siebrits site<\/a> is just about finished, and it’s already looking pretty classy… I like it when SA arts go live for the rest of the world to find! Woot.<\/p>\nSecond, as usual, Warren et al have put together a fine exhibition of some of South Africa’s staple artists, both during the struggle, and after. There are two main highlights about this exhibition, and they compliment one another greatly.<\/p>\n
The first is the curator’s uncanny ability to educate the public (including those supposedly “in the know,” I might add – god, I love his catalogues). The show is exhibiting mostly unknown works by aforementioned artists – and all done in watercolor, rather than the usually collected oil. Siebrits, on some level, talks about these pieces as unsung genius, claiming that one must differentiate between a masterpiece, and a work that simply bears an artist’s signature.<\/p>\n
The second thing I love is the element of surprise in this show. I went around guessing at who did what and when (based on the aesthetics I think I know in South African art), and was mostly wrong. (Norman Catherine and Malcolm Payne immediately come to mind….)<\/p>\n
See the show, and definitely get the catalogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
kentridge’s UNTITLED watercolor concertina, circa 1991 First, I gotta say that the siebrits site is just about finished, and it’s already looking pretty classy… I like it when SA arts go live for the rest of the world to find! Woot. 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