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  • Anthea Moys: At my own risk

    R115

    This exhibition catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘At my own risk’ at the Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg

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    Don’t Kiss Me: Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

    R500

    Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were an extraordinary couple who worked and lived together for more than 40 years. Cahun and Moore were the pseudonyms for Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who met in their teens and embarked on their unique relationship. They travelled from provincial Nantes to the hot-house atmosphere of Paris and finally to Jersey, where they found the space and freedom to develop their ideas but where they were to suffer imprisonment during the Nazi occupation for their Resistance activities.

  • I Make Art

    R250

    I Make Art restages John Baldessari’s I am Making Art (1971) following his 1970 Class Assignments (Optional) to ‘Imitate Baldessari in Actions and Speech. Video’.  Baldessari’s gestural playfulness, copied, repeated and appropriated by a South African woman artist, becomes a strained signifier of accumulated otherness in its repetitious shorthand indexing of Western art categorisations: I Make African ArtI Make Contemporary Arab ArtI Make CraftI Make Feminist ArtI Make Performance ArtI Make Digital ArtI Make Protest ArtI Make Interdisciplinary ArtI Make Deconstructive Art.

  • Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit

    R800

    The first properly posthumous retrospective on the artist, this paperback exhibition book highlights the significance of Mike Kelley’s influential four-decade career on the development of art since the 1970s.

  • When the moon waxes red…

    R250

    Published in 2019, When the moon waxes red: Negotiating Subjective Terrain as an ‘Inside-Outsider’, an ‘Outside-Insider’  accompanies the exhibition of the same name.

  • Art of Change – New Directions From China

    R390

    Amongst a host of exhibitions and books surveying ‘New Art from China’, this title stands out as a uniquely focused investigation of Chinese sculpture and installation. Exploring the work of a small number of artists, Liang Shaoji, Wang Jianwei, Xu Zhen/MadeIn Company, Gu Dexin, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Chen Zhen, Yingmei Duan  and illustrating their most powerful and engaging works, this book traces a very particular seam of performative Chinese art from the late 1980s to the present.

  • Haunted – Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance

    R600

    Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world.

  • Philippe Parreno: The Hyundai Commission – Anywhen

    R340

    Since Tate Modern opened in London in 2000, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, reaching an audience of millions. The way artists have interpreted this vast industrial space has revolutionized public perceptions of contemporary art in the 21st century. Philippe Parreno (b. 1964) is…

  • Richard Wilson – Tate Modern Artist Series

    R150

    The work of Richard Wilson (b.1953) often comes closer to engineering or even architecture than it does to traditional sculpture. Typically he transforms the viewer’s environment into something unsettling and strange by the interventions he makes, whether in the internal space of a gallery, the structure of a building or in one of the ships with which he has a particular affinity.
    Perhaps Wilson’s best-known work is 20:50 for which he flooded a gallery space with