An event-packed weekend coming up As I wrote in my last blog, the upcoming week-end looks to be a very busy one, with several great events on offer. To quote Chris Thurman (Business Day 19th May): “Joburgers clear your calendars”. Open Studios With the decline of inner city Joburg over the last decade plus, many […]
Read More »Walter Oltmann’s exhibition Armour and Lace: a Bestiary at Goodman Gallery I’ve taken a very welcome enforced break after a hip-replacement just over 4 weeks ago. A week of lots of sleeping and binge-watching Britbox. being waited on hand and foot (literally) by the wonderful Liz at Lancaster team: Thank you Mr. T, Thandie and Catherine. It’s […]
Read More »Down the rabbit hole of “Word Woes“ Here I am at the beginning of 2022 about to start writing about curator Hélène Smuts’ walkabout of Willem Boshoff’s exhibition Word Woes at the Javett Art Centre in late 2021. After one sentence I already feel like Alice disappearing down the rabbit hole. This not in the original […]
Read More »Showcasing African art I first visited the Javett Art Centre in Pretoria 2 months BC (Before Covid) in January 2020 (it seems like a previous lifetime?) What a treat it was too, as the opening exhibition, 101 Collecting Conversations: Signature works of a Century, included many iconic South African works which often formed the focus […]
Read More »Jozi is exploding with green leaves, blossoms and art exhibitions. Here is a list of some of the art events … with 2 further afield in Pretoria. Paul Emmanuel at UJ Art Gallery until 2nd October “Substance of Shadows’’ is a culmination of 6 years work. Using the material of carbon ‘paper’, Emmanuel’s time-consuming, detailed, […]
Read More »Substance of Shadows Aesop’s aphorism “Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow’ is subverted by Emmanuel in the title of his latest exhibition “Substance of Shadows’’, a culmination of 6 years work. Using the material of carbon ‘paper’, Emmanuel’s time-consuming, detailed, painstaking technique; consummate skill; and deeply personal and […]
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