{"id":770,"date":"2005-09-14T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2005-09-14T09:06:39","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T07:06:39","slug":"ruan-hoffmann-i-theresa-anne-mackintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/ruan-hoffmann-i-theresa-anne-mackintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruan Hoffmann and Theresa-Anne Mackintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruan Hoffmann + Theresa-Anne Mackintosh at the Franchise Gallery, 44 Stanley, Johannesburg
\nRuan Hoffmann & Theresa-Anne Mackintosh at the Franchise Gallery, 44 Stanley, Johannesburg<\/small><\/p>\n

This is a tight show and a real lesson in creating an enveloping space for your work – I’ve never seen Franchise<\/a> like this before…. The two creators have quirky styles and work hard to “brand” their art in ways absolutely necessary in today’s world.<\/p>\n

Ruan Hoffman’s plates and vases are beautifully made, have interesting designs, and would go nicely in my home. Admittedly, I’ve heard he’s a young ‘un – and I’ve never seen his name before this show – so I think he might have priced them a bit high for now. Still, given the area, and the style he makes them in, it just might be working (didn’t ask).<\/p>\n

Mackintosh, on the other hand, has work with an aesthetic somewhere between Japanime and Barney, but with her own little design-y twist around questions of beauty and distinction. It’s fun, cute, trendy and easy to live with – more than 2\/3rds of her “babies” (pictured) have already sold since the show’s opening on Friday (but she should give me one for free, just because). I remember meeting Theresa-Anne ages ago at GordArt, and her name has been thrown around a lot since then – it’s nice to see how hard she’s been working, the versatility of her media.
\nTheresa-Anne Mackintosh’s site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruan Hoffmann & Theresa-Anne Mackintosh at the Franchise Gallery, 44 Stanley, Johannesburg This is a tight show and a real lesson in creating an enveloping space for your work – I’ve never seen Franchise like this before…. The two creators have quirky styles and work hard to “brand” their art in ways absolutely necessary in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-cq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":777,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/16\/new-south-african-linkages\/","url_meta":{"origin":770,"position":0},"title":"new south african linkages","author":"nathaniel","date":"16 September 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"ralph borland matt hindley theresa anne mackintosh physicalcomputing.co.za ccmixter (creative commons SA, make music!) are you a south african artist, gallerist or dealer with a web site? gimme, and i'll post it - even link to it permanently (at right)! bonus: i am also still looking for more contributors to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "creative commons"","block_context":{"text":"creative commons","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/old-categories\/creative-commons\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1563,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/08\/two-shows-im-in-on-south-africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":770,"position":1},"title":"two shows i’m in on South Africa","author":"nathaniel","date":"08 December 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Just found out that Art on Paper Gallery, who I often work with in Johannesburg, has been workin it for me a bit. 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