst.gov.za/programmes/art%5Fcompetition/art%5Fcompetition.htm Tags: art, franci cronje, south african art, uncategorical
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 [...]
Hans Haacke, news, 1969 / 2005, at the state of the union show, Paula Cooper Gallery You may have noticed a little bit of playing by Thando Mama on the blog over the past few days, as he gets to know the WordPress software — he responded to the artthrob article about how I’ve been [...]
I first visited David Goldblatt’Äôs most recent works, shown at the Goodman Gallery, a few weeks ago. Being a photographer myself, I have known his works since I can remember. He started off in the fifties as being a documentary photographer but his work was soon appropriated by the fine art community as ’Äòmore than [...]
Pardon me for gushing, but Richard Smith’Äôs exhibition that opened at Constitution Hill Wednesday night, was a highlight for me. Andre Naude and I both walked away with the same word: inspiring, to say the least! Spanning over three of the rooms in the prison, the historical loadedness of the space also complemented the show’Äôs [...]
Note the Pretoria exhibition post, below, was the first from our new guest blogger, Franci Cronje. Link to her bio and photo is at right – let’s hope we hear more from her! Tags: franci cronje, south african art
People who have not yet heard about it, we are rejoicing here in Pretoria (Tshwane) because of a new SERIOUS gallery that opened its doors in Brooklyn recently. This promises to be a hub for cutting-edge contemporary art in our area, and we also like the look and feel of the place. Very classy and [...]
