Kevin Brand – Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Art Projects in Public Space 2008
R220A first monographic catalogue is devoted to Kevin Brand the prizewinner of the Mercedes-Benz Art Award for South African Art Projects in Public Space 2008.
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Life-Line Knot: Six Object Biography
R230A collection of esays about objects in the collection at Wits Art Museum, based on research by postgraduate History of Art students at the University of the Witwatersrand and their lecturers: Joni Brenner, Laura De Becker, Stacey Vorster and Justine Wintjes. This book accompanies the exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery.
“A particularly exciting and important aspect of this project is the reinvigoration of art history in a South African context. Through the association with Wits Art Museum, students have the privilege of doing original research with objects, of seeking links across disciplines and time-frames, and of finding new paths beyond western-tradition art historical practice” Anonymous peer reviewer
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Listening to a Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke
R1500Originally published by the Standard Bank as part of a curated exhibition in May 2011, this prestigious volume celebrates the life and works of Peter Clarke (1929-2014), one of South Africa’s foremost artists.
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Listening to a Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke (signed)
R2500Originally published by the Standard Bank as part of a curated exhibition in May 2011, this prestigious volume celebrates the life and works of Peter Clarke (1929-2014), one of South Africa’s foremost artists.
A mere 500 copies were originally published, all taken up at the exhibition.Signed by Philippa Hobbs, November 2014.
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Luan Nel (Malta Bella)
R400Luan Nel received his BAFA in 1993 and his Higher diploma in Education in 1994 from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In 1994 he won the Judges Prize in The Sasol New Signatures competition. In 1998 and 1999 he participated in the artist’s residency at The Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
If interested in reading more about this title, please follow link for book review by Art Times.
Publication was edited and designed by Brenton Maart.
Contributions by Alexandra Dodd, Wilhelm van Rensburg, Lloyd Pollack and Robyn Sassen. Interviews with Ilya Rabinovich, Mosheke Langa and Keval Harie
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Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall
R910Originally published in 2010 on the occasion of Against the Wall, Dumas’s first solo presentation at David Zwirner in New York, this much sought-after exhibition catalogue—which sold out shortly after publication—has been reprinted to coincide with the artist’s 2014–2015 European retrospective exhibition The Image as Burden, organized by Tate Modern, London in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Fondation Beyeler, Basel.
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Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals
R1890Marlene Dumas’s works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery.
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Nathaniel Stern: Call and Response
R50Call and Response is a solo exhibition of Compressionist prints, both digital and traditional, performatively produced with Lightworks Studios and at the David Krut Print Workshop, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Newspapers
R90The media as the medium. The medium is the message. These two propositions—the second from Marshall McLuhan—define the principal axes on which South African artist Siemon Allen (born 1971, Durban, South Africa) articulates his archivally-driven yet self-reflexive practice.
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Norman Catherine
R950Foreword by David Bowie. Norman Catherine is considered to be at the forefront of South African contemporary art with his rough-edged comical and nightmarish forms rendered in brash cartoon colours; his idiosyncratic visions and his dark cynicism and exuberant humour.
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On the Mines
R1615On the Mines is a redesigned and expanded version of David Goldblatt’s influential 1973 publication. There are 31 new mostly unpublished photos including color images, 11 deleted images, a postscript by Gordimer to her essay, as well as a text by Goldblatt reflecting on his childhood and the 1973 edition.
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Paul Emmanuel: Men and Monuments
R400For the past decade, in an ongoing project titled The Lost Men, renowned artist Paul Emmanuel has challenged conventions around war memorials. He has questioned which soldiers are memorialised and which are erased, and the stereotypes around soldiers and masculinity. Featuring artworks from his three iterations of The Lost Men, Paul Emmanuel Men and Monuments highlights vulnerability, an aspect of masculinity so often denied by history and society.
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Positions : Contemporary artists in South Africa
R400Ranging from resistance to education, contemporary artists are increasingly raising opposition to economic pressure, radical social change and rapidly changing identities. How does the local contemporary art scene respond to the worldwide dynamics of globalisation? Which social, political and cultural positions do individual artists adopt? This volume presents views of some of South Africa’s most prominent artists, writers, choreographers, photographers and musicians. Produced in direct dialogue with journalists and cultural scientists from the respective art scenes, developments within today’s cultural flashpoints are illuminated in interviews, portraits and essays.
Throughout, the focus is on the artists’ individual perspectives, not theoretical or historical concepts, with their specific approaches and different forms of expression they give insight into the pressing issues of South African society, showing how political art is positioned in the post-apartheid era.
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Some Afrikaners Revisited, David Goldblatt
R1300The work of David Goldblatt – as recipient of the 2006 Hasselblad Foundation Award undoubtedly South Africa’s most prominent active photographer – reflects a life-long exploration of the relationship between individual South Africans and the society they live in. His first extended photographic essay was compiled in the 1960s. When it was finally published in 1975 as Some Afrikaners Photographed, the book created quite a stir locally. Eventually most of the small print-run had to be sold off for a song.
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Steven Cohen: put your heart under your feet…and walk!
R360This catalogue accompanies Steven Cohen’s first exhibition at Stevenson Johannesburg – an intense meditation on loss, grief and absence, following the death of his partner and artistic collaborator, the dancer Elu.
