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  • Breyten Breytenbach: The 81 ways of letting go a late self

    R300

    While a South African audience might be more familiar with Breytenbach as a writer, he initially studied at the Michaelis School of Art. Breytenbach held his first solo exhibition of paintings in 1964, the same year he published his first volume of poems (Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet) and his first book of prose (Katastrofes). It took place at Galerie Espace in Amsterdam, where Breytenbach shared the roster with Karel Appel and Francesco Clemente, among others.

  • Cy Twombly: A Retrospective

    R600

    This rewarding catalogue of a MOMA retrospective exhibition covers the full spectrum of Twombly’s art, from spare white-on-gray paintings to fragile clay sculpture to the epic pictures inspired by Homer’s Trojan War.

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    Gary Schneider, Handbook of South African Artists

    R150

    In 2011, on a trip to South Africa for an exhibition, Gary Schneider began a series of handprint portraits of South African artists. Having grown up in South Africa, which he left in 1977 at the age of twenty-three, Schneider realised that this would not be an overview of South African art but rather a way to reconnect with a country that still has an enormous influence on his work.

  • Luan Nel (Malta Bella)

    R400

    Luan 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

  • Roger Ballen: End of the Game

    R500

    The exhibition chronicles the practice of unrestrained hunting which has contributed to the ecological devastation we are currently facing.

  • Steven Cohen: put your heart under your feet…and walk!

    R360

    This 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.

  • Animated Painting – San Diego Museum of Art

    R350

    Illustrated with approximately 235 color images and packaged with a DVD of selected videos, Animated Painting brings together some of the most compelling recent contemporary art to combine traditional conceptions of painting and drawing with the techniques and time-based elements of animation.

  • Ant Farm 1968 – 1978

    R340

    This richly illustrated book, created to accompany the traveling exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating critical overview of Ant Farm, the radical architecture collective that brought us Cadillac Ranch, Media Burn, and The Eternal Frame.

  • Audrey Ngcaba – Generations and Regeneration

    R150

    Audrey Ngcaba worked as a nurse for 36 years in the public health system in South Africa. At the age of fifty-five, Ngcaba decided to take an early retirement after an ongoing frustration with her working environment. “I retired early because of insufficient human resources. There were not enough materials to work with, no gloves, no fluids for putting up drips. I tried for years and years but couldn’t work under theses conditions…When I retired I thought I’ve done my part. I’ve compromised and improvised up to a point…and then I had enough.”

  • Candice Breitz: Extra!

    R250

    Candice Breitz: Extra! is the first significant survey exhibition of Breitz’s work on South African soil.

  • Conrad Botes: Cain and Abel

    R80

    Conrad Botes’ exhibition, titled ‘Cain and Abel’, is a reflection on the origins of violence, a return to the very first tale of murder as related in the Bible and Qu’ran, as if to grapple with the notion of aggression itself. The story was translated into a gritty black and white comic published in Bitterkomix…

  • Elad Lassry – White Cube

    R400

    Over the past few years, through photographs, films and sculpture, as well as interventions in the gallery space, Lassry has developed a reputation for the wit and rigour of his investigations into how we perceive and conceive pictures. In Hong Kong, Lassry presented a varied body of work, including pictures, sculptures and a drawing, as well as perversely hybrid objects that radically question the distinction between these media.

  • Foam Along the Waterline: Works by Virginia MacKenny

    R200

    Foam Along the Waterline is a catalogue published to accompany Virginia MacKenny’s solo exhibition of paintings and etchings at the University of Cape Town Irma Stern Museum in September/October 2008.

  • Form Matters

    R340

    David Chipperfield, one of the most important architects at work in the world today, is known for his subtle and sophisticated buildings. This book, published to accompany the major exhibition at Londons Design Museum, spans his entire career to date, examining a range of projects through new and archive models, sketches, drawings, photographs and film.

  • Franz West

    R600

    An anarchic free spirit, self-taught until the age of thirty, Franz West (1947–2012) remained in the shadows of the Viennese art scene for nearly fifteen years before becoming known in the international art world in the 1980s.

  • Gary Hume: American Tan

    R330

    Catalog bound in stiff wraps titled GARY HUME:American Tan (Gloss, Charcoal, Bronze, Marble). Published by White Cube, London to accompany the Exhibition Gary Hume:American Tan, 5 September – 6 October 2007.